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Selection of a microcontroller experimental kit for solar inverter application.

sibin mohan
Prodigy 220 points
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Hi,

I am looking for a microcontroller for solar inverter application. I have seen that C2000 series are suitable for this. I am looking for a experimental board so that I can directly access the ADC, DAC, ePWM and GPIO pins. I have seen F28335 and F28377D experimenter board, but in that only few pins are available in breadboard for connection. So if choose that board, whether I can access all pins without making any modification or soldering to the breadboard. 

I am searching for a board, in which all ADC, ePWM and GPIO pins are available for external connection without making any soldering or modification on the board.

Since I am using MATLAB Simulink, I am looking for a board which is compatible with embedded coder in MATLAB. 

Please provide me a suggestion. Your helps will be really appreciated.

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    Guru 192875 points
    Hi Sibin,

    There's no such experimenter's kit or dev board with all the pins available for users. You need to develop your own if you need such a config.
    Though you can check SD's ezDSP-F28335 kit. That's the maximum you can get in a kit.

    Regards,
    Gautam
  • 0 in reply to Gautam Iyer
    TI__Guru 57255 points

    Hi Sibin,

    I'll add a pinch more detail here...

    While the experimenter's kit/controlCARD does not bring all the chip's signals to headers, it does bring the majority of them.  For example, on the F28377D experimenter's kit you should have access to > 80 IO signals and all the ADC signals.

    You can take a look at the "MCU pin" column in the file below to get some idea:
    \controlSUITE\development_kits\~controlCARDs\TMDSCNCD28377D_v1_2\R1_1\TMDSCNCD28377D_180cCARD_pinout_R1_1.pdf

    While the F28335 controlCARD's collateral does not have the same look/feel, this cCARD also brings out most of the chip's resources.  You can refer to the controlCARD/Experimenter's Kit schematics for more detail.

    For now, the 'F28335 may be a better choice if you're looking to use Matlab's embedded coder since it will have better support.  The flip-side of the argument is that the F28377D will be more powerful and have a fair amount of new interesting peripherals (if you think you may need the resources).


    Thank you,
    Brett