1% regulation DC/DCs power demanding loads

New Products | October 5, 2017

By eeNews Europe

Power Management Batteries / Power Supplies

With power densities of up to 1,032 W/in³, these devices offer an option for directly driving loads that require tightly regulated output voltages. Vicor’s current family of DCMs in a ChiP package offers up to ±3% regulation and can also be paralleled into arrays for higher power delivery.

The ChiP DCM can operate from a wide-range unregulated input to generate an isolated DC output. With its high frequency zero-voltage switching (ZVS) topology, the DCM converter delivers high efficiency across its entire input voltage range.

This series of DCMs are initially offered with 28V, 270V, and 275V nominal input voltages. These products are aimed at a variety of defence and industrial applications that require tighter output voltage regulation – these include, UAV, ground vehicle, radar, transportation and industrial controls. All these families are available in M-Grade, which provides operation down to -55°C.

The converters are part of Vicor’s Power Component Design Methodology; the added parts with enhanced output voltage regulation are shown in the table;

Nominal Input Voltage	Package	Input Voltage Range	Output Voltage
Nominal Input Voltage	Package	Input Voltage Range	3.3V	5V	12V	15V	24V	28V	48V
28V	3623 ChiP (1.52 x 0.90 x 0.29 in)	16 – 50V	120W	180W	320W		320W	320W	320W
270V	4623 ChiP (1.89 x 0.90 x 0.29 in)	160 – 420V		250W	500W	500W		500W
275V	4623 ChiP (1.89 x 0.90 x 0.29 in)	120 – 420V		190W	375W		375W	375W	375W