California Defense Ready Electronics and Microdevices Superhub (California DREAMS)

California DREAMS will accelerate the prototyping of RF technologies and processes for 5G/6G and EW. Our hub includes premier compound-semiconductor labs and DOD-volume fabs in Southern California, with core facilities and workforce development partners throughout the country. MOSIS 2.0 will provide brokerage and engineering services to hub users that will dramatically increase innovation through promoting lab-to-fab transitions, reducing barriers to prototyping, and reducing fabrication cycle times.

California Defense Ready Electronics and Microdevices Superhub (California DREAMS)

Stephen Crago

Associate Director at Information Sciences Institute

University of Southern California

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Technology Areas Supported by the Hub

5G/6G Technology
Electromagnetic Warfare

Hub Project Awards

  • Electromagnetic Warfare ($16.2M) 
    • GaN Amplifier Prototypes Targeting Microwave to Submillimeter-wave Frequency Spectrum
      • The award aims to mature advanced gallium nitride (GaN) technology to enable broad-spectrum, high power, and high efficiency solutions for future DoD EW systems. The project will develop GaN amplifier chipsets from the microwave to the sub-millimeter wave frequency spectrum making advancements at the semiconductor-device, the integrated circuit, and the package level.
  • 5G/6G ($15.7M) 
    • AmmP3 – Accelerated mmW Phased Array Prototyping
      • The award will support the development 5G/6G-relevant prototypes to accelerate availability of high-performance front ends, including phased array antennas, beamforming integrated circuits (ICs), and broadband amplifiers integrated using state-of-the-art (SOTA) advanced (2.5D and 3D heterogeneous integration [HI]) packaging for leading-edge size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C) systems.

California DREAMS Hub Member List

Boeing
Caltech
Global Foundries
HRL
Lockheed Martin
Monde Wireless
Morgan State University
North Carolina A&T
Northrop Grumman Corporation
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PseudolithIC
Raytheon
Teledyne
Transphorm
UC-Irvine
UCLA
UC-Riverside
UCSB
UCSD
USC
VORAGO