Solar inverter development kits offer advanced peripherals and more

Available now from Mouser, the Texas Instruments (TI) C2000 Solar Inverter Development Kits bring advanced peripherals, application-targeted development hardware, a comprehensive library of algorithms, and an industry leading development environment to the renewable energy market. The high-voltage solar development kits (TMDSHV1PHINVKIT and TMDSHVMPPTKIT) and low-voltage solar explorer kits (TMDSSOLARCEXPKIT and TMDSSOLARPEXPKIT) enable designers to jump-start designs while evaluating different algorithms and topologies. The Solar Inverter Development Kits are built on the TI C2000 F28035 Piccolo microcontroller which runs at speeds up to 60Mhz and features up to 128KB of flash memory, a 12-bit 4.6MSPS multichannel ADC, ePWM outputs, and a control law accelerator (CLA). The high-voltage isolated kits feature a Concerto MCU for the inverter portion of the design, offering the flexibility of having control code and communications code handled by a single processor. They feature a 300VDC compatible input stage supporting up to 500W. This dual controller design features a two switch interleaved boost stage for MPPT and an isolated LLC resonant DC-DC converter. The low-voltage kits are designed for safe benchtop level experimentation. They support a 12VDC/50W input stage and feature built in PV emulation, a photo-diode for light sensing, a single switch DC-DC boost for MPPT, a DC-DC SEPIC stage for battery charging, and a full bridge AC/DC inverter stage capable of driving 24VAC, says the company.