Silicon Designs Announces Immediate Availability of Complete Aerospace Testing Portfolio
April 25, 2021 – Kirkland, Washington, USA – Silicon Designs, Inc. (www.SiliconDesigns.com), a leading designer and manufacturer of highly rugged commercial- and inertial-grade MEMS capacitive accelerometer chips and modules for zero-to-medium frequency instrumentation applications, today announced the immediate availability of its complete product portfolio for aerospace testing, including inertial navigation systems.
As both a 100% veteran-owned small business and an entirely U.S.-based manufacturer, Silicon Designs has supported both government and private-business aerospace programs since 1983. The company was founded, in large part, thanks to R&D funding it was awarded under a U.S. Small Business Administration Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant. With it, Silicon Designs began immediately designing, developing, and manufacturing custom MEMS capacitive accelerometer
MOSA has momentum The new Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) opens the doors to more innovative possibilities, as Paul Garnett explains.
The last couple of years have seen the US and UK military adopt open architectures as the preferred alternative to custom and proprietary electronics technology designs. The Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Initiative was first introduced in 1994 but, arguably, the real paradigm shift took place in 2019, when the U.S. DoD issued a memorandum mandating the use of the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) for all weapons systems going forward and which was then made law, requiring all defence acquisition programs (MDAP) to be designed and developed using a MOSA.