Cart Description
Overview
The Texas Instruments' Medium Voltage Digital Motor Control Kit for Stellaris® LM4F Microcontrollers (DK-LM4F-DRV8312) is a development platform for spinning three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motors. The low-cost Stellaris LM4F211 microcontroller (MCU) on the MDL-LM4F211CNCD controlCARD module comes with the necessary firmware and graphical user interface (GUI) to run the Texas Instruments' (TI) InstaSPIN™ BLDC motor control solution or sensorless sliding mode observer (SMO) FOC motor control solution out-of-the-box.
The operation of both system solutions can be controlled and viewable across a USB interface using the included GUI.
Follow the steps in the kit's README First document to quickly get up and running.
Features
The DK-LM4F-DRV8312 motor control kit contains a cost-effective, high-performance Stellaris LM4F211 MCU-based controlCARD module compatible with other TI motor control platforms.
In addition to instantly spinning your motor, the kit also demonstrates the InstaSPIN BLDC motor control solution's operational advantages with simplified tuning, immediate acceleration adaptation, reliable low-speed operation, and more.
The included GUI software solution enables users to control and monitor the total solution through an easy-to-use PC application that can be extended for customer applications.
- Hardware-compatible with the following TI DRV baseboards:
- DRV8312EVM RevD
- DRV8301-HC-EVM RevC+
- DRV8302-HC-EVM RevC+
Contents
The DK-LM4F-DRV8312 is a bundle of the following components:
- MDL-LM4F211CNCD controlCARD module
- Stellaris 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M4F LM4F211 microcontroller
- 80-MHz floating point processor core
- 256 K bytes Flash
- 32 K bytes SRAM
- DRV8312 baseboard (TI-integrated 3P motor driver board with InstaSPIN™-BLDC and Sensorless Sliding Mode Observer FOC):
- Supports sub-50 V and 6.5-A peak brushless motors
- 50-V, 3.5-A inverter drive board
- 24-V NEMA17 BLDC/PMSM motor
- 24-V, 2.5-A power supply
- USB Micro-B to USB-A plug cable (for debug and serial communication)
- Kit DVD:
- Complete documentation
- Texas Instruments’ Code Composer Studio™ Integrated Development Environment (IDE)v5
- InstaSPIN™-BLDC and sensorless FOC software projects
- Schematics
