Kit simplifies design of motion control systems
Toshiba Electronics
BLDC evaluation kit
Toshiba Electronics Europe has introduced an evaluation kit for the development of embedded systems designed to control three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motors.
Based on the company's TMPM370 range of ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers, the kit is designed to speed up and simplify the design of motion control systems for pumps, fans, robotics and other industrial and home-appliance applications.
Toshiba's new BMSKTOPASM370 field-oriented motor control kit - which has been developed in conjunction with hardware and software tool specialist Hitex Development Tools - comprises an evaluation board, an in-circuit emulator (ICE), an 18V three-phase BLDC motor, a 24V power supply and a package of software tools and documentation.
The kit's evaluation board is built around the TMPM370FYFG low-power 32bit microcontroller, which is based on an ARM Cortex-M3 core running at 80MHz.
This device combines Toshiba's proprietary PMD3+ programmable motor driver technology, a vector engine, 12bit analogue-to-digital-converter (ADC) functionality and a set of peripherals and interfaces to provide the accurate, hardware-based, field-oriented vector control of sensored and sensorless three-phase motors.
All of the circuitry and interfaces needed for low-voltage motor control are incorporated into the evaluation board, along with safety control functions and a small LCD for standalone evaluation.
The software package supplied with the kit includes source code, a board support package and a PC-based graphical interface for the configuration and control of low- and high-voltage motor control parameters.
A Segger J-Link ARM Lite USB-driven JTAG emulator for Cortex-M3 cores further simplifies application development.
Documentation includes application notes, reference designs and bill-of-materials information.
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