Micross Hi-Rel Power Solutions is a trusted expert in high-reliability DC-DC converters, offering a broad portfolio available in a wide range of packages for space, defense and aerospace, and other demanding environments. The portfolio includes:
- Ruggedized DC-DC converters
- Radiation-hardened (rad hard) hermetic hybrid DC-DC converters, with DLA-certified SMD-5962 up to Class K available for multiple models
- Rad hard PCB open frame and enclosed power supplies
Backed by Micross Hi-Rel Power Solutions' vast space heritage, you can source high-reliability, qualified platforms that reduce project risk and time to market. Our flight-proven DC-DC converters can be used with confidence in a wide range of applications.
Streamline Development & Reduce Risk with Micross Hi-Rel Power Solutions
Deciding whether to make or buy DC-DC converters for your application can be a complex choice. With Micross Hi-Rel Power Solutions, customers leverage our extensive space engineering and radiation hardness expertise. Our unique hybrid technology delivers benchmark performance in low-weight, highly compact formats.
Micross Hi-Rel Power Solutions also creates custom derivatives based on proven standard topology and platforms.
Products
Micross Hi-Rel Power Solutions offers custom converters based on the standard hybrid series, as well as open frame PWB converter platforms.
Additional parametric data and packaging information is available through the hyperlinks within the table.
Maximum Output Power | Aerospace and Defense | Rad-Tolerant TID: 25-30 kRads SEE: 37-60 MeV |
Rad-Hard TID: 100-200 kRads SEE: 82MeV |
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Single | Dual | Triple | Single | Dual | Triple | Single | Dual | Triple | |
5W | ASA | ASA | - | - | - | - | ARA, ARE* | ARA, ARE* | - |
10W | - | - | - | - | - | - | S | S | - |
12W | AHF | AHF | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
15W | AHV | AHV | AHV, ATO | - | - | - | - | - | - |
20W | AHE | AHE | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
25W | ATS | ATS | - | M3L | M3L | - | - | - | - |
30W | ATR, ATW | ATR, ATW | ATR | - | - | - | LS, LSO | LS, LSO | - |
40W | - | - | - | M3H | M3H | M3H | M3GB | M3GB | M3GB |
50W | - | - | - | - | - | - | GH | - | - |
120W | AFL | - | - | - | - | - | GHP | GHP | - |
DC-DC Converter Solutions
Micross Hi-Rel Power Solutions is a leader in power management solutions for high reliability and space applications. Located in San Jose, California, the facility is DLA certified Class K to design and manufacture ruggedized hermetic hybrid DC-DC converters. The group is supported by a design center in Herlev, Denmark for spacecraft power system designs and complex power conversion system solutions. Decades of heritage in high reliability applications signify the company’s unwavering commitment to deliver nothing but the very best in power management solutions to the defense, aerospace, and space industries.
Our standard and radiation-hardened converters are at the heart of systems powering mankind’s most mission critical applications. You’ll find us throughout the world and above it, in commercial and military aircraft, missiles, smart munitions, weapon systems, launch vehicles, LEO/MEO satellites, and GEO satellites.
Micross Hi-Rel Power Solutions’ steady thrust in crafting the best in technology with the best in technique for the industry has resulted in highly reliable solutions rich in innovation and unmatched in ability. Micross Hi-Rel Power Solutions’ new 89% efficient, all-hybrid Electronic Power Conditioner (EPC) developed for spacecraft is but one example.
Product Offerings
- Standard HiRel converters for military, aerospace and rugged industrial applications
- Radiation Tolerant converters for low to moderate radiation environments total ionizing dose 25-30krad; Single Event Effect (SEE) rating with LET of 37-60 MeV•cm2/mg
- Radiation Hardened converters for harsh environments total ionizing dose is 100k-1Mrad; SEE rating with LET of > 83 MeV•cm2/mg. HiRel converters for Space Applications
- Input EMI filters, either internal or external to standard converters, for providing EMC compliance to MIL-STD-461C and the latest revision of the conducted emission requirements
- Custom converter designs for customer-specific requirements
Product Capabilities
- Input voltages from 11VDC - 500VDC
- Operating input voltage ratio typically 3:1
- Nominal inputs of 15, 28, 50, 70, 120, 270VDC
- Standard output voltages from 1.5V - 200V
- Output power from 5W to 400W
- Single, dual and triple output configuration
- I/O isolation >100mΩ @500VDC
- Operating temperature from -55ºC +125ºC
Key Features
- Process, Design and Manufacturing Expertise
- Honed for Aerospace and Defense
- Input-Output isolation
- Active inrush current limiting
- Fixed switching frequency
- Common frequency synchronization
- Soft start
- Short-circuit and overload protection
- Input undervoltage lockout
- Duty cycle limiting over-voltage protection
- Output turn-on/turn off sequencing
- Operation over -55°C to +125°C without de-rating
- Magnetically-coupled feedback
- TTL-compatible on/off command
- Isolated pulse on/off command
- Independent output voltage regulation
- Parallel operation with equal current rating
- Low profile, hermetically-sealed packages
- Copper I/O pins
- MIL-STD-461 EMI compliance
- Class H and Class K processes (IAW MIL-PRF-38534)
- Immunity to TID, SEE, neutron and prompt dose radiation environments in space
- Reliability screening option
Standards and Practices
In addition to design and quality practices common to commercial electronics, Micross subjects each of its ruggedized designs to the rigors necessary to insure reliable operation in hostile environments. Among these are:
- MIL-STD-975 and MIL-STD-1547 de-rating guidelines
- MIL-PRF-38534
- MIL-STD-704
- MIL-STD-461
- NASA EEE-INST-002
- Circuit simulation
- Finite Element Analysis
- Thermal, stress and worst-case analysis
- Shock and vibration analysis
- End-of-life analysis
- Reliability analysis (IAW MIL-HDBK-217F)
- Radiation susceptibility analysis
- First article qualification IAW MIL-STD-883 and MIL-STD-810