Power Management

Frontgrade is a trusted global supplier of standard and custom power management solutions, expertly engineered for radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant applications.

Built on a strong heritage in high reliability power technology, Frontgrade’s portfolio features products designed for the most challenging and rigorous applications. This includes transceivers, resolver to digital converters, pulse width modulators, precision current sources, multiplexers, and voltage regulators. Should our standard product lineup not precisely match a customer’s exact needs, Frontgrade’s design team will adapt an existing product or create a custom solution tailored specifically to your application requirements. At Frontgrade we are committed to working in close partnership with our customers to provide the right solution.

Our power management products are produced in the company’s Plainview, NY facility, which is equipped with cutting-edge manufacturing capabilities and adheres to the highest testing, environmental, and quality standards.

Are you looking for a solution to reduce size, weight, power and cost of your latest space design? 

World’s First Highly-integrated Smart Power Switch Controllers (SPSCs) for Space – UT36PFD103 and UT05PFD103 Look no further as our new UT36PFD103 and UT05PFD103 devices are the world’s first integrated smart power switch controllers for space applications. These SPSCs provide extensive fault detection, isolation and recovery capabilities as well as digitized telemetry of input voltage, output voltage and load current into a single device. 

In addition, these controllers feature integrated PMBus™ protocol over I2C communication, often yielding more than 75% and 50% cost reduction over alternative designs. Now, spacecraft power distribution designs can be designed with the assurance that no load fault will cause harm to the bus and associated componentry. 

UT36PFD103 (8V to 36V Support) and UT05PFD103 (4.5 to 5.5V Support) Features: 

  • Ultra-fast short circuit protection with less than 500ns fault detection to isolation response. 
  • Agnostic control of P-channel Power MOSFET switching elements to allow power switching of any current class 
  • Enable power switching for SpaceVPX Power UM, Pyro Arm-Fire, Long Power Harness Splicing and Waveguide Actuators
  • Best-in-class fault detection and isolation speed performance

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