e-peas AEM10941 Evaluation Board

e-peas AEM10941 Evaluation Board provides a demonstration and development platform for the AEM10941 Solar Energy Harvesting IC. The AEM10941 is an integrated Ambient Energy Manager (AEM) that can extract DC power from up to 7-cell solar panels, simultaneously storing energy in a rechargeable element and supplying the system with two independent regulated voltages.

The AEM10941 Evaluation Board includes a pre-mounted AEM10941 IC in a QFN28 package, along with all the needed support components and jumpers to configure the device.

The AEM10941 Evaluation Board allows users to test the e-peas AEM10941 and analyze its performances in a laboratory-like setting. It allows easy connections to the energy harvester, the storage element, and the low-voltage and high-voltage loads. It also provides all the conﬁguration access to set the device in any one of the modes described in the datasheet. The control and status signals are available on standard pin headers, allowing users to wire for any usage scenario and evaluate the relevant performance.

Features

Four two-way screw terminals
- Source of energy (PV cell)
- Low-voltage load
- High-voltage load
- Primary energy storage element
One three-way screw terminal
- Energy storage element (battery or supercapacitor)
One zero insertion force (ZIF) connector
- Alternative connection for the source
One 2-pin ”Shrouded Header”
- Alternative connection for the storage element
Three 2-pin headers
- Primary battery configuration
- Cold-start configuration

Eight 3-pin headers
- Maximum power point (MPP) configuration
- Low drop-out regulators (LDOs) enabling
- Energy storage elements and LDOs configuration
- Dual-cell supercapacitor configuration
Provision for ten resistors
- Custom mode configuration
- Cold start configuration
- Primary battery configuration
Three 1-pin headers
- Access to status pins
76mm x 50mm PCB dimensions

e-peas AEM10941 Evaluation Board

Features

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