Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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<p>The first year objective of this multi-year project is to develop a plan to assemble the common, essential monitoring and control functions required by spacecraft and instrument power systems and implement them in a semi-custom application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a Power System-on-a-Chip (PSOC).</p><p>This approach promises at least 50% miniaturization of the presently used control circuits, to increase reliability and reduce development cost through re-use, and lower component count, while increasing robustness of spacecraft systems to extreme temperature and radiation environments.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>