About this document Scope and purpose This document describes how to use the 48V battery switch reference design R 48V BATT SWITCH10. The 48V battery switch reference design shows an implementation of an air-cooled high current disconnect switch for automotive 48 V batteries with hall sensor and shunt based current measurement using the following Infineon components: OptiMOS™-5 Power-Transistors IAUT300N08S5N011 and IAUZ40N10S5N130...
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 Safety precautions Safety precautions Note: Please note the following warnings regarding the hazards associated with development systems. Table 1 Safety precautions Caution: The heatsink and the device surfaces of the evaluation or reference board may become hot during testing.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 Table of contents Table of contents About this document ........................1 Important notice ..........................2 Safety precautions .......................... 3 Table of contents ..........................4 The kit at a glance ........................5 Scope of supply ............................
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 The kit at a glance The kit at a glance Scope of supply The 48V battery switch reference design consists of Power board mounted on a heatsink Adaptor board in Arduino shield form factor ...
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 The kit at a glance Block diagram The design of the switch revolves around the 2 channel MOSFET gate driver 2ED4820-EM. Channel A is used to control the power MOSFETs for (dis-)connecting the battery. Channel B drives the MOSFETs for the DC-link precharge circuit.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 The kit at a glance Technical data Table 2 System parameters Parameter Symbol Comment Value Unit Board size power board L x W x H Including heat sink 75 x 100 x 31 mm...
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description System and functional description Getting started Connecting supply and load The 48 V supply has to be connected to the M6 screw terminals marked “BAT+” and “BAT- “. The BAT- terminal is the ground reference of the board.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description Compatibility with other microcontroller boards By default, the reference kit comes equipped with the XMC4700 Relax Lite Kit. However, thanks to the adaptor board in Arduino shield form factor the switch can also be connected to other Arduino UNO compatible microcontroller boards like the AURIX TC375 Lite Kit.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description control of the five MOSFET pairs by a single gate driver channel and leaves the second gate driver channel of the 2ED4820-EM available for the control of the precharge circuit.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description parallel to the power switch. The 2ED4820-EM gate driver channel B is driving a pair of IAUZ40N10S5N130 MOSFETs to turn the prechargarging path ON and OFF. The precharge current is limited by a 10 W power resistor.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description In general, all the extensive diagnosis as well as configuration and control of the gate driver is handled via the SPI interface. Figure 9 Dual channel MOSFET gate driver 2ED4820-EM 2.2.5...
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description ℎ ℎ Since resistors placed in series to the amplifier inputs will influence the gain factor they should be kept as small 0.9 ...
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description 2.2.6 Hall based current sensor In addition to the shunt based current measurement there is a hall based current sensor implemented to provide an alternative current monitoring path for improved functional safety. It is located on the high side, directly after the BAT+ input terminal.
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description At the location of the hall probes this structure yields a magnetic field strength of ~45 µT/A. This so-called current rail transfer factor can be determined either by simulation or by measuring the output voltage of the hall sensor at a given current and using the selected sensitivity range value from the data sheet (in mV/mT) to calculate the transfer factor in µV/A.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description The fast overcurrent detection output OCD of the current sensor can be connected to the SAFESTATEN pin of the gate driver in order to provide a second switch off path for overcurrent events. To enable this functionality the solder jumper on the adaptor board has to be bridged as shown in Figure 15.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description 2.2.8 Microcontroller interface The 20-pin connector X11 provides the interface of the power board to the microcontroller. For the connector pin assignment see Table 5 below. Figure 18 shows the port and pin assigment of those signals for the microcontroller.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description Figure 18 Port and pin assignment XMC4700 Relax Lite Kit Basic operation 2.3.1 Operating the switch via buttons and status LEDs The switch can be controlled by the buttons mounted on the XMC4700 Relax Lite Kit. Several LEDs provide status and diagnosis information.
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description Table 6 Button functionality Button Function Description RESET Reset Microcontroller reset BUTTON2 Safestate Pull SAFESTATEN pin low to initiate the 2ED4820-EM safe state BUTTON1 ON/OFF Switch on or off, including initialisation and precharge...
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description 2.3.2 Operating the switch via command line interface The firmware of the XMC4700 microcontroller provides a simple command line interface for extended configuration, control, and diagnosis of the 48V Battery Switch. To use it a standard terminal emulator program for serial port communication like TeraTerm or PuTTY is needed.
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description Figure 23 Welcome message As mentioned in the welcome message, the command “?” will list all available commands with a short explanation on how to use them.
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description Switching on and off Similar to the push buttons on the microcontroller boards the switch can be turned on or off by the commands “on” and “off”.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description Column 1 is the register number, column 2 the register name, column 3 shows the hex value of the register content. Columns 4 to 11 show the register bit names.
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description The gate driver doesn’t need to be enabled to display or change the configuration. When the driver is disabled, the current configuration is stored to be used in the next initialisation with the command “init”.
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description Command Description Setting Value cross control deactivated cross control activated csag Current sense amplifier gain 10 V/V 15 V/V 20 V/V 25 V/V 31.5 V/V 35 V/V 40 V/V 47.7 V/V...
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System and functional description Hall sensor sensitivity Before shipment the sensitivity of the hall sensor is set to 4.8 mV/A. If this value should be changed by the user, the configuration setting has to be adjusted accordingly in order to ensure a correct current measurement. The value can be set with the command “hss”, followed by the sensitivity in µV/A.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System design System design Power board Figure 28 Power board dimensions User Guide 27 of 46 Rev. 1.0 2022-03-09...
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System design Figure 29 Heatsink dimensions The heatsink is based on the SK 81/75/SA from Fischer Elektronik with a specified Rth of 2.5 K/W. User Guide 28 of 46 Rev. 1.0...
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System design 3.1.1 Power board schematics Figure 30 Power board schematics User Guide 29 of 46 Rev. 1.0 2022-03-09...
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System design 3.1.2 Power board layout The power board PCB is manufactured in the QIT technology from Schweizer Electronics AG. It is a three-layer board with an 800 µm inner copper core and two outer layers with 70 µm each.
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48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System design Figure 33 Power board middle layer Figure 34 Power board bottom layer User Guide 31 of 46 Rev. 1.0 2022-03-09...
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System design 3.1.3 Power board bill of material Table 10 BOM Power Board Designator Value Package Description Manufacturer Man. Ord. Num. 1206 GRM-Series General MuRata GRM31CR72A105KA01 Purpose Monolithic Ceramic Capacitor 10uF...
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System performance System performance Thermal performance The power board is mounted on an aluminum heat sink for cooling. Due to the thermal prepreg layer between the middle and the bottom layer there is no need for extra isolation between the board and the heat sink. Even without adding thermal grease the performance is sufficient.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System performance Precharging As described in chapter 2.3 “Basic operation”, the precharge path will be activated for a configurable time before switching on the main path, when the switch is turned on by pressing button 1 or with the “on”...
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System performance Overcurrent detection via shunt resistor As described in chapter 2.4 “Configuration” the factory setting of the overcurrent shutdown threshold for the MOSFET gate driver is 413 A typical. Figure 50 shows the waveforms for a short circuit, applied to an activated switch without load.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 System performance Overcurrent detection with hall sensor For testing the overcurrent detection of the hall based current sensor TLE4972-AE35D5 the OCD1 output has to be connected to the SAFESTATEN input of the gate driver 2ED4820-EM as described in Figure 15. The overcurrent detection threshold of the 2ED4820-EM needs to be disabled by setting it to a significantly higher value in order not to interfere with the hall sensor measurement.
48V Battery Switch Reference Design R 48V BATT Switch10 Revision history Revision history Document Date of release Description of changes version Rev. 1.0 2022-03-09 Initial release User Guide 45 of 46 Rev. 1.0 2022-03-09...