Industrial designs fall into a variety of categories and require a wide assortment of solutions, depending on their specific functions and level of sophistication. Avnet features the extensive portfolio of products from Microchip. Discover the right solutions to meet your industrial design needs. Here are just a few examples of industrial application areas that we support:
- Home Appliances
- Intelligent Lighting and Control
- Metering and Smart Energy
- Motor Control
- Smart Embedded Vision
- Advanced Sensor Interfacing
- Energy Management
- Smart Automation
- Digital Power Conversion & PoE
1700V Auxiliary Power Supply Reference Design (SiC)
Increasing voltage, efficiency and reliability demands in industrial and solar equipment requires an offline Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS) that is low-cost and high-performance. The auxiliary power supply is an essential part of a power converter that converts the electric power from High Voltage (HV) DC bus to a Low Voltage (LV) source for powering control circuits, sensing circuits, cooling fans and other equipment. A low-power (<100W) power converter with galvanic isolation is one of the most important components in industrial and PV applications. Many of these auxiliary power supplies must operate from a wide input voltage range, typically ranging from 250V to 1000V because of the DC link voltage variation. To ensure the overall reliability of the power converter system, this converter must have a simple topology and a low component count.
Features:
- Single-switch flyback topology
- 250V–1000V wide input voltage
- +24V/2A and +15V/1A dual outputs and total output power of 63W
- High power conversion efficiency over wide power range
- Current-mode Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) controller-based closed-loop control
Applications:
- Industrial motor drives
- Solar inverters
- Uninterruptible power supplies
- General-purpose inverters
- Cascaded H-bridge converters
- Modular multilevel converters
Hardware components:
1700V Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET
150 kVA 3-Phase SiC Power Stack Reference Design (SiC)
The “electrification of everything” is driving the need for higher levels of power fidelity. Designers of electric vehicles, commercial transportation, renewable energy, and energy storage systems can benefit from Silicon Carbide (SiC) stack solutions that drive performance and cost efficiencies and accelerate time to market by up to six months.
This Mersen SiC Power Stack reference design helps inverter designers save time and confusion in selecting individual components and can greatly benefit from a solution that is optimally pre-designed for their specific application.
Features:
- 16 kW/L power density
- Up to 130°CTj
- Peak efficiency 98%
- SiC MOSFET power modules: Microchip® MSCSM120AM042CD3AG
- AgileSwitch® 2ASC-12A1HP Gate Driver core
- 700 VDC/ 200 ARMS
- Compact water cooled
- Up to 20 kHz switching Frequency
Applications:
- Industrial
- Renewable Energies
- DC Smart Grid
- E-Mobility
Hardware components:
Phase Leg SiC Power Module
AgileSwitch® High Performance SiC Gate Driver Core
Smart Metering Platform
Microchip’s PIC32CXMT family of 32-bit MPUs have a new MPL460 Power Line Communication (PLC) modem available in three variants based on a single Arm® Cortex®-M4F core, a dual Arm Cortex-M4 core and a system-on-chip (SoC) device to streamline smart meter and communications infrastructure development.
The PIC32CXMT family and MPL460 modem are supported by Microchip’s MPLAB® Harmony v3 embedded software framework. Other resources include IAR Systems, Arm, Keil Development Environment, G3-PLC and PRIME software.
Agricultural IoT with LoRaWAN and 8-bit MCUs
This example shows how the AVR64DD32 can be used to create a LoRaWAN end node that monitors temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and soil moisture and transmits that data every three minutes to an application via The Things Network (TTN).
The node can be placed anywhere between ten meters and five kilometers from a LoRaWAN gateway in urban environments, but the range is wider for suburban locations. The design demonstrates how an end node, even at long range, can be configured to consume very low power/have long battery life, while securely moving valuable data. This design can be scaled easily to enable the capture of soil variability data by placing additional nodes throughout an agricultural plot without the need to add additional gateways or infrastructure.
This demo uses the RN2903A module which operates on the 915 MHz frequency band and is suitable for US and Australia based projects, but the project is easily adapted to work in other regions by selecting an alternate Click board™ and gateway for your region.
Weather Click
Scalable Solutions for Power Conversion Applications
An intelligent power supply does not need to be complex or expensive. We deliver everything you need to create your power conversion design: low-risk product development, lower total system cost, faster time to market, outstanding technical support, dependable delivery and quality. Offering MCUs and DSCs ranging from 6 to 144 pins, we have a suitable device for every application. Many of our MCUs and DSCs have innovative on-chip peripherals that are designed specifically for power conversion. These peripherals include fast Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) modules with special operating modes and high-speed Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) for fast acquisition of power supply feedback signals.
Digital Power Starter Kit: (DM330017-3)
Starter Kit Features:
- dsPIC33CK Single Core Digital Signal Controller (DSC)
- Buck & Boost Converter Stage
- Boost Converter Stage
- PICkit™ On-Board (PKOB) Programmer/Debugger Circuit
- USB/UART Hub and Bridge
- Temperature Sensor
- 2x16 Character LCD
- Loads Control / Reset / User Push Buttons
Digital Signal Controller
Power Over Ethernet (PoE)
Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a revolutionary technology that enables delivery of power over standard Ethernet infrastructure to facilitate quick and easy installation of WLAN access points, network cameras, IP telephones and other IP-based devices. The proliferation of Ethernet-connected devices such as Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) security cameras, 802.11ac and 802.11ax access points, LED luminaires and Internet of Things (IoT) appliances has created an unprecedented demand for more power. PoE is the key to efficiently, cost-effectively and reliably power network devices.
Microchip is an innovator and thought leader in PoE technology, as well as a major contributor to the IEEE® 802.3af, 802.3at and 802.3bt standards. We offer a comprehensive end-to-end portfolio of PoE solutions comprised of PoE ICs and PoE systems (PoE midspans/injectors and switches). As both a system and chipset supplier, we provide foolproof PoE solutions to address your unique business requirements.
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Smart Metering Gateway Platform
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