TIDUEP0 May 2020
The TIDA-010057 reference design provides a provision for users to monitor system current, bus-voltage, and power consumption. TI’s INA231 28V, 16-bit, I2C output current/voltage/power monitor is used to monitor various sections of the design. The Fig. 1 shows the circuit schematic in which the INA231 ICs are indicated in red boxes. Three INAs are implemented in the schematic. One INA measures the total current and power consumed in the system. The other two INAs will monitor the current and powers of Transmitter (Tx) and FPGA units respectively.
The communication is done through the I2C interface. FX3 module (FX3 CYUSB8301x) in the power board is configured as the master and the INAs are configured as slaves. The measured voltage, current and power values can be dynamically plotted against time as shown in Figure 23. The described figure is generated using python by capturing the data sent by FX3. The same data is available in the latest version on AFEs FX3 code Slavefifosync.img.