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>Attaching an MCU to an inverter isn’t exactly new technology No, its nothing special. Texas Instruments, Analog Devices and many others sell such chips for de
by morphle 3y ago
>Attaching an MCU to an inverter isn’t exactly new technology
No, its nothing special. Texas Instruments, Analog Devices and many others sell such chips for decades for several dollars each. What makes our chips (Microcontroller SoC) special is the $0,01 price and the high speed network between them so you can aggregate/balance/coordinate the inverter output voltage and the fully programmable inverter with all components in the chip except the inductor (a small coil).
The bidirectional buck/boost is to charge/discharge battery cells individually, for solar cells we just need a unidirectional boost inverter.
>8-core 64-bit MCU
Sorry for the confusion, I could not edit my mistake.
It is an single core 64 bit processor (ARM, X-86, Risc-V, bytecode and microcode) but reconfigurable to 8x8bit (for I/O processors like the RP2040 Raspberry pico), 4x16bit or 2x32bit or combinations like 4x8bit plus 1x32bit).
The reconfiguration of the 8 bit slices is done with our special kind of FPGA fabric that we call Morphle Logic [1]
>Do you have any technology that couldn’t be replicated?
Only special physics knowledge. Our software. But nothing that they could not reverse engineer in a few weeks.
>then any of the big players could have done it years ago
Yes they could and they have. Their designs are pretty bad though, especially the microcontroller parts. And they just charge way too much for them. The Chinese companies that make the panels have not yet cloned their chips.
>a negligible part of the overall cost. The price of the packaging, magnetics, testing
Wrong. Our package is the cheapest with just two or 6 solder balls on the bare die, no package no pins. Testing, magnetics are no factor.
>and integration into the panel will eclipse that
No, the chips are in the place where the solar cell wires attach to each other already, the silicon sliver of material makes the standard wireing slightly cheaper.
>claims of producing “30% more” energy also don’t hold up
This is rounded estimated number from several science papers about maximum MPPT yield improvements and separately from wiring cells in parallel. Its certainly not my claim, to calculate this number scientifically you have to do this for every individual cell and panel on every different geographic location.
[1] https://github.com/fiberhood/MorphleLogic/blob/main/README_MORPHLE_LOGIC.md https://github.com/fiberhood/MorphleLogic/blob/main/README_M...