Microsemi and TRINAMIC announced the availability of a new motor control kit allowing designers to lower product-development costs and bring products to market quickly. The solution includes Microsemi’s SmartFusion evaluation kit and TRINAMIC’s motor control daughter board kit. Microsemi’s SmartFusion customizable system-on-chip combines three features crucial for successful implementation of complex motor control algorithms: an embedded microcontroller, programmable analog and FPGA. This integration creates an ideal platform to partition software and hardware architectural requirements. SmartFusion’s embedded ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller is utilized for system layer task management, algorithm execution and system connectivity. The onboard programmable analog provides full sense and control for voltage, current and temperature monitoring. The flash FPGA logic enables hardware acceleration and math co-processing. In addition, computational/cycle intensive algorithmic routines can be implemented within the FPGA to execute extremely fast and efficient subroutines.
Microsemi’s SmartFusion Evaluation Kit features A2F200M3F-FGG484ES device and200,000 system FPGA gates, 256 KB flash memory, 64 KB SRAM, and additional distributed SRAM in the FPGA fabric and external memory controller . Peripherals include Ethernet, DMAs, I2Cs, UARTs, timers, ADCs, DACs and additional analog resources. The SmartFusion Evaluation Kit also features 10/100 Ethernet interface with on-chip MAC and external PHY, RVI header for application programming and debug from either Keil or IAR systems and mixed-signal header for daughter card support.
TRINAMIC Motor Control Daughter Card comes with parallel operation of BLDC & stepper motor (requires two power supplies), Hall sensor interface, ABN encoder interface. All signals of the mixed-signal header can be accessed via a pin header for test and measurement. Voltage supplies for stepper and BLDC block are independent. Other kit components include 1 stepper motor with 1.8° step angle, 1 brushless DC motor with Hall sensors, 1 portable desktop power supply (24V/1A) with international plugs and example designs for download.
