Motor drives and motor control

Monolithic Power Systems

The EVKT-MOTOR-00A from Monolithic Power Systems provides a communication link between a USB interface and a serial peripheral or I2C interface. It enables developers to connect a PC to motor drivers, such as the MP6602 stepper motor driver, that use a serial interface, as well as to an MPS motor driver programming tool.

The EVKT-MOTOR-00A kit includes one USB communication device interface, one USB cable, and one 10-pin ribbon cable.

Microchip

The ATA6847 evaluation board provides a fully assembled hardware platform for evaluating and demonstrating the motor drive capabilities of the ATA6847 gate driver system basis chip (SBC) from Microchip.

Nexperia

The Nexperia NEVB-MCTRL-100 BLDC motor driver kit provides a full motor drive solution for 12 V to 48 V, three-phase brushless dc (BLDC) motors. 

The kit features PCBs designed for the Nexperia NextPower MOSFET family housed in an LFPAK56 package, and the modular design allows for different motor controllers, gate drivers, MOSFETs and motors to be used. In addition, each board provides convenient test points for power, motor drive, and sensing signals to aid with development and testing with the Nexperia LFPAK56 MOSFET family. 

The motor controller board is compatible with the Leonardo R3 and Nucleo development board form factors.

STMicroelectronics

The EVSPIN32G02Q1S1 board from STMicroelectronics is a complete three-phase inverter design based on the STSPIN32G0251 controller, which integrates a three‑phase 250 V gate driver and an Arm® Cortex®-M0+-based STM32 microcontroller.

STMicroelectronics

The EVSPIN32G06Q1S3 board from STMicroelectronics is a complete three-phase inverter based on the STSPIN32G0601 controller, which integrates a three‑phase 600 V gate driver and an Arm® Cortex®-M0+-based STM32 microcontroller.

STMicroelectronics

The B-G431B-ESC1 Discovery kit is based on the STM32G431CB microcontroller, the L6387 driver and STL180N6F7 power MOSFETs, all from STMicroelectronics. The kit is composed of a main power board and a daughterboard with an embedded ST-LINK/V2-1 debugger. 

The kit implements an electronic speed controller (ESC) which drives a single three-phase brushless motor performing a sensorless field-oriented control (FOC) algorithm and six-step control with speed regulation. It also provides an active braking function algorithm. The sensorless FOC algorithm ensures long operating time and optimal dynamic performance.

The Discovery kit accepts command signals from an external unit for driving and monitoring, such as a flight control board for a drone. The kit is equipped with several communication bus interfaces: UART, CAN, and PWM channels. A potentiometer and a user button are available for user control. 

The daughterboard includes a 5 V battery eliminator circuit. The main board includes over-current, over-voltage and thermal protection. 

The form factor makes this kit suitable for small and very light radio-controlled vehicles such as first-person view racing drones, while the motor-current capability fits the power requirement of larger vehicles such as prosumer drones.

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