TIDUF04 December   2022

 

  1.   Description
  2.   Resources
  3.   Features
  4.   Applications
  5.   5
  6. 1System Description
    1.     7
    2. 1.1 EV Charging Station Challenges
      1. 1.1.1 SAE J1772 or Equivalent Standard Compliant EV Charging Stations
      2. 1.1.2 AC and DC Leakage, Residual Current Detection (RCD)
      3. 1.1.3 Efficient Relay and Contactor Drive
      4. 1.1.4 Contact Weld Detection
    3. 1.2 Key System Specifications
  7. 2System Overview
    1. 2.1 Block Diagram
    2. 2.2 Design Considerations
      1. 2.2.1 Isolated AC/DC Power Supply Design
        1. 2.2.1.1  Input Bulk Capacitance and Minimum Bulk Voltage
        2. 2.2.1.2  Transformer Turns-Ratio, Primary Inductance, and Primary Peak Current
        3. 2.2.1.3  Transformer Parameter Calculations: Primary and Secondary RMS Currents
        4. 2.2.1.4  Main Switching Power MOSFET Selection
        5. 2.2.1.5  Rectifying Diode Selection
        6. 2.2.1.6  Output Capacitor Selection
        7. 2.2.1.7  Capacitance on VDD Pin
        8. 2.2.1.8  Open-loop Voltage Regulation Versus Pin Resistor Divider, Line Compensation Resistor
        9. 2.2.1.9  Feedback Elements
        10. 2.2.1.10 Backup Power Supply
        11. 2.2.1.11 Supercapacitor Selection
        12. 2.2.1.12 Supercapacitor Charger Design
      2. 2.2.2 Control Pilot Signal Interface
        1. 2.2.2.1 J1772 Duty Cycle
          1. 2.2.2.1.1 Control Pilot Signal States
          2. 2.2.2.1.2 Control Pilot Signal Circuit
      3. 2.2.3 Relay Drive and Weld Detect
      4. 2.2.4 Residual Current Detection
        1. 2.2.4.1 Auto-Oscillation Circuit
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        2. 2.2.4.2 DRV8220 H-Bridge
        3. 2.2.4.3 Saturation Detection Circuit
        4. 2.2.4.4 H-Bridge Controlled by DFF
        5. 2.2.4.5 Filter Stage
        6. 2.2.4.6 Differential to Single-Ended Converter
        7. 2.2.4.7 Low-Pass Filter
        8. 2.2.4.8 Full-Wave Rectifier
        9. 2.2.4.9 MCU Selection
    3. 2.3 Highlighted Products
      1. 2.3.1  UCC28742
      2. 2.3.2  TLV1805
      3. 2.3.3  DRV8220
      4. 2.3.4  ISO1212
      5. 2.3.5  ADC122S051
      6. 2.3.6  TPS7A39
      7. 2.3.7  TPS7A20
      8. 2.3.8  ATL431
      9. 2.3.9  TL431
      10. 2.3.10 TPS563210A
      11. 2.3.11 TPS55330
      12. 2.3.12 TPS259470
      13. 2.3.13 TL7705A
  8. 3Hardware, Testing Requirements, and Test Results
    1. 3.1 Hardware Requirements
    2. 3.2 Test Requirements
      1. 3.2.1 Power Supply Test Setup
      2. 3.2.2 Weld Detect Test Setup
    3. 3.3 Test Results
      1. 3.3.1 Isolated AC/DC Power Supply Based on UCC28742
        1. 3.3.1.1 Efficiency and Output Voltage Cross Regulation
        2. 3.3.1.2 Efficiency and Output Voltage Regulation of TPS563210
        3. 3.3.1.3 Output Voltage Ripple Waveforms
        4. 3.3.1.4 Start, Shutdown, Backup Power, and Transient Response Waveforms
        5. 3.3.1.5 Thermal Performance
      2. 3.3.2 TLV1805-Based Control Pilot Interface
        1. 3.3.2.1 TLV1805 Output Rise and Fall Time
        2. 3.3.2.2 Control Pilot Signal Voltage Accuracy in Different States
      3. 3.3.3 DRV8220-Based Relay and Plug Lock Drive
      4. 3.3.4 ISO1212-Based Isolated Line Voltage Sensing
  9. 4Design and Documentation Support
    1. 4.1 Design Files
      1. 4.1.1 Schematics
      2. 4.1.2 Bill of Materials
    2. 4.2 Documentation Support
    3. 4.3 Support Resources
    4. 4.4 Trademarks
  10. 5About the Author

2.2.4.9 MCU Selection

For this design, the MSP430F5131 MCU is chosen for the high clock speed required for timer capture DC fault detection. The timer capture method directly measured duty cycle changes by triggering a timer on each duty cycle edge, so a high clock speed was required. This timer capture method is used in many existing RCD modules. Alternatively, a lower BOM cost is possible by reading DC fault with an ADC instead of using the timer capture method.

The most important specification of MCU selection is the integrated ADC. The ADC must have an effective resolution small enough to consistently differentiate between a fault. This design sees a 200-mV filter output during a 6-mA DC fault, and 600-mV maximum filter output during an 30-mARMS AC fault(1). This design uses a 10-bit ADC with a full scale range of 1.5 V integrated in the MSP430F5131 MCU.

The ADC needs a sample speed faster than 2000 samples per second. The software stores the low value read by the ADC and uses the low value to determine if an AC or DC fault occurred. The ADC must sample quickly enough to consistently detect a low value during an AC waveform to differentiate AC versus DC fault.

The largest source of noise is the ADC reference voltage error. This design has a total reference voltage error of 1.5%. The fault detection signal needs to be amplified as much as possible to make this error less significant.

1. These fault threshold values can be increased by increasing the gain of the filter stage.