XMC digital power explorer kit with XMC4200 and XMC1300 Quick Start Guide The XMC digital power explorer kit is an evaluation board that introduces the user into digital power control with Infineons XMC4000 and XMC1000 families of ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. It is comprised of a power board featuring a synchronous buck converter. Two different control cards can be connected to the power board: XMC4200 control card with HRPWM peripheral and ARM Cortex-M4 core for high performance applications XMC1300 control card with XMC peripherals and ARM Cortex-M0 core for cost optimized solution Both control cards contain an isolated On-Board Debugger (OBD), so no external debugger is needed to flash and debug the main controller on the control card. XMC digital power explorer kit is designed to support voltage control mode and current control mode (peak current control with slope compensation). By using the master and slave connectors, it is also possi- ble to control a second XMC digital power explorer with a single control card. High resolution PWM (150 ps PWM resolution) peripheral in XMC4200 MCU series is a dedicated peripheral to cover the most demanding requirements in digital power control applications. Additionally, this series inte- grates 3 analog comparators with automatic slope generation (10-bits resolution) and smart post-process- ing that permits extremely accurate and flexible control with minimum CPU load and lowest system cost. XMC1300 MCU features most of the peripherals included in XMC4200 like CCU timers, ADC and serial commu- nication, and also adds analog comparators and a MATH co-processor unit which are tailored to fulfill more cost sensitive applications. Software examples for this kit are available for download on DAVE website ( www.infineon.com/dave). These examples demonstrate the capabilities of XMC4000 and XMC1000 MCU series in digital power control applications and ease-of-use and flexibility of DAVE software. User Manuals including detailed hardware description and schematics for all 3 boards and their design files can be found on www.infineon.com/xmc dp expStep by step installation guide for XMC digital power explorer kit STEP 1 Install DAVE DAVE is a free and powerful eclipse-based development platform for XMC software development. DAVE includes GCC compiler from GNU, DAVE code engine for automatic code generation and GDB debugger from GNU. DAVE offers pre-defined and tested SW components -DAVE APPs- and XMC Lib - Low Level Drivers (LLDs)- that accelerate the application software creation. To install DAVE follow these steps: Download and execute the latest version of DAVE installation file from www.infineon.com/DAVE Follow the installation guidelines that are included in the download package STEP 2 Plug in a control card Plug one of the control cards into the power board in such way that the control cardnose goes through the drillings on the power board (see Figure 1) Load banks Figure 1 IMPORTANT NOTE: The power board contains resistive load banks (Figure 1). These loads are purely resistive and during operation may become hot. To prevent injuries, special care is advised when touching the on-board resistor banks during the operation. Any other kind of load, including other resistors, can be connected to the connectorV for out the purpose of further test or evaluation (blue connector). Using this kit without taking necessary measures for cooling and isolating external loads may cause personal injuries. This evaluation board is intended for use only by qualified and skilled technical staff for laboratory usage. Please read disclaimer page carefully before using this kit.