This project entails aggressively reducing the size of the Power System Electronics (PSE) low-voltage telemetry and housekeeping (HK) electronics. The goal is to combine multiple discrete analog, digital and mixed-signal devices into a single smart system-on-a-chip (SOC) radiation hardened chip solution. Ultimately, this effort seeks to produce a flight worthy rad-hard device that will replace several discrete devices in current and future PSE designs thus reducing the size, mass and power; cost and complexity. At a higher level the device will serve as a modular low-power data acquisition SOC, suitable for miniaturized instruments and spacecraft smart/automated housekeeping data collection.
More »Main benefit is the reduction of size, mass and power of current state-of-the-art and the next generation of PSE cards. Also the proposed device will support current and future GSFC PSE architectures, but it can also supports/benefits CubeSats instruments, CubeSats PSE and PSE for lunar surface, planetary and heliophysics payloads.
More »Organizations Performing Work | Role | Type | Location |
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) | Lead Organization | NASA Center | Greenbelt, Maryland |