The THINERGY™ Applications Development Platform (ADP) is a unique evaluation and application development tool used to demonstrate the many performance advantages of THINERGY micro-energy cell (MEC™) products. The ADP greatly simplifies the typical lab setup for micro-battery testing and is very useful for evaluating battery performance, effectiveness of charging circuits using ambient energy harvesting, and overall system development of the user’s end application.

THINERGY ADP DEMO VIDEO The newly released Application Development Platform (ADP) tool was featured on Engineering TV

The Applications Development Platform provides a simple method to charge, discharge, and monitor THINERGY MECs during device evaluation and system integration. The built-in demo mode provides pre-defined loads (constant resistance, constant current, pulsed current and standard LED load) to discharge the battery while displaying the time, approximate state of charge (fuel gauge), discharge voltage/current, while protecting the cell from over voltage or under voltage conditions.

In addition, the ADP serves as a development platform to allow users to develop their own applications on a separate breadboard that can be connected to the “Sentry” inputs, powering the application from the MEC while being monitored by the ADP. THINERGY MECs are soldered to a credit card sized PCB for easy handling and insertion into the tool. The tool continuously displays the battery voltage and state of charge (fuel gauge) during evaluation or while powering the user’s application. Built-in safety features protect the battery if the user load becomes shorted or the cell becomes over discharged. The ADP also allows the user to connect various energy harvesting circuits to charge the battery, even while the MEC is powering a user’s application, enabling the user to easily prototype and emulate their entire microelectronic system. Every mode has a built-in timer to monitor how long it takes to charge or discharge the cell under various loads and charging scenarios.

The IPS Application Development Platform includes:

• The THINERGY ADP Tool

• Three (3) MEC cards (each containing one THINERGY MEC101 device soldered to the card) that plug into the ADP for evaluation

• A power cable

• A programming cable, and

• A CD ROM containing the User’s Guide

A module for data logging capability is also available as a software purchase option.  ADP kits are now available for purchase by IPS qualified customers. Contact IPS to find out more about our micro-energy cell products.