Select your power with new EV charger reference designs

The reliability and performance of EV chargers are critical to drive global market adoption. EV manufacturers are focused on providing the most robust, weather-resistant and user-friendly EV chargers. To accelerate the time to market of an EV charger, Microchip Technology announced three flexible and scalable EV Charger Reference Designs, including a Single-Phase AC Residential, a Three-Phase AC Commercial with OCPP and SoC and a Three-Phase AC Commercial with OCPP and Display.

The company offers most of the active components for the EV charger reference designs, including the MCU, analog front-end, memory, connectivity, and power conversion. This greatly streamlines the integration process, allowing manufacturers to speed up the time to market for new charging solutions.

"Microchip's E-Mobility team is focused on developing reference designs that our customers can directly use and benefit from," said Joe Thomsen, corporate vice president of Microchip's digital signal controller business unit. "We want to help our customers shorten design cycles by offering complete solutions such as these new EV charger references designs while also supplying the hardware, software and technical support."

The company's EV charger reference designs allow manufacturers to scale depending on the target market with various solutions to fulfil the needs of residential and commercial charging applications. These reference designs provide complete hardware design files and source code with software stacks tested and compliant with communication protocols, including OCPP. OCPP offers manufacturers a standard communication protocol between the charge point or charging station and a central system. This protocol is designed to allow interoperability of the charging applications regardless of the network or vendor.