Power
Vicor Introduces MIL-COTS VI Brick Filter
The Brick Business Unit of Vicor has announced the introduction of the MIL-COTS VI BRICK Filter, available as a stand-alone filter or integrated with the PRM™ Regulator Module. The integrated filter is an efficient (~95%) non-isolated regulator capable of both boosting and bucking a wide-range input voltage (16.5 – 50 VDC) and delivers output power up to 120 W. Smaller than comparable competitive products, it provides compliance to MIL-STD-1275A/B/D and MIL-STD-704A-F for transients and MIL-STD-461E/F for EMI.
The Substantially smaller than competitive products with similar power ratings - 48,6 x 27,7 x 9,5 mm (1.91 x 1.09 x 0.37) - this integrated package provides design flexibility and meets stringent EMI and transient protection specifications.
The MIL-COTS VI BRICK Filter is specifically designed to provide a controlled Factorized Bus distribution voltage for powering downstream VI BRICK VTM™ current multipliers that are fast, efficient, isolated, low-noise point-of-load (POL) converters. In combination, VI BRICK PRMs and VTMs form a complete DC-DC converter subsystem offering all of the unique benefits of Vicor’s Factorized Power Architecture™ (FPA™). The benefits include: high density and efficiency, low-noise operation, architectural flexibility, extremely fast transient response, and elimination of bulk capacitance at the point-of-load (POL).
Applications for the new VI BRICK Filter are typically military ground vehicle and airborne systems. Examples of ground vehicle applications include communication, targeting systems, flat panel displays, RF jamming, and GPS mobile tracking.