Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting, completes the development of a ruggedized power supply for use in demanding avionics applications.

Working closely with component vendors, Orchid Technologies delivered a ighly reliable, light weight, 150,000 Hour MTBF solution, for its vionics client.

"The high output voltage stability with low current noise was essential over the entire operating range of this design," says Paul Nickelsberg, President and Senior Engineer for Orchid Technologies. "Optimization of power supply size and weight were critical to the success of this ruggedized power supply."

Brownout detection, over and under voltage protection and thermal protection was performed with an on-board power supply controller. In addition, advanced error detection and power supply status monitoring achieved extraordinary output performance from the design.

About Orchid Technologies

Orchid develops custom electronic products for OEM's. Orchid has successfully completed hundreds of electronic product designs. Orchid offers its clients a skillful blend of innovative hardware and software design with practical production expertise. Visit Orchid Technologies' website www.orchid-tech.com for recent design projects. For additional information contact Paul Nickelsberg, President of Orchid Technologies at 978-461-2000.

Maynard, MA., August 19, 2008- Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting, Completes the Development of a High-speed AdvancedTCA Carrier Blade Design based on a Freescale Power-PC MPC8548 supported by 400MHz DDR2 RAM design.

The AdvancedTCA Carrier Blade electronics design demands the most from any engineering team. The 32-bit, 1.3 GHz processor with 48 lanes of PCI Express peripheral support and fat-pipe I/O support is a performance champion. The design also has customized Zone 3 RTM connectivity. In addition, Renasas SH8-based IPMI resource management supports over 200 Watts of on-board hot-swap power control making this ATCA Blade highly reliable.

"AdvancedTCA and microTCA architectures are intended for demanding, high availability applications," says Paul Nickelsberg, President and Senior Engineer at Orchid Technologies. "Orchid's early success with AdvancedTCA and microTCA design provided our clients world-class high-end computing options."

About Orchid Technologies

Orchid develops custom electronic products for OEM's. Orchid has successfully completed hundreds of electronic product designs. Orchid has designed high-performing, high-speed computer blade designs with rapid design cycles for its OEM clients. Visit Orchid Technologies' website www.orchid-tech.com for recent design projects. For additional information contact Paul Nickelsberg, President of Orchid Technologies at 978-461-2000.