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supplied in 5V. The circuit will be located on the batteries card.component since it will not be used in space.This is not a critical3.8 <strong>Power</strong> conditioning unitMost subsystems have to be supplied with a regulated voltage. The power conditioning unitprovides the required voltages by converting power from the batteries bus. The list <strong>of</strong> requiredvoltages <strong>and</strong> corresponding maximum currents is given in chapter 2.Output 1 Output 2 Output 3Voltage [V] 3.3 5 7.2Max. Current[mA] 200 200 420Max. <strong>Power</strong> [mW] 660 1,000 3,024Table 3.6: Specifications for the power conditioning unit in term <strong>of</strong> output voltage,max.current, <strong>and</strong> max. power.Early in the project [3], it was decided to use three DC/DC converters to produce thedesired voltages. The batteries bus voltage will be converted to 5V <strong>and</strong> 7.2V by two ”boost”DC/DC converters, <strong>and</strong> to 3.3V by one ”buck/boost” converter.3.9 Protection circuitsThe protection <strong>of</strong> subsystems against over-current was in the initial objectives <strong>of</strong> the EPS. Acurrent-limiting circuit was chosen in [3]. This circuit prevents the current at its output toget over a chosen threshold. The circuit has a “FAULT” logical output that will be used toindicate to the OBC when a protection circuit detected an over-current. It also has a ON/OFFinput, that allows to turn on <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong>f the power on the output <strong>of</strong> the current-limiting circuit.If such a circuit is located on the EPS, it can protect each power bus (3.3V, 5V, <strong>and</strong>7.2V), but not each subsystem individually (there is a limited number <strong>of</strong> power busses in thePC104 port). With the <strong>OUFTI</strong>-1 team, we took the decision to use a current-limiting circuiton each subsystem. The protection circuit will be located on the user’s cards. Doing so, alot <strong>of</strong> space is saved on the EPS card. There will be only one protection circuit on the EPScard: the protection circuit <strong>of</strong> the measurement circuits. Another advantage <strong>of</strong> this structureis that the OBC can turn the power on <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong>f for each subsystem individually.3.10 Measurement system (Housekeeping parameters measurements)There are several measurement circuits on the EPS. Current sense IC’s, temperature probe,<strong>and</strong> voltage scalers (two resistors) are connected to analogic-to-digital converters. All the correspondingcircuits must be supplied with 3.3V. Like other subsystems, measurement circuitshave to be protected against over-current. The corresponding protection circuit is placed38

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