Switch Mode Power Control: Investigating the LED BoosterPack

RE: Switch Mode Power Control: Investigating the LED BoosterPack

Jan Cumps — Fri, 04 May 2018 17:45:50 GMT

nothing to see here. move on please

(I smoked some components on the board, end of blog series)

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RE: Switch Mode Power Control: Investigating the LED BoosterPack

jc2048 — Tue, 01 May 2018 21:20:41 GMT

One of the promotional leaflets suggests that the schematics are with the controlSUITE software for the C2000.

I didn't realise that the board was so tightly coupled with the processor (to the extent that the processor is doing the loop-control of the driver); I thought they were conventional LED drivers on there. Is your Hercules board going to be fast enough to keep up - the C2000 processor appears to have a TMS320 DSP as its core?

RE: Switch Mode Power Control: Investigating the LED BoosterPack

Jan Cumps — Tue, 01 May 2018 19:31:11 GMT

For my reference, from the BoosterPack User's Guide:

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I can now determine from this table and the C2000 LaunchPad schematics what pins on the BoosterPack need to be entertained ...

RE: Switch Mode Power Control: Investigating the LED BoosterPack

DAB — Tue, 01 May 2018 18:52:56 GMT

Hi Jan,

I always felt that the C2000 processor did not get enough credit.

I do have the LED board, but I never got around to playing with it.

I look forward to seeing what you find, it might inspire me to dig mine out.

By the way, I would be interested in your assessment of the super PWM mode on the C2000. It looked like it could give you some very good servo control.

DAB