Solid-State Data Recorder  

Irvine Sensors Corporation 

Costa Mesa, CA 

Three dimensional, solid state, multi-ported memory system that provides faster processing speeds, higher of integration, and lower power requirements than conventional chip sets

• Three dimensional cubing process reduces dramatically the size and weight of memory-intensive instruments
• Engineered a stack the size of a sugar cube to replace a PC's main circuit board
• Developed Memory Short Stack^{TM which consists of memory chips in a "pancake stack" configuration}

• Two licensing agreements and a joint development agreement with IBM for several related products
• The firm's patented, SBIR-funded 3D silicon stacking process is now used for DRAM, SRAM, and Flash Memory modules, with other high density stacked products in development
• Commercialization product sales of $2M in 1995, $6 M in 1996, and projected 1997 revenues of $8 M
 

• First spaceborne short stacks are part of the Lockheed Sanders solid state recorder aboard the Chilean Air Force satellite launched in August 1995
• Scheduled for flight in SSTI Lewis mission and Landsat 7 solid state data recorder
• Phase II program in progress that will combine detectors and memory and result in imaging short stacks for electronic still cameras
 

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