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Context. DC voltage converters (DCV) are part of modern power supply systems (PSS) and power supply ensuring the operation of electronic and radio devices, telecommunication systems and communication and to a large extent determine their power consumption, reliability, time of readiness for operation, weight, size and cost indicators. Even though there are a large number of different software packages used in engineering practice for the study and design of radio engineering devices, such computer-aided design (CAD) systems and virtual computer simulation of electronic circuits have some limitations that do not allow to quickly carry out the entire complex of studies of DCV required for the analysis of electrical processes in various operating modes. Objective. In this section, the goal is to select the most suitable methods and algorithms that allow the development of software necessary for solving the problems of research and analysis of electrical processes for select energy parameters of the DCV of a modular structure in a separate power channel (PWC). Method. The paper proposes a method that consists in using mathematical models describing electrical processes in DC voltage converters and creating, on the basis of the developed calculation algorithms, specialized software for the automated study of electrical processes in the DCV of a modular structure using a computer. Results. The paper discusses the main methods of automated research of radio engineering devices, which can be used to analyze the electrical processes of pulsed DC voltage converters of a modular structure. Algorithms of calculation are given and, as an example, some results of automated research obtained using this method. Conclusions. The analysis of the known methods of automated research of DC voltage converters of modular structure is carried out. Their advantages and disadvantages are given. It is shown that the most suitable method is based on the use of mathematical models describing electrical processes in DC voltage converters of this type. On the basis of the mathematical models presented in the second section of the work, algorithms and specialized software have been developed that allow them to be widely used in the automated research and design of modular-structured DC voltage converters.

The article presents the research results on a device for automatic measurement of the temperature stability of the output characteristics of voltage-to-frequency converters. The device can be used to measure mechanical stresses in the ship's hull. The main source of information on the state of the mechanical stress on the hull of the ship is the integrated monitoring system. Monitoring methods are based on measuring the frequency of the output signals from the sensors based on strain gages, which have a wide scatter of values for parameters and characteristics and depend on external factors. A possible solution to this problem is to use a device that would convert the analog sensor signal into a more noise-immune signal of another type, for example, voltage-to-frequency converter. It is for such systems based on synchronous integrated converters that the authors have developed a device for automatic measurement of the temperature stability of the output characteristics of frequency converters. Such device can measure the thermal stability of the convertor automatically, which makes it possible to analyze the effect of temperature on the output characteristics of the converter and to experimentally study the sensors in a wide range of operating temperatures (from room temperature to 70℃). The study of the thermal stability of the characteristics of such sensors made it possible to confirm the quality of its electronic components and to determine which parameters need to be adjusted. The device is a set of units, one of them being a control circuit based on the ATmega-16 RISC microcontroller. This design and the developed algorithm for the device operation makes it possible to determine the output frequency with a high accuracy (with a measurement time of 1 sec, the accuracy reaches 0.05%). The developed device allows finding the ways to increase the thermal stability of mechanical stress sensors based on integral converters.