skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Digital control and operation of DC power supplies for automatic test equipment

Conference ·
OSTI ID:269839
 [1]
  1. Kepco, Inc., Flushing, NY (United States)

The role of instrumentation grade power supplies is usually reserved for those applications that require high-gain, high-resolution, smart power. These power supplies are often integrated into automatic test equipment (ATE) systems of enormous complexity. Applications abound in such diverse fields as automatic manufacturing, DOD test systems, temperature control units for large buildings, magnetic steering devices in beam particle accelerators, telemetry equipment and so on. These applications employ power supplies as a sort of d-c signal generator to stimulate and read back information about the devices under test. Such applications are in sharp contrast to the usual role of a power supply as a passive supplier of voltage.

OSTI ID:
269839
Report Number(s):
CONF-951050-; TRN: 96:002072-0013
Resource Relation:
Conference: Conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Portland, OR (United States), 10-12 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of IEEE technical applications conference and workshops - Northcon/95; PB: 430 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English