Universal ASIC for Low C-SWaP INS

A universal ASIC, iWCA1001, for navigation grade inertial sensors and a Navigation System on Chip (NSoC™) integration architecture is presented to greatly increase the production scale and radically reduce the cost, size, weight and power of integrated inertial navigation systems for any terrestrial application, with efficient extensions for space radiation (1Mrad) environments. Given the laboratory demonstration of navigation- or near-navigation grade inertial MEMS and compact sensors with performance suitable for high volume commercial and military applications, the emergence of high-yield precision MEMS fabrication platforms with thick device layers, wafer level vacuum packaging [3] and flexible substrates, such a universal compact electronics approach for low C-SWaP navigation grade sensors, IMUs and INSs is feasible and timely.