SBIR/STTR Research Award
Prompt Dose Radiation Hardened Point-of-Load Power Converter
Award amount
$995,551Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- VPT, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2008-06-27
- Contract end date
- 2010-06-26
- UEI
- MC5HQM6XUHR7
- Solicitation number
- 2006.3
- Topic code
- MDA06-042
Research abstract
In this SBIR, VPT has proposed a point-of-load (POL) power converter that is immune to radiation effects, including total dose, prompt dose, and SEU. Such a RH-POL converter addresses the demanding low voltage, high current, power requirements of advanced data processing circuitry in MDA applications. In Phase I, VPT built on its recently-introduced military thick-film hybrid DC-DC POL power converter to implement a design suitable for radiation hardened applications by incorporating: (a) a radiation-hardened (RH) pulse-width-modulator integrated circuit (PWM-IC) for POL applications recently developed by Sandia National Laboratories, (b) radiation characterization of low voltage power MOSFETs for POL applications, (c) RH-by-design techniques including MOSFET gate voltage control, latchup current limiting, and transient filtering. The RH-POL converter developed in this SBIR is designed to VPT’s Mil-PRF-38534 Class K certified standards. The resulting RH-POL will have wide application in MDA and defense space missions where low voltage electronics are employed.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- High-Efficiency, Radiation-Hardened, Power Converter System for Distributed Space Applications
- Reactive Power Supply
- Prompt Dose Radiation Hardened Point-of-Load Power Converter
- Modular Power System Configured with Standard Product Hybrid DC-DC Converters
- Modular Power System Configured with Standard Product Hybrid DC-DC Converters
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- RH Electronic Components (DSP's VC33 & C6727B)
- RH Electronic Components (1394B's LLC & PHY)
- Rad-Hard 17-bit ADCs
- Radiation Hard Electronic Components (ADC)
- Ultra-Fast Level 2 Cache SRAM for High-Performance Military and Spaceborne Computing
Research funding history
15 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1999–2008). Reported award amounts total $4,507,913. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration