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

rscasny
rscasny over 2 years ago

imageHi All.

I have been in conversation with a roadtest sponsor who is excited to have the community test in the coming year a powerful microcontroller that's designed for industrial applications including VFDs, electrical vehicle (EV) charging, two-wheel electrical vehicles (e-bikes) and robotics. I want to tell you a little about it and give you some resources to review. I'm seeking some ideas of how community members would roadtest the kit. This is important because, in my initial conversation with them, they were wondering what else would be needed to be provided with the kit. Ex. Motor? Sensors? Other?

The kit is based on the Infineon XMC7200 microcontroller and part of the family of XMC7000 microcontrollers, which offer single and dual core options of 350-MHz 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M7 and a 100-MHz 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M0+, up to 8 MB of embedded flash and 1 MB of on-chip SRAM. The products operate from 2.7 to 5.5 V and achieve full specification from -40°C to 125°C.

For More Information About The Kit

You would get the following in the kit:

  • XMC7200 evaluation board
  • USB Type-A to Mirco-B cable
  • 12V/3A DC power adapter with additional blades
  • Six jumper wires (five inches each)
  • Quick start guide
  • Other--what else would you need?

Here are some documents for further study:

  • Product Presentation
  • Datasheet
  • Getting Started
  • App Note
  • User Manual
  • Release Notes

Feel free to offer your thoughts and ideas in the comments section below.

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  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 2 years ago +4
    Its an interesting processor and board. There is a lot of stuff in that processor chip - you would be spending a LOT more than 40 hours just reading the data and getting to understand how it works. Then…
  • shabaz
    shabaz over 2 years ago +3
    Infineon microcontrollers are absolutely awesome. The older ones used the 'DAVE' programming environment, but these newer ones use Modus Toolbox. The processor is powerful, but Infineon microcontrollers…
  • rscasny
    rscasny over 2 years ago in reply to ntewinkel +3
    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…
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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 2 years ago

    Infineon microcontrollers are absolutely awesome.

    The older ones used the 'DAVE' programming environment, but these newer ones use Modus Toolbox.

    The processor is powerful, but Infineon microcontrollers usually have very nice integrated peripherals too, and good API (at least with DAVE, the APIs were very nice), for all sorts of industrial applications.

    For this particular device, it would be interesting to see RoadTest reviews that would exercise (and the user to provide their code!) at least the CAN, Ethernet and the configurable serial blocks.

    It's also got very interesting memory interfaces, and also support high-speed writing to SD cards, which is neat for logging loads of data, measurements, etc.

    It's an extremely powerful, feature-rich processor, and the board looks well thought-out too. Also interesting to see M.2 interface on the board, which has SDIO and UART it looks like connected to it.

    It's really a case of how deep a user wants to go, to review such a product. It's super-feature-rich.

    With an old XMOS Xcore microcontroller, since that was a totally new concept to most people (including me), I wrote three blogs that described the architecture and then went into example projects with it. (link to first blog is here in case it helps show what I mean). Probably, this Infineon chip needs a slightly similar thing to get people up-to-speed. But, I'm concerned, most people won't be interested to read the review (which then doesn't help anyone), unless it's really targetted to the potential users of this product. Therefore it would be a shame seeing this board being used to flash neopixels (unless it was demonstrating some underlying OS or important middleware). 

    It would be nice to spend time learning to use this microcontroller, it's a big time investment for sure, and would need several blogs perhaps spaced a few weeks apart. Provided a long application isn't needed, I'd love to apply : ) I'd rather be learning stuff over Xmas than not : )

    Same as Michael, I don't have a current project for this, so if I was selected really it would only be an explanation of the technology and how to use it, with example hardware/software, prototyped onto the development board, i.e. no actual end device being made.

    In terms of extras, perhaps the less the better, so that the focus is on using the microcontroller. However, I have not used CAN, and would require some sort of simple CAN node to attach to. I don't know what, perhaps others can suggest that.

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    shabaz over 2 years ago

    Infineon microcontrollers are absolutely awesome.

    The older ones used the 'DAVE' programming environment, but these newer ones use Modus Toolbox.

    The processor is powerful, but Infineon microcontrollers usually have very nice integrated peripherals too, and good API (at least with DAVE, the APIs were very nice), for all sorts of industrial applications.

    For this particular device, it would be interesting to see RoadTest reviews that would exercise (and the user to provide their code!) at least the CAN, Ethernet and the configurable serial blocks.

    It's also got very interesting memory interfaces, and also support high-speed writing to SD cards, which is neat for logging loads of data, measurements, etc.

    It's an extremely powerful, feature-rich processor, and the board looks well thought-out too. Also interesting to see M.2 interface on the board, which has SDIO and UART it looks like connected to it.

    It's really a case of how deep a user wants to go, to review such a product. It's super-feature-rich.

    With an old XMOS Xcore microcontroller, since that was a totally new concept to most people (including me), I wrote three blogs that described the architecture and then went into example projects with it. (link to first blog is here in case it helps show what I mean). Probably, this Infineon chip needs a slightly similar thing to get people up-to-speed. But, I'm concerned, most people won't be interested to read the review (which then doesn't help anyone), unless it's really targetted to the potential users of this product. Therefore it would be a shame seeing this board being used to flash neopixels (unless it was demonstrating some underlying OS or important middleware). 

    It would be nice to spend time learning to use this microcontroller, it's a big time investment for sure, and would need several blogs perhaps spaced a few weeks apart. Provided a long application isn't needed, I'd love to apply : ) I'd rather be learning stuff over Xmas than not : )

    Same as Michael, I don't have a current project for this, so if I was selected really it would only be an explanation of the technology and how to use it, with example hardware/software, prototyped onto the development board, i.e. no actual end device being made.

    In terms of extras, perhaps the less the better, so that the focus is on using the microcontroller. However, I have not used CAN, and would require some sort of simple CAN node to attach to. I don't know what, perhaps others can suggest that.

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