Miniaturized Data Acquisition System for Extreme Temperature Environments

Author

Berger, Richard ; Garbos, Raymond ; Cressler, John ; Mojarradi, Mohammad ; Peltz, Leora ; Blalock, Benjamin J. ; Johnson, Wayne ; Niu, Guofu ; Dai, Foster ; Mantooth, Alan ; Holmes, Jim ; Alles, Mike ; McClusky, Patrick

Author_Institution

BAE Syst., Manassas, VA

fYear

2008

fDate

1-8 March 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

12

Abstract

A data acquisition system is being developed for use on the NASA Lunar-Mars series of missions. The unit will accept inputs from multiple types of sensors, employing three types of input channels that each incorporate programmable elements to accommodate a wider variety of input signals. Based in part on a subsystem called the remote health node (RHN) that was originally developed during the 1990s for use on the now-defunct NASA X-33 "space plane", the remote electronics unit (REU) is being developed using a 0.5 micron silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology from IBM with a circuit library that has been designed to operate normally across a temperature range from -180 degrees C up through +125 degrees C.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; data acquisition; space vehicle electronics; NASA Lunar-Mars missions; NASA X-33 space plane; extreme temperature environments; miniaturized data acquisition system; remote electronics unit; remote health node; silicon germanium BiCMOS technology; Circuits; Data acquisition; Germanium silicon alloys; NASA; Propulsion; Radiation hardening; Sensor arrays; Silicon germanium; Space technology; Temperature distribution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2008 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1487-1

Electronic_ISBN

1095-323X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2008.4526493

Filename

4526493