TIDUF63A December 2023 – June 2024
The PV panel requires a special control of the voltage and current to achieve maximum power (MPPT). MPPT is described in Section 2.2.
To enable MPPT operation, the design has voltage and current measurements of each input channel. Input channels are placed in the same potential as the MCU and do not need to be isolated. This enables the use of cost competitive non-isolated shunt-based current-sensing design based on the INA181 amplifier. INA181 is a bidirectional voltage output current-sense amplifier. The device has reference voltage input that is used to measure negative current during battery charging. INA181A3 has an internal gain set up to 100 V/V and a bandwidth of 150 kHz.
Voltage sense is implemented with a resistive divider and the low-voltage general purpose operation amplifier LM321LV configured as a voltage follower. The voltage follower circuit needs to decrease impedance of the sense line, increase noise immunity, and mitigate error from ADC input impedance.