RS Components now offers motor control kit solutions from Cypress Semiconductor that enable simple design, configuration and evaluation of advanced DC motor control solutions. Covering a range of motors including brushless direct current (BLDC) permanent magnetic synchronous (PMSM) and stepper motors, the new CY8CKIT-037 PSoC 4 motor control evaluation kit has been designed for use with the Cypress CY8CKIT-042 PSoC 4 MCU Pioneer kit. The PSoC is a programmable microcontroller based on the ARM Cortex-M processor and integrates configurable analog and digital peripheral functions on a single chip.
Making it easy to prototype four different BLDC motor control techniques, the PSoC 4 motor control evaluation kit supports several operating modes including single-shunt and sensorless field oriented control (FOC), sensored or sensorless BLDC motor control, as well as stepper motor control. It comprises a motor control board; 24 V/2 A power supply adaptor; screwdriver; BLDC motor with sinusoidal back-EMF; type A to mini-B USB cable; configuration jumpers; 2,5 A fuse; and a quick start guide. The PSoC 4 Pioneer kit comprises the Pioneer PSoC board; USB standard type A to mini-B cable jumper wires; and a quick-start guide.
Enabling development costs to be reduced, the kit offers a highly integrated BLDC motor control solution. For example the PSoC 4 MCU integrates the op amps and ADC to interface with the motor and implements the control loop in hardware, using the programmable fabric of the universal digital blocks (UDBs), thus enabling deterministic control of the motor. It also provides several code examples to demonstrate the control of BLDC, PMSM and stepper motors.
The kit also enables the simplified design of advanced motor control systems, as it provides the advanced FOC algorithm, reliable 5 V design without external components, and hardware-based commutation using high reliability programmable hardware to offload CPU computation. In addition, use of the PSoC Creator integrated development environment (IDE) allows concurrent hardware and software design.
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