{"id":677,"date":"2025-05-19T21:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T21:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/?page_id=677"},"modified":"2025-05-26T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:04:19","slug":"aml100-ate-4-ch-isolated-power-supply","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/sample-page\/aml100-ate-4-ch-isolated-power-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"AML100 ATE 4Ch Isolated PSU (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1688\" height=\"1271\" src=\"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/psu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/psu.jpg 1688w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/psu-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/psu-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/psu-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/psu-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/psu-650x489.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1688px) 100vw, 1688px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I designed the electronics and the mechanical assemblies for a 4channel power supply used with Aspinity&#8217;s AML100 ATE Production Tester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The ATE hardware is comprised of 4 channels each used for simultaneous characterization and production testing of Aspinity&#8217;s AML100 ultra low power analog sensing IC. We wished to (a) inject clean power into each channel and (b) protect the communication from the host PC (since we were dealing with sensitive analog signals). 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