Xilinx SP605 User Manual
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SP605 Hardware User Guide
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Detailed Description
Voltage and current monitoring and control are available for selected power rails through
Texas Instruments' Fusion Digital Power™ graphical user interface (GUI). Both onboard TI
power controllers are wired to the same PMBus. The PMBus connector, J1, is provided for
use with the TI USB Interface Adapter PMBus pod (TI part number EVM USB-TO-GPIO;
refer to
5
board is shipped with a TI flyer containing information that allows the user to purchase
this EVM at a discount.
TI provides the Fusion Digital Power Designer software package
(
which includes several tools capable of communicating with the UCD92xx series of
controllers from a Windows-based host computer via the PMBus pod. The SP605 onboard
connector J1 is wired for the TI EVM interface and provides access to the PMBUS and
UCD9240s for monitoring purposes. This is the simplest and most convenient way to
monitor the power rails. See
.
For details concerning the use of the Fusion software tool, refer to the documentation
offered in the Fusion Digital Power Designer GUI help system (select Help
→
Documentation and Help Center
).
References
For more detailed information about this technology and the various power management
controllers and regulator modules offered by Texas Instruments, visit
.