How Would You RoadTest a Powerful Microcontroller Designed for EV Charging, e-Bikes and Robotics?

I saw your question the other day. I've been meaning to respond. Sorry for the delay. On occasion, we have provided extra parts in a roadtest kit when the tester requested it. Sometimes e14 pays for the parts, if they are incidental; other times, the sponsor would pay for it if it's an accessory to their product.  Sometimes we learn after promoting the roadtest that we need to provide extra things. If you tell me what you had in mind in your application, I can see about funding it. 

The vendor requirements would be ideal. Know what they want and deliver on the know.

There is a tremendous capability here, you could easily spend a year checking out all of the pieces and still not cover all of the potential here.

Way beyond my current capabilities.

I would suggest having the vendor identify a couple of key elements they want tested and then divvy those out to the road testers so they can concentrate testing the key elements.

Cool, a ready made breakout board. Outside my RoadTest Review capabilities. Be neat to work on a project that explores the chip deliverables. Thanks for the response.

Yes. There's no power electronics / charging circuit in this kit. It has the right parts to build the brains for such a system. Not the muscles.

In the real world, the XMC7200, and some of the peripherals, would be inside your smart charger design. The Debugger, the pcb, and some other supporting parts that make evaluation easier, would not have a place in the final design.

Going to ask a less than knowledgeable question: is this kit a breakout board primarily used to explore the capabilities of the XMC7200 in power applications? The board itself would not be incorporated into a project yes/no?

This is great product.

One thing that I came across before is this HomePlug Green PHY 1.1 specification, which relates to using the powerline as the communication medium.

Some/many/all? EV chargers use it. So I am not sure if applicable here to incorporate with testing.

I would still be curious to know whether this is something Infineon provide or could be incorporated within this board or would have to use an external module etc.

www.edmi-meters.com/.../HPGP-Brochure-English.pdf

Kind of what I mean is: can a road test application include a BOM request, or request to cover other specific expenses?

rscasny said:

they were wondering what else would be needed

How would Infineon feel about funding specific projects rather than general parts?

These could maybe be extended projects instead of quick road tests.

I would be interested in seeing @robogary’s RC power wheels tank as well as @dougw ‘s electric bicycle project, for example.

Very interesting product! I suppose the question is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string.

Personally, the only aspect of the product I am interested in experimenting with is how to keep the linux penguins goofing off in the cortex-M7’s from touching the ADC’s being used by a real-time motor control loop running on the cortex-M0.

Regardless, I’m excited to see some of these over moon road-test plans!