Datasheet

TMC429 DATASHEET (v. 1.07 / 2012-AUG-01) 1
Copyright © 2010-2012, TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG
TMC429 DATA SHEET
Intelligent Triple Stepper Motor Controller with
Serial Peripheral Interfaces and Step Direction
Full Compatible Successor of the TMC428
TRINAMIC
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Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG
Waterloohain 5
D 22769 Hamburg
GERMANY
www.trinamic.com
1 Features
The TMC429 is a miniaturized high performance stepper motor controller. It controls up to three 2-
phase stepper motors. All motors can operate independently. The TMC429 allows up to 6 bit micro
step resolution  corresponding to 64 micro steps per full step individually selectable for
each motor. Once initialized, it performs all real time critical tasks autonomously based on target
positions and velocities, which can be altered on-the-fly. So, an inexpensive microcontroller together
with the TMC429 forms a complete motion control system. The microcontroller is free to do application
specific interfacing and high level control functions. Both, the communication with the microcontroller
and with one to three daisy chained stepper motor drivers take place via two separate 4 wire serial
peripheral interfaces. The TMC429 directly connects to SPI
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smart power stepper motor drivers or
via step-direction interface.
Controls up to three stepper motors
Serial 4-wire interface for µC with easy-to-use protocol
Configurable interface for SPI
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motor drivers
Step / Direction (S/D) interface
Different types of SPI
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stepper motor driver chips may be mixed within a single daisy chain
Communication on demand minimizes traffic to the SPI
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stepper motor driver chain
Programmable SPI
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data rates up to 1 Mbit/s
Wide range for clock frequency can use CPU clock up to 32 MHz
Internal 24 bit wide position counters
Full step frequencies up to 20 kHz
Read-out facility for actual motion parameters (position, velocity, acceleration) and driver status
Individual micro step resolution of {64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1} micro steps via built-in sequencer
Programmable 6 bit micro step table with up to 64 entries for a quarter sine-wave period
Built-in ramp generators for autonomous positioning and speed control
On-the-fly change of target motion parameters (like position, velocity, acceleration)
Automatic acceleration dependent current control (power boost)
Low power operation: Only 1.25mA @ 4 MHz (typ.)
Power down mode with transparent wake-up for normal operation
3.3V or 5V operation with CMOS / TTL compatible IOs (all inputs Schmitt-Trigger)
Available in ultra small 16 pin SSOP package, small 24 pin SOP package, and 32 pin QFN 5x5mm
Table of contents, table of figures, table of tables are located at the end of this datasheet.
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SPI is Trademark of Motorola, Inc.

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