Power Management ICs

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

   

    
•  For our project we are modifying the reference design of MPPT solar charger (http://www.cypress.com/?rID=39126)
    
• Our plan is to include a UART module to serially transmitt the parameters monitored to an external data logger.
    
• The available resources in the current design is not enough to include a UART module, so we have to modify it     
    
• Two digital block are needed for UART module   in the current design one digital block is free                                                
   

   

Following are the design modification we have in mind.....

   

1.In the design there are four LEDs used for displaying the current status of the battery. we thought of disabling the LEDs which would free two more digital blocks (which are used as PWM for driving those LEDs)  and take out the LEDS from the board and connect some wires in its and use those pins for serial outputs.(which we feel a bit awkward)

   

2. There are two pins  ISSP_SCK_1_1(connected to P1_0)  and ISSP_SDATA_1_0(P1_1), we thought of using these pins for the RXD and TXD. Can this pin be multiplexed as ISSP while programming and as RXD and TXD while execution??  is that possible?.. This seems quite decent since we can use the available MOLEX pin out in  the board which is used for programming

   

3.Another option would be to use the pins used for OCD(on chip debugging) for pins are used. Is it possible to  route the signals from the UART block to these pins?? 

   

We are uncertain about the feasibilty of the modifications 2 & 3. So we are kindly expecting your suggestions.

   

Any sort of help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

   

Sundar