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Technologies That Defied The Odds
Jack Browne , Nov 2011

(excerpt)  … HYPRES, Inc. (Elmsford, NY), has made numerous advances in low-temperature superconducting components and systems, earning several contracts from the US Department of Defense (DoD). For example, HYPRES’ model HYDR-01 digital RF receiver is designed to operate at 4.2 K cooled by a commercial cryocooler. … Most recently, HYPRES demonstrated the world’s fastest arithmetic logic unit (ALU), a digital superconducting IC fabricated within the firm’s foundry capable of 8-b resolution at 20 GHz. …

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Westchester County Business Journal
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High-tech anatomy
Advanced technology manufacturers count on government grants and venture capital to productize.
Kelly Liyakasa | Oct 14, 2011

(Excerpt)
Millions.

That’s the dollar total it takes to turn an idea into just a prototype of a chip that will eventually power your smartphone or help diagnose your sports injury via the next-generation MRI. Securing enough capital to take an invention from the laboratory to the production line is the most common hurdle for an advanced technology company to leap. For HYPRES, an Elmsford-based developer of digital superconductor technology, and others, it could take $900,000 or more to go from design to prototype.

… U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., at a recent news conference at HYPRES headquarters, noted that “of the 250,000 computer and electronic manufacturing jobs in upstate New York, 44 percent are from the most advanced technology areas.”

… Among Democratic House sponsors of the Made in America competitive grant program, Gillibrand said block grant recipients, small to medium-size businesses in communities with demonstrated high unemployment, would get assistance retrofitting facilities or retraining workers.

… “It’s important that we bring attention to the fact that small operations like this really need to be supported,” Hitt said. “Next-generation supercomputers are going to come from chips that are designed here …the next-generation MRI, everything you want your iPhone to do, will be assisted by technology being developed here.”

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“We’re very excited about the critical support the Made in America Block Grant program will provide to energy efficient, high speed computing manufacturing, such as here at HYPRES,” said Richard Hitt, CEO, HYPRES. “This little known, one-of-a-kind digital superconductor chip foundry in New York State is a good example of US critical technology that must be protected.”

Numerous local dignitaries, business/economic leaders, and members of the media attended the Senator’s announcement on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011. HYPRES officials provided tours of its premier, commercial foundry for digital superconductor chips, discussed its latest technical advancements related to communications, MRI and advanced computing, and provided insight to the positive impact the block grant program could provide to the company.

For more information on the Made in America program, visit: http://gillibrand.senate.gov/agenda/item/?id=5bdabb7b-fe73-4c92-9d04-abea0d85a4a2

Read media coverage of the Made in America announcement at:
http://www.thedailygreenburgh.com/neighbors/gillibrand-brings-manufacturing-plan-county
http://www.lohud.com/article/20111008/NEWS02/110080328/Sen-Kirsten-Gillibrand-Rep-Nita-Lowey-tout-Made-America-grant-plan-Elmsford-superconducting-chip-plant
http://bedford.patch.com/articles/legislation-aims-to-boost-american-manufacturing-industry-video
http://www.thedailygreenburgh.com/neighbors/elmsford-company-hopes-change-world-add-jobs

 As CMOS reaches its energy efficiency limits, there has been an increasing focus on faster and low power core digital logic—such as digital superconductor electronics—capable of being the building block of high-end computing into the next century.  Digital superconductor single flux quantum electronics are capable of providing tens-of-gigahertz processor speeds, without the increasingly high power dissipation of CMOS.  The 8-bit ALU circuit and other digital superconductor circuits created by the HYPRES-Stony Brook team have proven that the relationship between speed and dissipated power has been redefined.

 Growing demands for high-end computing and secure networking are driving the need for both higher clock speeds and energy efficiency,” said Oleg Mukhanov, Ph.D., senior vice president and general manager at HYPRES. “Digital superconductor electronics are ideally suited to provide the required performance and energy efficiencies needed to realize these next generation systems,” explained Dr. Mukhanov, co-inventor of the new digital single flux quantum logic.

 In the development of the ALU chip, Stony Brook professor Mikhail Dorojevets, Ph.D., and his team from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, developed a new asynchronous wave-pipelined processor micro-architecture and a complete cell-level ALU design scalable to 32 and 64-bit processing. The team at HYPRES developed the physical chip design, fabricated and experimentally verified the ALU operation at high speed.

 “This exciting collaboration between the HYPRES and Stony Brook teams has opened the door to a new level of digital superconductor processor performance,” said Dr. Mukhanov. “We are steadily driving this technology into the realm of practical applications.”      

 HYPRES and Stony Brook will continue to collaborate in this effort, working toward new milestones in gigahertz rates for the digital processing circuits.

Mr. Levy has more than 30 years of technology operations and financial experience, and was a founding partner of L Capital Partners, a $160 million early stage venture capital fund focused on advancing companies that feature the potential to bring groundbreaking products to market.

“The core digital superconductor electronics technology and the innovative algorithms and software being developed by HYPRES provide an outstanding high performance platform,” said Mr. Levy. “I’m very excited about the opportunity to help guide the Company’s expansion into new markets.  The technology and special expertise of the HYPRES team has tremendous potential in several markets.”

Most recently, HYPRES has been active in developing a solution for wireless carriers to deliver high performance, resource-effective 4G mobile broadband. The Company has developed a ground-breaking software solution that combines 4G with 3G signals, producing greater network capacity that is fully compatible with existing and future radio standards and architectures. The Company also has efforts underway to increase the performance and reduce the scan times of MRI devices currently in the field based on the industry’s fastest analog-to-digital circuits. Finally, the Company continues to move forward with projects and funding related to developing digital superconductor-based energy efficient, high performance computing solutions for a variety of critical government and commercial applications.

At L Capital Partners, Mr. Levy led investments in the technology sector with particular focus on semiconductors, signal processing, and mobile communications.  In 2010, Mr. Levy became Chairman of BioLite, a distributed energy company focusing on markets in the developing world. Mr. Levy also has served as a partner in the Shalom Equity Fund, a seed stage, technology oriented fund operating in the United States and Israel.  He also has served as founding CEO of ePlanet, a computer vision company funded by Interval Research Corp., a Palo Alto-based think tank sponsored by Paul Allen and Intel Corp. Before that he was a general partner of Ariel Securities Corp., a NASD-licensed broker/dealer specializing in venture capital and media-based investments.

As a result of their unparalleled sensor and computing capabilities, the company’s ICs feature extreme performance benefits for applications including mobile networking, instrumentation, metrology, medical imaging, and advanced computing.

HYPRES offers its high density, niobium-based, digital superconductor ICs on GSA Schedule 70— General Purpose Commercial Information Technology Equipment, Software and Services.  The ICs, which can feature more than 12,000 Josephson junctions per standard chip, can be viewed and ordered on GSA Advantage!®.

The GSA provides centralized procurement for the federal government and offers products, services, and facilities that federal agencies need to serve the public, connecting them with more than 11 million commercial firms and discounted pricing opportunities.

HYPRES has been developing and producing digital superconductor electronics since 1983 and today serves as the leading commercial foundry for niobium-based digital superconductor circuits. Customers include United States government agencies, national laboratories and private companies.

Recently, the company also was approved to offer its Primary Voltage Standard chip arrays through the GSA. The arrays, developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), provide voltage calibration for national laboratories, standards organizations and universities, and calibration of secondary voltage standard systems worldwide.

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About Hypres
Hypres, Inc., formed in 1983, develops and commercializes superconductor electronics that provide unparalleled economic and performance advantages for government and commercial wireless markets, and a host of other applications. Hypres’ technology is widely recognized as the leading solution to achieve a single RF system that is interoperable across all required waveforms and spectrum ranges.  Headquartered in Elmsford, New York, Hypres is globally recognized as the leader in digital superconducting technology with the most accomplished team of superconductor specialists in the world. Hypres has delivered more different and complex superconductor circuits than any other institution worldwide. For more information, please visit us at www.hypres.com.

EDITORIAL CONTACT:
Karen Vaillancourt
914-592-1190, ext. 7794
karenv@hypres.com

Ken Zeszutko
Zeszutko Corp on behalf of Hypres
321-637-7080
zeszutko@hypres.com

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