A method of performing congestion notification for a data transmission from a sender to a receiver is described. The sensor is gimbal mounted on a space or air-borne vehicle and includes a heat sink component thermally coupled to the one or more thermally sensitive components via at least one heat strap and configured to at least passively receive and store thermal energy from the one or more thermally sensitive components without use of a motorized thermal energy transfer device. The lock and the sticky-lock bits are both set when the processor executes a lock instruction that also sends a lock-request to a resource arbiter. The circuit then adjusts a bias current and stores this adjustment to cancel offset during the operational phase of the amplifier.