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DC/DC Convertors
News Release from: Vicor UK | Subject: VI Brick
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 April 2008
Modular power platform enables flexible
design
VI Brick BCMs provide a highly efficient solution for intermediate bus architecture or point-of-load designs that require multiple output voltages.
The Brick Business Unit of Vicor Corporation has developed a new and advanced modular power platform: the VI Brick The VI Brick family incorporates the superior technical attributes of V-I Chip technology and a robust packaging that facilitates thermal management and through-hole assembly
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Incorporation of V-I Chip technology into the traditional brick environment gives power designers significantly increased power capabilities and greater design flexibility.
VI Brick BCMs provide a highly efficient solution for intermediate bus architecture or point-of-load (POL) designs that require multiple output voltages.
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They are available with nominal input voltages including 48V DC (11 models) and high voltage up to 380V DC (three models) and a wide array of output voltages from 1.5 to 48V DC.
The efficiency and compact sise of these modules yields power density up to 390W/in3 and their fast transient response means that less capacitance is required for energy storage near the load which equates to space and cost savings.
VI Brick PRM and VTM modules offer a flexible and scalable architecture for DC/DC power conversion using Factorised Power in a robust "brick-like" package designed for efficient thermal management.
The very flexible architecture facilitates several design configurations including multiple outputs, high power arrays, high-current/low voltage, high voltage, and separation of regulation and transformation for board spacing and thermal management.
These models include six PRM regulation modules which perform the regulation function and 12 VTM transformation modules that take the "factorised bus voltage" from the PRM and provide transformation and isolation.
VI Brick 48V DC/DC convertors use advanced Sine Amplitude convertor technology, thermally enhanced packaging technologies, and advanced CIM processes to provide high power density and efficiency, superior transient response, and improved thermal management.
There are 13 different models with isolated outputs ranging from 1 to 48V DC.
VI Brick models are available in a base temperature grade of -40 to +100C, operating, and -40 to +125C, storage, with a slotted-flange baseplate and through-hole pin style.
All modules of the VI Brick family are RoHS compliant and compatible with lead free wave soldering processes.
The VI Brick PRM, VTM and BCM are robust, thermally proficient and compact with dimensions of 48.6 x 27.7 x 9.5mm.
The VI Brick DC/DC convertor modules have similar packaging but with dimensions of 55.7 x 48.6 x 9.5mm.
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