Hi guys,
I'm a power engineer, and a beginner in the embedded world.
Now I want to design a microcontroller based mppt charger, and a little confused of the mcu's variety on the market.
In order to be focused on the relevant needs, I'd like to ask few questions:
1) In order to calculate some mathematical calculations such as: average, RMS, square root, integration etc, what is more effective, to use a microcontroller or DSP? This is for off-grid application.
2) Is there some guidelines how to pick the core processor size (8/32 bit), and the program/RAM memory size?
Just to mention, for now it's only a new idea for a new prototype, so issues like cost and size are not so important.
Thanks in advance.
I'm a power engineer, and a beginner in the embedded world.
Now I want to design a microcontroller based mppt charger, and a little confused of the mcu's variety on the market.
In order to be focused on the relevant needs, I'd like to ask few questions:
1) In order to calculate some mathematical calculations such as: average, RMS, square root, integration etc, what is more effective, to use a microcontroller or DSP? This is for off-grid application.
2) Is there some guidelines how to pick the core processor size (8/32 bit), and the program/RAM memory size?
Just to mention, for now it's only a new idea for a new prototype, so issues like cost and size are not so important.
Thanks in advance.