Engineering Overview

 
 
  Design Capability  
 

Military Experience With High-Efficiency Switch-Mode Converter

>200 kHz Converter Operation

Half And Full Bridge For Off Line

Buck And Boost

FET Power Switching

Magnetic Amplifier Post-Regulators For Higher Power

Linear Post Regulators For Low Power Outputs

 

Spacecraft Experience With Inherent Radiation Hard Topologies

Current-fed Push-Pull

Current-fed Forward

Current-fed Flyback

 

System Enhancements

Built-In Test Signals

Redundancy

Control And Status Input/Output

 

Conservative Mechanical Design

Full Thermal Analysis, Modeling, Thermal Mapping

Analysis And Testing For Dynamic And Other Environments

Hybrids, Surface Mount And Special Packages For High Density

 

Established EMI Control Procedures

Full EMI Filtering

Functional Partitioning And Extensive Shielding

 
 
  Radiation Hardness Design  
 

Experience With Long Term Radiation Levels

Designs To Work Through Single Level Upsets

Neutron, Prompt Gamma, Total Dose And EMP

Shielding Analysis Including Effect Of Spacecraft

Tradeoff Between Case Shielding And Component Shielding

 

Special Protection Against SGEMP

Case Material Selection

Low Z Coated Internal Surfaces

 

Extensive Radiation Database On Components

 

 

Component Testing And Circuit Analysis

Results Of Special Characterization Tests Incorporated In Survivability Analysis

 

Hardness Verification Testing

Electronic Box Level

System Level

 

Hardness Assurance

Lot Sampling Of Production Units

Neutron / Total Dose / Dose Rate / Latch-Up

 
 
  Computer Aided Design  
 

Electronic Design

P-Spice For Circuit Simulation

Syscap With View Logic For Circuit Simulation, Including Radiation Effects

 

Mechanical Design

T-Snap For Thermal Analysis

NISA Finite Element Analysis, Including Stress, Vibration, Shock And Thermal

 
 
  Engineering Documentation and Control  
 

Documentation Preparation

Running AutoCad R13 And PADS Power PCB

Drawing Standards To MIL-STD-100 And MIL-T-31000

Babcock Internal Procedures Covering

Documentation System (DE-116) And Drawing

Preparation (DE-108)

 

Documentation Control

Babcock Documentation Control And Configuration Management Meets MIL-STD-973

Drawing Release And "Controlled" Distribution Covered By DE-105 And DE-114

Drawing Change Procedures Covered By DE-100, DE-101 And DE-110

 
 
 
   

Engineering Overview

     

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