Datasheet

Piccolo
™
Motor Control
Developer’s Kits
Power factor correction and sensorless field
oriented motor control with one low cost MCU
The new Piccolo F28035 based Motor
Control Developer’s kits from Texas
Instruments leverage the real-time control
capabilities of Piccolo, along with
TI’s industry leading analog, to bring field
oriented motor control and power factor
correction into cost sensitive applications.
Both of these new kits include everything
needed to start development: a motor
control baseboard, with onboard, isolated
USB JTAG emulation, F28035 control-
CARD, permanent magnet motors, and a
desktop DC power supply.
The software included with these new
kits controls up to two permanent magnet
motors using sensorless field oriented
•Powerfactorcorrectionplusdualor
single axis motor control
•Sensorlesseldorientedcontrol
•SinglePiccolocontrolsPFCandmotor
control stages
•PiccoloF28035controlCARDbasedEVM
•IsolatedonboardUSBJTAGemulation
•HighperformanceTIanalogusedinPFC
and motor driver stages
Key features
control techniques, and is tuned for the
motors included with the kit. The software
also digitally controls the two phase
interleaved power factor correction
(PFC) stage.
The PFC plus dual axis baseboard
is based around TI’s high performance
analog technology. Central to the kit are
theDRV8402motordrivers,asinglechip
dual full bridge motor driver. These 36-pin
chips can output 250 watts each at up to
96% efficiency. The baseboard limits each
driverto40Weach,duetoboardsize
considerations.
These two new motor kits are part of
the new C2000
™
controlCARD platform.
Based on a simple daughter card and a
common pin-out, the controlCARD allows
multiple C2000 MCUs to be evaluated
on the same baseboard. TI offers pin
compatible controlCARDs for both the
Piccolo and Delfino
™
MCU families.
The Piccolo F28035 controlCARD
included with both motor control kits
features the latest Piccolo microcontroller.
Runningatupto60MHz,theF28035
features dual internal oscillators, up to
128KBofash,a12-bit4.6MSPSADC,
highresolutionePWMoutputs,andthe
new control law accelerator (CLA). The
CLA is an independent, floating-point
coprocessor designed to run control
algorithms without any CPU involvement.
For more information please visit
www.ti.com/C2000tools.