Distributed power architecture demand characteristics

A demand characteristics survey was used to determine the implications of system design trends on distributed power architectures. The largest number of respondents came from the communications segment (28.6%), with military having the second-largest number of respondents (20.0%). Selected results from the survey indicate that within five years, engineers overall expect today\´s centralized power architectures will be replaced with distributed power architectures, spot power architectures and intermediate bus architectures (IBAs). But only a small percentage of respondents believe IBAs will be the "most often used" power system architecture in the future. The end-use segment expecting to use IBAs the most is the military segment.