In Electronics Maker Peregrine’s product applications engineer Greg Horvath and high-reliability product manager Anup Singh share a tutorial on “Creating Smaller, More Versatile Power-Management Systems for Space and Defense Applications.” The article covers the growing popularity of rad-hard, DC-to-DC converters, such as Point-of-Load (POL) buck regulators, to maintain highly-reliable and highly-efficient operation in harsh space environments. Topics range from radiation requirements — total ionizing dose, enhanced low dose rate sensitivity and single event effects — and design versatility to FGPA power management.
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