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VCP Monitor Click Board™

VCP Monitor Click Board™

Measurement of Voltage, Current and Power
SKU: MIKROE-4039
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Overview

The VCP Monitor Click Board™ is an add-on board power monitor system. This Click Board™ is based on INA260AIPWR - precision digital current and power monitor with low-drift, integrated precision shunt resistor, from Texas Instruments. Therefore, using VCP Monitor Click, current, voltage and power can be monitored. The integrated current-sensing resistor ensures measurement stability over temperature as well as simplifying printed-circuit board layout difficulties common in high precision current sensing measurements.

The VCP Monitor click is supported by a mikroSDK compliant library, which includes functions that simplify software development. This Click Board™ comes as a fully tested product, ready to be used on a system equipped with the mikroBUS™ socket.

How Does The VCP Monitor Click Board™ Work?

The VCP Monitor Click Board™ is power monitor system, which includes precision measurement of current, voltage and power with low-drift. The main IC on the VCP Monitor click is INA260AIPWR. The current-sensing resistor is designed as a 4 wire connected resistor that enables accurate measurements through a force-sense connection. The INA260AIPWR is internally calibrated to ensure that the current-sensing resistor and current-sensing amplifier are both precisely matched to one another.

VCP Monitor Click Board™

The INA260AIPWR device performs two measurements on power supply bus. The current measurement on LOAD connector, is internally calculated by measuring the voltage developed across a known internal shunt resistor. The features is a physical shunt resistance that is able to withstand current levels higher than the continuous handling limit of 15 A without sustaining damage to the current-sensing resistor or the current-sensing amplifier if the excursions are very brief. The voltage measurement on SUPPLY connector witch is calculated by measuring the voltage from the external VBUS pin to ground. The voltage monitored range from 0V to 36V

The INA260AIPWR device performs two measurements on power supply bus. The current measurement on LOAD connector, is internally calculated by measuring the voltage developed across a known internal shunt resistor, and voltage measurement on SUPPLY connector wich is calculated by measuring the voltage from the external VBUS pin to ground.

The VCP Monitor click is compatibility with I2C communication protocol. The INA260AIPWR has two slave address selection pins, A0 and A1. For I2C slave address selection, VCP Monitor click has two cross-shape jumpers, first for set pin A0 and second for set A1 pin. One cross-shape jumper has four position for select address pin which can be selected with a SMD 0 ohm resistor, address pin can be connected to GND, VS, SCL or SDA pins. The VCP Monitor click with the two separate jumper on Click board™ user can to set the desired address. The INA260AIPWR provides the opportunity of the 16 possible different I2C addresses.

I2C SLAVE ADDRESS SELECTION

A1 A0 Slave address
GND GND 1000000
GND VS 1000001
GND SDA 1000010
GND SCL 1000011
VS GND 1000100
VS VS 1000101
VS SDA 1000110
VS SCL 1000111
SDA GND 1001000
SDA VS 1001001
SDA SDA 1001010
SDA SCL 1001011
SCL GND 1001100
SCL VS 1001101
SCL SDA 1001110
SCL SCL 1001111

The INA260AIPWR is supported with ALERT pin, which is connected to the INT pin on mikroBUS™, in order to interrupt the ongoing MCU routine in case of the alert condition. INT pin can be programmed to respond to a user-defined event or to a conversion ready notification.

The voltage level of the logic section can be selected via VCC SEL jumper, between 3.3V and 5V. This allows for both 3.3V and 5V capable MCUs to use the I2C communication lines properly.

SPECIFICATIONS

Type Current sensor
Applications VCP Monitor click click is a perfect solution for the development of the Power Managment system, Battery Chargers and Power Supplies.
On-board modules NA260AIPWR, a digital-output, current, power, and voltage monitor with an I2C and SMBus™-compatible interfacefrom Texas Instruments
Key Features Current Sense Resistance: 2 mΩ, Tolerance Equivalent to 0.1%, 15-A Continuous From –40°C to +85°C, 16 Programmable Addresses.
Interface I2C
Compatibility mikroBUS
Click board size M (42.9 x 25.4 mm)
Input Voltage 3.3V or 5V

 

PINOUT DIAGRAM

This table shows how the pinout on VCP Monitor click corresponds to the pinout on the mikroBUS™ socket (the latter shown in the two middle columns).

Notes Pin Mikrobus logo.png Pin Notes
  NC 1 AN PWM 16 NC  
  NC 2 RST INT 15 INT Interrupt OUT
  NC 3 CS RX 14 NC  
  NC 4 SCK TX 13 NC  
  NC 5 MISO SCL 12 SCL I2C Clock
  NC 6 MOSI SDA 11 SDA I2C Data
Power Supply 3.3V 7 3.3V 5V 10 5V Power supply
Ground GND 8 GND GND 9 GND Ground

ONBOARD SETTINGS AND INDICATORS

Label Name Default  Description
PWR PWR - Power LED Indicator
JP1 VCC SEL Left Power supply voltage selection 3v3/5v: left position 3v3, right position 5v
JP2,JP3 ADD A0 Left 4-position I2C address Selection toward host mcu: left - GND; Right - VCC; Up - SCL; Down - SDA
JP4,JP5 ADD A1 Right 4-position I2C address Selection toward host mcu: left - GND; Right - VCC; Up - SCL; Down - SDA

VCP MONITOR CLICK ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Description Min Typ Max Unit
Input voltage (SUPPLY terminal) 0   36 V
Out voltage (LOAD terminal) 0   36 V
OUT Current (LOAD terminal) -15   15 A

 

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