Pick Your Power with Microchip’s New Electric Vehicle Charger Reference Designs
07 Agosto 2024 - 7:00AM
The reliability and performance of Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers
are critical to drive global market adoption. EV manufacturers are
focused on delivering the most robust, weather-resistant and
user-friendly EV chargers. To accelerate the time to market of an
EV charger, Microchip Technology
(Nasdaq: MCHP)
today announces three flexible and scalable
EV Charger
Reference Designs including a Single-Phase AC Residential,
a Three-Phase AC Commercial with Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP)
and System-on-Chip (SoC) and a Three-Phase AC Commercial with OCPP
and Display.
Most of the active components for the EV charger reference
designs are available from Microchip, including the microcontroller
(MCU), analog front-end, memory, connectivity and power conversion.
This significantly streamlines the integration process, enabling
manufacturers to speed time to market for new charging
solutions.
“Microchip’s E-Mobility team is focused on developing reference
designs that our customers can directly use and benefit from,” said
Joe Thomsen, corporate vice president of Microchip’s digital signal
controller business unit. “We want to help our customers shorten
design cycles by offering complete solutions such as these new EV
charger references designs, while also supplying the hardware,
software and technical support.”
Microchip’s EV charger reference designs enable manufacturers to
scale depending on the target market with a range of solutions to
meet the needs of residential and commercial charging applications.
These reference designs offer complete hardware design files and
source code with software stacks that are tested and compliant to
communication protocols, including OCPP. OCPP offers manufacturers
a standard protocol to communicate between the charge point or
charging station and a central system. This protocol is designed to
enable interoperability of the charging applications regardless of
the network or vendor.
Highlights of Microchip’s EV Charger Reference
Designs
The Single-Phase AC Residential EV Charger Reference
Design offers a cost-effective and convenient solution for
home charging, where a single-phase supply is used. The on-board
high-performance energy metering device with automatic calibration
simplifies the production process. The design has integrated safety
protection features including Protective Earth Neutral (PEN) fault
detection and Residual Current Device (RCD) detection. The
Three-Phase AC Commercial with OCPP and Wi-Fi® SoC EV
Charger Reference Design is intended for high-end
residential and commercial charging stations. It features OCPP 1.6
stack integration for communication with charging networks and
Wi-Fi SoC for remote management.
The Three-Phase AC Commercial with OCPP and Display EV
Charger Reference Design caters to commercial and public
charging stations with a focus on robust operation including a
completed architecture review according to UL 2231. It is designed
to support up to 22 kW with bidirectional charging capabilities and
a modular architecture. The design also features a robust Graphical
User Interface (GUI) with a Thin-Film Transistor (TFT) screen and
touch input designed to withstand harsh environments.
Navigating the global EV charging landscape is complex and
fragmented, but Microchip offers the key technologies and solutions
to significantly simplify the design process through
implementation. Beyond the reference designs, Microchip supplies
the hardware, software and global technical support. To learn more
about Microchip’s EV, HEV and PHEV solutions, visit the
website.
Development Tools
The EV Reference Designs are supported by MPLAB® X
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to help designers
minimize development time, as well as MPLAB Harmony
v3 and MPLAB Code Configurator.
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About Microchip
Technology:Microchip Technology Inc. is a
leading provider of smart, connected and secure embedded control
and processing solutions. Its easy-to-use development tools and
comprehensive product portfolio enable customers to create optimal
designs which reduce risk while lowering total system cost and time
to market. The company’s solutions serve approximately 123,000
customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace
and defense, communications and computing markets. Headquartered in
Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support
along with dependable delivery and quality. For more information,
visit the Microchip website at
www.microchip.com.
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