I have a prototyping question regarding the BQ24650. I'm in my final year of electrical engineering, and I plan on using this chip in my final design project, I've already designed my schematic from TI's datasheet. My solar panel is an 8 amp, 23 V panel. I would do SPICE simulation, but unfortunately a spice model for this doesn't exist. Now on to the question...
The charge current i s 8 amps, which is a fair amount of current, but in any event, far more than either a breadboard or a proto-board could handle. I was looking at using a "dead bug" board, where the IC's are glued onto a copper plate, which acts as both the ground plane, and the heatsink, and they are connected with point-to-point wires. However, 8 amps would require at least 20 gauge wire, whose diameter is larger than the distance between pins on the QFN-16 package that this IC come in.
That said, without purchasing the evaluation board, how does one actually prototype this beast? Thanks,