Power bricks are DC-DC converters or AC-DC power supplies that are designed to conform to the Distributed-power Open Systems Alliance (DOSA) industry standard comprising of six sizes, the largest is the Full brick with a footprint of 116.8 x 61.0mm, then Half brick, Quarter brick, 1/8th brick, 1/16thbrick, down to 1/32nd brick at 23.35 x 19mm.The advantage of a power brick is that they offer a complete solution in a single package, that may just require additional input or output filtering, depending on the application. Cooling can be by conduction via the baseplate mounting or convection via a heatsink.Within its extensive AC-DC power supply & DC-DC converter portfolio, XP Power offers a number of products in brick packages of various sizes and power ratings for a variety of applications.