The PMP20774 reference design is a universal USB Type-C charger utilizing the LM5175 DC/DC and TPS25740B PD controller for aftermarket automotive charger applications. This design operates with a minimum input voltage of 6V and a maximum input voltage of 40V. This design is capable of delivering 3A continuously at 5Vout, 9Vout, 15Vout and 20Vout. The switching frequency is set to 350kHz. The waveforms are collected when the input voltage is 12V and 24V.
This brushed motor system uses an MSP430 microcontroller, a DRV8837 brushed DC motor driver, and a 12V brushed motor. This system is suitable for applications requiring speeds up to 10,300 RPM under no load conditions. The system measures 19 x 33 mm without motor, making it ideal for applications requiring a small footprint. The motor power supply voltage supports 1.8V to 11V, and the maximum current is 1.8A. There are various configuration options for easily controlling the rotation of the motor, changing the direction of rotation, and placing the system into a low-power state to reduce energy consumption when not in use. The motor drive platform incorporates protection against short circuit, breakdown, undervoltage and overheating.
This design is a digitally controlled two-phase interleaved 700W power factor correction converter with added power metering capabilities. The power factor correction converter's two 180° phase-shifted boost power stages use a C2000™ Piccolo™ microcontroller, which also monitors line and neutral voltage waveforms for power metering functions. This design is able to achieve 97% efficiency and 1.5% THD (full load) with a power factor greater than 0.98. This design is an excellent choice for offline applications and AC/DC power supplies by minimizing power losses in the power stage, mitigating the reliability impact of harmonic distortion, and providing near-peak power factors.
ZigBee applications such as home and industrial automation, lighting, metering and sensor networks may require longer RF transmission range and higher sensitivity than the standalone CC2530. TI's new SimpleLink CC2530-CC2592 reference design pairs the cost-effective SimpleLink ZigBee CC2530 wireless MCU with the SimpleLink CC2592 range extender to improve receiver sensitivity by 2-3 dB and increase the total link budget to 120 dB, significantly improving Coverage of each node in the ZigBee network.
System example of an active cell balancing battery management system. The TMS570LS0432 microcontroller commands the EMB1402 EVM to monitor the battery cells and perform charge/discharge from one battery cell to an external 12V power supply. Users can view battery status and control battery balancing through a GUI running on the host PC.
This reference design is a power supply solution for reverse powered telecom applications. Up to 8 isolated inputs provide a universal output; the load is shared equally among all active converters.
This display reference design uses the DLP Pico™ 0.3-inch TRP HD 720p display chipset and is implemented in the DLP LightCrafter™ Display 3010-G2 Evaluation Module (EVM). This reference design enables high resolution in projection display applications such as mobile smart TVs, virtual assistant mobile projectors, digital signage and more. This design includes the DLP3010 chipset, which consists of the DLP3010 720p digital micromirror device (DMD), DLPC3433 display controller, and DLPA3000 PMIC/LED driver.
This reference design is a singled-layered, cost-effective, small-form-factor, three-phase sinusoidal motor drive for sensored BLDC fan motors specified up to a maximum current of 1 A RMS at 18 V maximum. The unique, single-sided design helps to bring down the system cost. The on-board Hall sensors facilitate the board mounting inside the motor itself. The design also demonstrates the features of DRV10970 such as single hall operation for further cost optimization, sinusoidal drive with adaptive drive angle adjustment for better system efficinecy and overall performance, speed control via external pulse-width modulation (PWM) input which brings an ease of speed control, etc.
This reference design uses the boost converter TPS61021A to provide a high-efficiency LED driver circuit with dimming capabilities. The PWM dimming method can be used for one or two AA battery input applications, while the analog dimming method can be used for one AA battery input application. The PMP15037 enables dimming functionality by adding multiple resistors and a MOSFET to the circuit, making it a cost-effective and efficient solution for LED driver applications.
CLLLC resonant DABs with bidirectional power flow capabilities and soft switching characteristics are an ideal candidate for hybrid electric vehicle/electric vehicle (HEV/EV) on-board charger and energy storage applications. This design demonstrates the use of a C2000™ MCU to control this power topology in closed voltage and closed current loop modes. The hardware and software available for this design can help you
reduce your time to market.
The TIDEP-0092 reference design provides a foundation for short-range radar (SRR) applications using the AWR1642 evaluation module (EVM). This design allows the estimation and tracking of the position (in the azimuthal plane) and velocity of objects in its field of view up to 80 m, travelling as fast as 90kmph. The AWR1642 is configured to be a multi-mode radar, meaning that, while it tracks objects at 80m, it can also generate a rich point cloud of objects at 20m, so that both cars at a distance, and smaller obstacles close-by can be detected. Learn more with the TI Resource Explorer for Short Range Radar.
Interleaved Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM) Totem Pole (TTPL) Bridgeless Power Factor Correction (PFC) using high-bandgap GaN devices is an attractive power topology due to its high power efficiency and reduced size. This design illustrates the use of a C2000™ MCU and LMG3410 GaN FET module to control this power stage. To improve efficiency, this design uses adaptive dead time and phase shedding methods. Nonlinear voltage compensators are designed to reduce overshoot and undershoot during transients. This design chooses a software phase locked loop (SPLL) based approach to accurately drive the totem pole bridge. The hardware and software used in this design help reduce your time to market.
This reference design outlines how to implement a three-stage, three-phase SiC-based AC/DC converter with bidirectional functionality. The high switching frequency of 50kHz reduces the size of the magnetic components in the filter design and therefore increases the power density. SiC MOSFETs with switching losses enable higher DC bus voltages up to 800V and lower switching losses, with peak efficiencies greater than 97%. This design can be configured as a two-stage or three-stage rectifier. For design information on DC/AC implementation, see TIDA-01606 . The system is controlled by a single C2000 microcontroller (MCU), TMS320F28379D, which generates PWM waveforms for all power electronic switching devices in all operating modes.
The Vienna rectifier power topology is used in high power three-phase power factor (AC-DC) applications such as off-board EV chargers and telecom rectifiers. Rectifier control design can be complex. This design illustrates the use of a C2000™ microcontroller (MCU) to control a power stage. Monitoring and control of Vienna rectifiers is also implemented based on HTTP GUI pages and Ethernet support (F2838x only). The hardware and software used with this design can help you reduce your time to market. The Vienna rectifier power topology is used in high-power three-phase power factor correction applications such as off-board electric vehicle charging and telecom rectifiers. This design illustrates how to use a C2000 microcontroller to control a Vienna rectifier. The Vienna rectifier power topology is used in high power three-phase power factor (AC/DC) applications such as off-board electric vehicle (EV) chargers and telecom rectifiers. Rectifier control design can be complex. This design illustrates the use of a C2000™ microcontroller to control a power stage. The hardware and software used with this design can help you reduce your time to market. The Vienna rectifier power topology is used in high-power three-phase power factor correction applications such as off-board electric vehicle charging and telecom rectifiers. This design illustrates how to use a C200-MCU to control a Vienna rectifier. Learn more about what C2000 MCUs can offer for electric vehicle applications
Li-Ion battery formation and electrical testing require accurate voltage and current control, usually to better than ±0.05% over the specified temperature range. This reference design proposes a solution for high-current (up to 50 A) battery tester applications supporting input (bus) voltages from 8 V–16 V and output load (battery) voltages from 0V–5V. The design utilizes an integrated multi-phase bidirectional controller, LM5170, combined with a high precisiondata converters and instrumentation amplifiers to achieve charge and discharge accuracies of 0.01% full scale. To maximize battery capacity and minimize battery formation time, the design uses highly-accurate constant current (CC) and constant voltage (CV) calibration loops with a simplified interface. All key design theories are described guiding users through the part selection process and optimization. Finally, schematic, board layout, hardware testing, and results are also presented.
Continuous-Conduction-Mode (CCM) Totem-pole power factor correction (PFC) is a simple but efficient power converter. To achieve 99% efficiency, there are many design details that need to be taken into account. The PMP20873 reference design uses TI’s 600VGaN power stage, LMG3410, and TI’s UCD3138 digital controller. The design overview provides more details on the CCM Totem-Pole topology operation, gives the detail design considerations of the circuit, and provides magnetics and firmware control design considerations. This converter design operates at 100KHz. A soft start at AC line crossover minimizes current spike and lowers THD. The PFC Firmware measures AC current and PFC output voltage in real-time and predicts the dead time needed for the switch node to complete a full swing. The adaptive dead time control effectively minimizes both switching loss and GaN FET body diode conduction loss. A GUI is available to support parameter setting and control loop tuning.
This reference design demonstrates how our single-chip millimeter wave (mmWave) technology can be leveraged for reliable long-distance sensing in traffic monitoring and other applications. This reference design can use the IWR1642BOOST Evaluation Module (EVM) or the IWR1843BOOST Evaluation Module (EVM) and integrate the complete radar processing chain onto the IWR1642, IWR6843 or IWR8143 device. The processing chain includes analog radar configuration, analog-to-digital converter (ADC) capture, low-level FFT processing, and high-level clustering and tracking algorithms. This reference design is designed to be built on top of our mmWave SDK for a centralized software experience that includes APIs, libraries and tools for evaluation, development and data visualization.
This proven reference design outlines how to implement a three-level, three-phase DC/AC T-inverter stage based on SiC. The higher switching frequency of 50KHz reduces the size of the magnetic components of the filter design and therefore increases the power density. By using SiC MOSFETs that reduce switching losses, higher DC bus voltages up to 1000V and lower switching losses are ensured, resulting in peak efficiencies of 99%. This design can be configured as a two- or three-level inverter. The system is controlled by a single C2000 microcontroller (MCU), TMS320F28379D, which generates PWM waveforms for all power electronic switching devices in all operating modes.
Interleaved Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM) Totem Pole (TTPL) Bridgeless Power Factor Correction (PFC) using high-bandgap GaN devices is an attractive power topology due to its high power efficiency and reduced size. This design illustrates the use of a C2000™ MCU and LMG3410 GaN FET module to control this power stage. To improve efficiency, this design uses adaptive dead time and phase shedding methods. Nonlinear voltage compensators are designed to reduce overshoot and undershoot during transients. This design chooses a software phase locked loop (SPLL) based approach to accurately drive the totem pole bridge. The hardware and software used in this design help reduce your time to market.
This camera design demonstrates the smallest solution size for a 1.3-megapixel automotive camera. Only a single coaxial cable connection provides digital video, power, camera control and diagnostics. The output video format is 10-bit up to 100MHz or 12-bit up to 75MHz.