Vicor Corporation today announced the launch of its new AC to Point-of-Load Development Kit.
The development kit enables power system designers to immediately begin operating and evaluating a complete power system solution featuring the industry’s thinnest, highest performance, highest density power components, without the hassles and time penalties associated with designing and acquiring their own prototyping boards, system interconnects, energy storage and thermal management components.
The ACPoL DKit of an AC Front-End chassis, which receives power from the AC line and delivers up to 400 Watts of power via an isolated, regulated, distributed bus voltage, and a Point-of-Load (“PoL”) chassis, which receives the distribution bus voltage and generates three independent regulated PoL outputs.
One version of the DKit features a 24 VDC distribution bus; another version features a 48 VDC bus.
DKits include all necessary ancillary components, including a bus hold-up capacitor assembly and an AC line cord.
The ACFE chassis features Vicor’s AIM 1714 and PFM 4414 modular front-end components, each packaged in Vicor’s compact, thermally adept, 9 mm-thin, VIA package.
The AIM module provides full-wave rectification, Class B conducted EMI filtering and input surge protection.
The PFM, which receives its input power from the AIM, features power factor correction and delivers up to 400 Watts of fully isolated, regulated, 24 VDC or 48 VDC for powering downstream PoL regulators.
The AIM/PFM combination enables power systems designers to instantly implement a full function AC-DC front-end system in a fraction of the space of conventional “1U” solutions.
And, because the AIM and the PFM are each available in both board and chassis-mount configurations, systems designers can achieve maximum final system density by utilizing an available chassis as a mounting and cooling surface.
The new ACPoL DKit provides everything necessary to begin testing and evaluating the features and benefits of Victor’s end-to-end modular power systems solutions and the Power Component approach.
Vicor’s “no surprises” Power Component Design Methodology and online PowerBench tools enable power systems engineers to rapidly design and implement complete power systems offering field proven reliability and predictability and industry-leading performance, density, efficiency and economy.
Power Component Design Methodology and Online Configuration and Design Tools
Vicor’s Power Component Design Methodology enables power system designers to reap all of the benefits of modular power component design -predictable component and system functionality and reliability, fast design cycles, and easy system configurability, re-configurability and scaling — while achieving system operating efficiency, power density and economy that rival the best alternative solutions.
Utilizing Vicor’s online tools, power system designers select from an extensive portfolio of proven Vicor power components to architect, optimize and simulate their complete power system, all the way from their input sources to their points of load.
This innovative approach to power system design delivers fast time-to-market and state-of-the-art performance while minimizing the possibility of last minute surprises and delays that so often occur with conventional or custom design methodologies.