ADI has established an ecosystem with partner companies, specifically to assist its customers in developing innovative power-management solutions in areas such as battery management systems (BMS).
Visitors to the ADI stand will be able to see designs created by industrial partner Stercom Power Solutions, offering expertise in advanced battery management systems tailored for energy storage applications. Also shown on the stand will be open platforms from the Fraunhofer IISB, an applied research institute in Erlangen, Germany, which has created the foxBMS. This has been conceived as the ultimate open source development platform for battery management, applicable to industrial systems such as energy storage and guided vehicles (ESS/AGVs) and automotive applications (EV/HEVs), says ADI.
A demonstration will highlight ADI’s offering for system integrators and designers working in the field of energy storage in high power systems, where they are challenged to deliver ever-higher levels of conversion efficiency. The demonstration will feature a reference design for a 30kW DC/DC charger for high power energy storage, developed by ADI’s partner Stercom Power Solutions.
The power converter is a high voltage, high frequency design employing silicon carbide (SiC) technology that targets both static energy storage and electric vehicles, yielding 99% power conversion efficiency resulting in a 30% smaller charging unit.