MODULAR SOUTIONS FOR POWER SYSTEMS
Vicor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets modular power components and complete power systems based upon a portfolio of patented technologies. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Vicor sells its products to the power systems market, including enterprise and high-performance computing, industrial equipment and automation, telecommunications and network infrastructure, vehicles and transportation, aerospace and defense.
Solutions & Services
Complete Radiation-Tolerant COTS Solution with Factorized Product Architecture™
Instead of the conventional, intermediate power-distribution comprising an isolated DC‑DC followed by buck bricks, Vicor Corporation’s patented Factorized Power Architecture (FPA™) uses a modular approach to minimize I2R distribution losses, maximize efficiency and improve transient response.
Vicor’s rad-tolerant modular approach to power delivery provides protection from radiation while still providing the highest power density in the industry, in addition to being ultra-flexible and scalable in their architecture and implementation. These features are especially important in applications such as on-board satellite processing, earth observation, disaster management, space debris retrieval and defense operations.Vicor Radiation-Tolerant Power Modules
Evaluation Boards
Spirit is now offering evaluation boards for Vicor radiation-tolerant power modules that enable the ideal power delivery network (PDN) for today’s LEO and MEO satellites, providing high-efficiency, high-density, low-noise voltage conversion to power advanced network communication ASICs, FPGAs and processors.
The growing trend toward leveraging AI and machine learning on orbit requires higher-performance processors with challenging power delivery requirements. Traditional, intermediate bus architectures comprising of an isolated DC-DC conversion stage, followed by a multi-phase buck array, cannot achieve the power density and low noise required for advanced processors. The patented Vicor FPA solution, which has achieved flight heritage, uses three power-dense modules to minimize I2R power distribution board losses, maximize efficiency and improve transient response.
