The PMP41115 integrated 240-W USB Type-C and USB PD3.1 charger reference design developed by Texas Instruments integrates USB Type-C and USB power delivery for 10 to 12 cell batteries for applications such as e-bikes, high-capacity power banks, and portable power-station applications.
The design leverages the company’s TPS26750 and TPD4S480 USB PD3.1 controllers with a 48-V extended power range USB port protector.Also incorporated is the BQ25756 four-switch buck boost controller for USB PD3.1 functionality at 240 W.
The PD controller talks to the charger controller through I2C, and the BQ25756 accepts a wide-range input with four-switch buck-boost configuration. Coupled with seamless transition from buck, boost, and buck-boost operation mode, it forms a highly efficient, highly accurate, and reliable charger design featuring 48-V short-to-VBUS, overvoltage, and electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection, operating at 97.6% full load efficiency.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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