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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2017
U.s.a., As Represented BY the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (US);
Brian S. Smith, Annapolis, MD (US);
Markus Loose, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Atul Joshi, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Greg T. Alkire, Chester, MD (US);
Daniel P. Kelly, Columbia, MD (US);
Edward S. Cheng, Glenn Dale, MD (US);
Abstract
A custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) may provide strong signal integrity while reducing the load to a thermal system. Control and analog-to-digital conversion may be pushed into components close to the detector to maximize signal integrity. Processing functions may be performed at relatively high temperature, or the highest allowable temperatures, simplifying the system-level thermal design by not cooling components that do not require such cooling to function.