Industry-leading efficiency and performance levels enabled by TI's three new digital power development kits based on Piccolo MCUs

HOUSTON, USA: Bringing new efficiency and performance capabilities to digital power supplies, Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced three new development kits that further expand its TMS320C2000 microcontroller (MCU) digital power portfolio of software, tools and training.

The new kits enable and simplify the more complex power supply functions that are currently in high demand, such as bridgeless design and Peak Current Mode Control (PCMC) with Slope Compensation. Programming challenges have been greatly reduced due to TI's free controlSUITE platform that includes more than 25 modular digital power software blocks. With TI's new offering, developers can harness the efficiency and reliability benefits of digital power in applications such as servers, telecom rectifiers, lighting, renewable energy, as well as hybrid and electric vehicles.

Each kit is based on a single C2000 Piccolo MCU with integrated high-performance analog, PWMs and other control-oriented peripherals to reduce system cost. Software configurable tuning allows for more flexibility to adjust power stages to support multiple end-product requirements, as opposed to time-intensive redesign of system hardware. The kits include all of the hardware and software required to be up and running in 10 minutes or less. Additionally, the onboard isolated XDS100 USB JTAG emulation simplifies debugging and programming.