Power Manager II Hercules Development Kit

The Power Manager II Hercules Development Kits are versatile, ready to use hardware platforms for evaluating and designing with Power Manager II devices. A Standard and Advanced Edition of each kit is available. Using the preloaded Board Digital Management design provided with the development kit, you can test within minutes power management functions such as power supply hot swap control, redundant supply selection and payload power management. You can then build your own designs using the free downloadable reference design source code, implementing these features in less than an hour.

Provisions are included to emulate power supply monitoring, temperature monitoring, supply fault logging, and reset generation. The kits also demonstrate enhanced power management features such as closed loop margining. The Advanced Edition of the Hercules Development Kit provides an accessory backplane board with CompactPCI connections for evaluation with live hot-swap scenarios.

The core of the Hercules evaluation board is the combination of a Power Manager II ispPAC-POWR1220AT8 and a MachXO LCMXO2280 PLD. The MachXO can be configured to provide digital management and interface functions such as interface to a CompactPCI backplane, LCD display, PC Host, SPI Flash, memory interface, VID decode and fault logging. Power for the board comes from a 12VDC wall plug supply. Power for Advanced Edition of the Hercules evaluation board can be sourced by a CompactPCI 12V backplane power supply.

Development Kit Contents

• The Standard Edition Hercules Development Kit features the following:
  • Preloaded Board Digital Management demo
  • Hercules Standard Edition evaluation board
  • Power Manager II ispPAC-POWR1220AT8 and MachXO LCMXO2280 PLD

• The Advanced Edition Hercules Development Kit features the following:
  • Preloaded Board Digital Management demo
  • Hercules Advanced Edition evaluation board with CompactPCI headers
  • Power Manager II ispPAC-POWR1220AT8 and MachXO LCMXO2280 PLD
  • Backplane accessory evaluation board and power supply for live hot-swap demonstrations

• AC adapter (international plugs)
• USB Connector Cable
• RoHS-compliant packaging and process

Ordering Information

• PAC-POWR1220AT8-HS-EVN (Standard)
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• PAC-POWR1220AT8-HA-EVN (Advanced)
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Power Manager II Hercules Development Kit Features 

Board Power Management Demos	Standard Edition	Advanced Edition
+12V Power Hot Swap
+12V Power OR'ing
Power Supply Sequencing
Power Supply Margining
Power Supply Trimming
5.5V and 3.3V Power Hot Swap
Plugs into cPCI and cPCIe Slots
Board Digital Management Demos
Fault Logging
Digital Reset Distribution
I2C Interface
SPI Interface
Voltage Scaling
cPCI/cPCIe Interface
Development Kit Contents
Standard Evaluation Board
Advanced Evaluation Board
USB Connector Cable
User's Guide
12V Wall Plug Power Supply
cPCI/cPCIe Backplane Board
PC Power Supply for Backplane Board