Designers working in defence and aerospace are seeing increasing pressure to work on faster design cycles and build greater flexibility into the end products.
Author: Christian Jonglas
Christian Jonglas holds a master's degree in electronics.
He spent 17 years in the telecom industry, working successively as an RF test engineer,
a failure mode analysis engineer, and an applications engineer. He joined Gaïa Converter in 2011 as a Customer Support Manager and Field Application Engineer.
In this role, Christian develops power architectures to help customers integrate Gaïa Converter products into their projects successfully.
He has also authored several application notes to support the product line.
Targeted to military and avionics systems, the FLHG-60, a 60W input bus conditioner is designed to simplify and optimize power architectures
GAÏA Converter, a leading provider of power conversion solutions, announces the launch of the FLHG-60, an innovative module designed to meet the stringent requirements of military and avionics applications.
Gaia’s Quarter-Brick Series DC/DC power modules are designed for Hi-Rel Military,
Aerospace, and Industrial applications and provide output power levels ranging
from 75W to 250W.
GAIA’s HUGD Series of Hold-up modules are an alternative solution to the use of batteries or bulk capacitors to negate problems related to momentary input bus drop-outs as required by Mil-Std-704, DO-160 or ABD100.
As a fast-moving sector engaged in a strategy of continuous optimisation of design and manufacture, the electronics sector continually faces the prospect of older components and subsystems being obsoleted by newer products and removed from the supply chain.
The PSDG-48 Series is a fully integrated COTS multi-output 48W isolated power supply board mount module. Dedicated to 24 & 28VDC military and High Reliability applications, the power module meets MIL- STD-461, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-1275, ABD100 and DO160 power supply requirements.
The MPGS-14 point of load series designates a family of non-isolated buck type point of load (PoL) power modules with a permanent ultra wide input voltage range of 4.75 – 36 volts.
Increasingly, military vehicles are provisioned with electronics for control, communications, navigation and display systems. DC-DC converters provide auxiliary power for these systems but can be subject to high electrical and environmental stress in the application. This article outlines the stress levels defined by the common standards used and identifies the specifications that DC-DC converters need to meet.
Electric Vertical Take-Off and Land (eVTOL) aircraft for freight and passenger use are a natural progression from the drone technology that is now commonplace. However, reliability in these new applications is a prime consideration and core to this is maintenance of power to flight control and navigation electronics under fault conditions. In this article we look at some auxiliary DC power supply architectures, their characteristics and practical implementations for high reliability and availability.