Infineon Technologies XMC™ Digital Power Explorer Kit

Infineon XMC™ Digital Power Explorer Kit is an evaluation board for learning and testing digital power control applications. The board features a synchronous buck converter that can be controlled digitally with XMC microcontrollers. The synchronous buck converter has on-board resistive load banks that can be switched between 10%, 55% and 100% of the maximum load.

The XMC Digital Power Explorer Kit uses the XMC range of ARM® Cortex®-M microcontrollers, OptiMOS™ BSC0924NDI MOSFETs and IRS2011S high and low-side drivers. Two control card options are available (XMC1300, XMC4200) with an isolated on-board debugger that can be plugged in, to select between price/performance combinations. This board can implement voltage control and peak current control with slope compensation. Multiple test points are provided on the power board for checking the quality of all the relevant signals. A communication option via PMBus™ is provided for easy integration in more complex power management systems.

Features

Synchronous and non-synchronous buck converter modes
- Voltage and peak current control methods
- 2 channel bucks with 1 XMC. Connecting a second XMC Digital Power Explorer in master/slave configuration
- 3 on-board loads for testing step response with the option to connect external loads - i.e. electronic loads - for further advanced testing.
- Bode diagram measurement-ready - requires network analyser
- Dual channel serial communication including PMBus™ (I²C) communication

Single-package high-side and low-side MOSFET
Plenty of test points for learning all the details of the buck converter
General purpose switch for user interaction or control
Control-card connector for plugging in:
- Infineon XMC4200 Digital Power Control Card with XMC4200 (ARM® Cortex®-M4F-based) Microcontroller, 256 kByte on-chip Flash, LQFP64
- Infineon XMC1300 Digital Power Control Card with XMC1300 (ARM® Cortex®-M0-based) Microcontroller, up to 200 kByte on-chip Flash, TSSOP38