vicorpower.com JA17V1 ©2017 Vicor Corporation. All rights reserved. The Solution The use of Factorized Power enabled the customer to reduce size, weight and heat generation of the conversion stages at the load itself. By splitting regulation (PRM) and transformation (VTM), and only having the transformation part (VTM) at the load itself, losses generated at the load and size of the converter are significantly lower compared to a full converter stage at this point. The regulation itself can happen at another point away from the load. The Customer's Challenge The number of IC pins to be tested is continuously increasing, while for cost reasons the number of chips tested per minute has to increase. This requires a major change in the hardware of the test equipment. The test head its

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