TI and future Jaguars

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I know this is past the deadline and talk is cheap and I'm really just throwing this out for discussion or future consideration. The capabilities in this area seem to advance and there might easily be better parts or modules with higher integration out there, but this is a concrete data point, if nothing else. There are FETs with less than 0.001 ohm resistance, 60A * 60A * 0.001 ohm is only 3.6W! The real trick seems to be finding the right integrated pre-driver with all the features that would be ideal for this application.

Sorry I've been so distant. Something larger than this for FIRST was tossed onto my plate and I'm moving very quickly with it. So rather than let this distract for the next week or so I need to continue to have my focus elsewhere. As soon as I finish with the documentation portion of that other project I'll release all the resources at the same time so we can move forward. Less chaos that way as I don't have any volunteers to help with the web development work.

In any event, the deadline to absorb the manufacturing and support for the Jaguar is irrelevant to this project. The Jaguar RFC merely serves as a footprint to draw information from. If someone has decided to move forward with answering that RFC it's also irrelevant. I am quite intent on making these units a reality for FIRST and even if my unexpected additional work load delays them too long to make this happen this year...I'm quite fine with delivering on it next year. I've sort of traded for actual production work to paper work at the moment.

The nice part of putting the H-bridge drivers on the high power module is we can produce different high power modules to deal with the advance of power transistor technology, while producing other control modules that don't by necessity have to go obsolete every time we change the transistors or H-bridge drivers.