MSP430 Energy Meter IC solutions for Electricity Meters

Smart Grid Series

Q3, 2012

Enery Metering Applications

Utility meters: vertical
Residential electrical meters Commercial and industrial electrical meters Electrical Vehicles charging stations

Sub-metering: broad
Smart Plug Power Distribution Units (PDU) Server power Smart Appliances Trend in the smart home/smart building

MSP430 energy meter IC portfolio facts and update

15 years experience - Large portfolio today from 1-phase to 3-phase MSP430AFE very popular in metering and sub-metering applications Recently introduced device MSP430F6736 getting a lot of traction Two new series are in early samples stage

Energy Meter IC market trend

Utility meters:
500 Millions residential electricity meters will be deployed with the next 6-10 years Meters are becoming smart with communications functions changing electrical meters requirements Need for robustness, anti-tamper, low-power consumption, integration 3 big classes
Need for system cost optimization just measure energy: Analog Front End (AFE) Need for low-end Metrology SoC (ADC metrology + MCU core+ LCD + RTC) ~ from 12kB to 64kB Flash range Need for higher integration Metrology SoC (memory up to 256kB/512kB, encryption, 1-phase, 3phase)

Sub-Metering:
Consumers want to take control of their energy consumption Concept of smart-home and smart building is rising It starts by measurement energy in a simple way: AFE approach Grid connected appliances
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Smart Home: Grid Connected Appliance

New ENERGY STAR specification effective January 2013 Provide alerts and future demand response capabilities for appliances for the consumer to save energy MSP430AFE253: sensing + RF com interface Strong interest from appliance manufacturers WW
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Sub-Meter Block Diagram

Metrology AFE = Sigma Delta + MCU + RTC small memory foot print, lower cost than SoC

Topoloy for a mid-end electrical meter

Metrology SoC = Sigma Delta + MCU + RTC + LCD Memory up to 128kB flash with growing requirements with 256kB+ Encryption coming-up (AES128)

What You can get from TI?

Single Stop System Solutions (all types of meters, interfaces/AMR/PLC/Wireless, LPRF, Analog) Broad line of chips to cover every smart grid requirement Always Ultra Low Power no need in expensive power supplies
Low Power Cap Drop based power supply with MSP430 (cost effective)

TI delivers all the protocols you may need: DLMS/COSEM, MBus, Wireless M-Bus, PLC G3/PRIME, ZigBee (all IPs), etc Robust roadmap with F67xx platform helping customers to manage multiple designs using one platform Technical SW/HW Support, Ref. Designs, Metrology SW

MSP430AFE
Performance
16-bit RISC architecture, 125ns instruction cycle time Ultra-Low-Power, Integrated Analog, and Easy-to-Use

Applications include:
Single phase e-meter (with anti-tampering) Power Monitoring (Servers, Appliances, Branch Meters) High-precision measurements Digital Sensors MSP430AFE2xx Microcontroller

Power & Clocking

Features
Low supply voltage range 1.8-3.6V Ultra-low power in active and sleep modes and ultrafast wake-up from standby mode in <1 s 3 independent converters USART communication 24-pin TSSOP (PW)

16-bit RISC Orthogonal MCU

8 MHz

Memory 16/8/4 kB Flash 512/512/256 B RAM

Debug Real-time JTAG / SBW Embedded Emulation

Clock System: High Freq Crystal Osc Digitally Controlled Osc (DCO) VLO Power on Reset Brownout Reset Supply Volt Supervisor

Benefits
Cost optimized for analog front end in metering, power monitors, high-precision measurements <0.1% accuracy for precise measurements with a 2400:1 dynamic range with convertors Anti-tampering capabilities with an additional convertor Lower system power due to worlds lowest power MCU Small Footprint of 24-pin (35-50sqmm) enables solutions for in-system power monitoring and industrial sensoring More robust performance and software development with simultaneous sampling Peripherals 16-bit Multiplier 15/16 bit Watch Dog Timer Serial Interface USART (UART, SPI) @8MHz Connectivity 11 I/Os Timers

16-bit Timer A with 3 capcomp Regs Converters 3x Sigma-Delta

AFE 430 Results

Provide raw data of voltage and current samples Energy
Active Reactive Apparent

Power
Active Reactive Apparent

Power factor ( cos( ) ) Voltage and Current

Peak RMS

Frequency Temperature Tamper detection Energy pulse output for calibration for active and reactive energies
Target accuracy 0.1% for active and reactive energies

Example of Competitive Advantages of MSP430AFE2xx

Objective Simple & Cheaper implementation Benefit Needs only one IC instead of two to implement designs Feature Single MCU solution

Accuracy

More accurate ADC architecture enables meeting IEC specifications easily

24 bit - ADCs

Ease of use

Full code and metering algorithm provided to help those who are unfamiliar TI's Energy Library with metering Calibration flexibility for sub metering applications

Time to market

Saves time & money

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N VCC VCC RST VSS GND Analog to Digital I1I In I1+ V1+ XT2 2 OUT UT TXD0 RXD0 UR UART TO PC I/O I/O V1-/ V1Vref(O) Vref(I) VREF SIMO S SOMI SPI VCC VCC RST VSS GND SOMI S SIMO I/O PUL LSE2 PUL LSE1 I/O SPI SPI V In XT2IN X HF crystal ( Up to16MHz) PUL LSE1 PUL LSE2

MSP430AFE for Three-phase E-meter

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From utility AB C

ISOLATION BLOCK
AFE MSP430

LOAD

AFE MSP430

Analog to Digital I1I In V In I1+ V1+

XT2IN X

HF crystal ( Up to16MHz) XT2 2 OUT

V1-/ V1Vref(O) Vref(I) VREF

UT TXD0 UR RXD0

LOAD

UART TO PC

APPLICATION PROCESSOR

VCC VCC RST VSS GND SOMI S SIMO PUL LSE2 I/O

AFE MSP430
Analog to Digital I1I In V In I1+ V1+ V1-/ V1Vref(O) Vref(I) VREF
LOAD

PUL LSE1

I/O

XT2IN X

HF crystal ( Up to16MHz) XT2 2 OUT

UT TXD0 UR RXD0

UART TO PC

VCC

GND

VCC DC/DC GND

AFE For Single-phase E-meter with Tamper detection

From utility N L

VCC RST VSS

MSP430 AFE
PULSE2 PULSE1

Analog to Digital I1+ C T I In I1I2I2+ V1+ V In V1-/ V1Vref(O) Vref(I) VREF

XT2IN

HF crystal (Up to 16MHz)

XT2OUT SPI UTXD0 URXD0 Application interface UART or SPI

LOAD

MSP430 AFE EVM

EVM creation completed Early samples available today SW testing in progress Based on MSP430 AFE+MSP430 Apps processor Tool available by mid February 2011

MSP430 Energy Watchdog

Fully functional smart plug tool allows quick and efficient development Measurements performed / displayed
Incoming voltage, current, frequency Active, reactive, apparent power Power factor Energy consumption

MSP430AFE253IPWR Interface to optional comm modules

ZigBee Sub-1 GHz 802.15.4 Wireless M-Bus

Will be available in the future

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EVM definition

MSP430F6736 24 new devices starting at $2.00

24 New Devices
Industrys largest segmented LCD controller Up to 2MHz SD24 modulation frequency 3x auxiliary power supplies MSP430F6736 Microcontroller
Memory

Larger Flash
Power & Clocking

Applications
Single phase e-metering High-precision measurements Anti-tampering

16-bit RISC Orthogonal MCU 25 MHz

Up to 128 kB Flash Up to 8 kB RAM

Debug Real-time JTAG / SBW Embedded Emulation Boot Strap Loader

Clock System: Digl Freq Lock Loop Intrnl Trimd LF Osc External 32KHz Clk High Freq Crystal Osc Power on Reset Brownout Reset Supply Volt Supervisor 2 Aux. Power Supplies LDO

Performance
16-bit RISC architecture, 40ns instruction cycle time Ultra-low-power, integrated intelligent peripherals and easy-to-use Peripherals 320 segment LCD 3 ch internal DMA 32-bit Multiplier 15/16 bit Watch Dog Timer Timers

Lowest Power in the Industry

Low Supply Voltage Range 1.8 V to 3.6 V Ultra-low Power Consumption (@ 3V) Active Mode: 140 A/MHz Standby Mode: 2.5 A Off Mode: 1.6 A Shutdown Mode: 0.78 A

4x 16-bit Timer A with 2 cap-comp Regs RTC w/ Backup Battery 16-bit Basic Timer Converters 3x 24-bit Sigma-Delta 10-bit ADC

Ultrafast wake-up from standby mode in < 3 s Package

100-pin QFP (PZ) 80-pin QFP (PN)

Serial Interface Multiple 3x eUSCI_A (UART, IrDA, SPI) Communications 1x eUSCI_B (SPI, I2C)

Interfaces

Connectivity 74 I/Os; 54 I/Os

Starting at $2.00 @ 1Ku

Why MSP430 for Electricity meters?

Objectives
System Cost Optimization

Benefits
Remove need for level conversion Simplify and reduce power design High level of integration Optimized implementation

Features
Sigma Delta with Differential Inputs Ultra-low power (0.1uA power-down, 0.8uA standby mode, <220uA/MIPS) RTC and LCD driver integrated Optimized 1-phase AFE Sigma Delta with simultaneous sampling for current and voltage Hardware MPY Energy library and plug and play EVM Numerous SD combination up to 7 for three-phase systems Various Serial Communication ports interfaces 1-phase and 3-phase platform with pin to pin compatibility options + roadmap

Time to market/Accuracy

No SW compensation for inherent delay between voltage and current Better numerical result Ease of use and quicker time to market

Anti-tamper implementation Easy interfacing

Additional measurement Provides Easy options to interface with LR RF or wired coms Software and Hardware reuse

Flexible long term platform

Get started: simplify development with tools and software

Development Tools Energy Software Library
Supports all metrology and SoC devices in the new MSP430 architecture Allows easy startup for customers developing a utility meter product Free online download of the SW suite

MSP-TS430PZ100B - $75 Standalone target board used to program and debug EVM430-F47197 3-phase meter EVM MSP430F6736 Single-phase Meter EVM AFE tool under qualification Watchdog

MCU Selection Tool

www.ti.com/ 430metering

TIs metroSUITE metrology software

Compliant with EN 50470-1/3, IEC62053-21/22/23, ANSIC12.1/10/20
MID compliant (class-2, class-1, class-0.5) Including metrology lib, power analytics lib and energy disaggregation lib Available: Q2/2013
OSAL Library Energy Watchdog Application Examples Smart Meter 2.0 Test Suite 1 Phase Temper/Failure detection Test Suite 3 Phase RF Comm

Multirate Usage Record

metroSuite OSAL APIs

metroSUITE High-Level APIs

Task Scheduler

Metrology Library Energy Calculation Metrology Math Meter Mode (Normal/Limp) Energy Pulse

Metrology Utility Lib Host Communication Conversion/Read/Write (LCD/Flash/EEPROM)

Message Queue Task Buffer Mngr

HAL Layer APIs ADC SD24B ADC SAR10 USCI SPI/UART

LCD

GPIO

WDT

Timer

RTC

Silicon Libraries: Device Driver Lib, Utility Lib

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