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PDC's field proven technology is integrated into the world's most advanced civil aerospace, defense, industrial and space applications.
Power Device Corporation (PDC) is a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-reliability Power and Control solutions (Components to Processor Based Subsystems, Space Qualified SBCs and Radiation Hardened Components; Power Distribution, Control and Conversion; Motor Control and Motion Feedback) for aerospace, defense, space, and industrial applications.
PDC offers proven smart power control and power conversion solutions that enable land, sea, air, and space vehicle systems the ability to control and distribute raw and conditioned power, more efficiently and reliably. Power management with PDC's Solid-State Power Controller (SSPC) solutions offer dramatic SWaP-C saving advantages over the electromechanical switches, relays, and circuit breakers they replace. PDC's power conversion and supply solutions, offering greater than 92% efficiency, provide high quality conditioned power in a space saving, reliable, and field-proven, "fit and forget" design.
Power Solutions
DATEL, a subsidiary of PDC, was established in 1970 and has been a long time leader in providing high precision data acquisition components, including data converters, power supplies, DC-DC converters, and digital panel meters.
DATEL
PDC is a leader in high reliability motor control and synchro/resolver motion feedback solutions for defense, civil aerospace, space, and industrial applications. PDC's motor control solutions deliver high reliability postion, torque and speed control, while our synchro/resolver motion feedback solutions provide high accuracy positioning, direction and speed data for high reliability applications.
Motion Control Solutions
PDC is a leading supplier of space qualified SBCs and radiation hardened components. Utilizing multiple radiation hardening techniques, PDC's space solutions incorporate one or more of the following elements: RAD-PAK® technology, Rad Hard by Design, Triple Mode Redundancy (TMR), and Error-Correction Codes (ECC). PDC's space-qualified and field proven solutions are engineered for space’s extreme environmental requirements, while reducing space, weight, and power consumption, along with total cost of ownership.
Satellites & Space Systems
PDC’s core competencies and unique suite of capabilities for the production of custom solutions span every stage of development including electrical design, mechanical design, test engineering, process engineering, manufacturing, and product assurance. PDC is uniquely qualified to support a wide range of application requirements and technologies based upon our decades of experience in analog and digital microelectronics, magnetics, power supplies, and radiation mitigation technology.
Custom Solutions
PDC 7846B 16-Bit DAC converter microcircuit features a greater than 100 krad (Si) total dose tolerance, depending upon space mission. The 7846B has VREF+ and VREF- reference inputs and an on-chip output amplifier which gives the option of unipolar or bipolar output. The 7846B uses a segmented architecture. The 4 MSBs in the DAC latch select one of the segments in a 16-resistor string. Both taps of the segment are buffered by amplifiers and fed to a 12-bit DAC, which provides a further 12 bits of resolution.
This architecture ensures 16-bit monotonicity. Excellent integral linearity results from tight matching between the input offset voltages of the two buffer amplifiers. In addition to the excellent accuracy specifications, the 7846B also offers a comprehensive microprocessor interface. There are 16 data I/O pins, plus control lines (CS, R/W, LDAC and CLR). R/W and CS have readback function which allows writing to and reading from the I/O latch.
PDC patented RAD-PAK packaging technology incorporates radiation shielding in the microcircuit package. It eliminates the need for box shielding while providing the required radiation shielding for a lifetime in orbit or space mission. In a GEO orbit, RAD-PAK provides greater than 100 krad (Si) radiation dose tolerance. This product is available with screening up to Class S.
RAD-PAK TID Shielding Effectiveness Analysis
Rev: 5 (2 Pages, 1.09 MB)
7846B 16-Bit Digital to Analog Converter Data Sheet
Rev: 3 (11 Pages, 357.71 KB)
Radiation Hardened Microelectronics and Computers Product List
Rev: 11 (2 Pages, 135.12 KB)
Space Solutions Brochure
Rev: 1 (5 Pages, 3.04 MB)
How Rad Hard Do You Need? The Changing Approach To Space Parts Selection?
(7 Pages, 359 KB)
Proton Transport An Examination of Model and Experimental Data For Space Environment Protons
(12 Pages, 387 KB)
Standard Product Flows – Monolithic Products
Rev: 10 (1 Pages, 515.77 KB)
DDC Product Catalog
Rev: 8 (84 Pages, 33.60 MB)
