Industrial

Building automation solutions enhance security to reducing energy and maintenance costs, and also offers a wide range of innovative technologies to monitor and control intelligent buildings and/or smart homes.

Developed using DRV8402 motor control kit and Hercules RM46 control card. MCU drives the PWM outputs to drive the DRV8402 motor drivers. TPS65381 power management IC is used as power supply and external monitor for the MCU. The motor control functions are demonstrated on the scaled down version of the elevator with doors and elevator car. Hercules MCU runs the motor control functions provided by the Motorware library. Safety features of Hercules and TPS are shown using fault simulation and SafeTI diagnostic library. If a fault is detected in the MCU during elevator operation, the system comes to a safe stop. The solution highlights the importance of attaining a safe state in a safety critical application as this.

Flexible "on the fly" selection of protocols

• Seamless connection to industry standard PLCs
• Scalable certified solutions

TI has a number of analog and embedded processing solutions, such as an industrial communication demo that shows the implementation of five industrial Ethernet protocols widely used in industrial automation: Profinet IRT, EtherNet/IP™, EtherCAT®, Powerlink and Sercos III. These protocols are implemented as slave configurations on TI’s processors and can be dynamically loaded instantaneously.

TI’s industrial portfolio offers differentiated hardware and software solutions as well as tools and support to help customers develop innovative products. Key application areas include motor control, programmable logic controllers, sensor transmitters, industrial communication, smart grid, building access control and energy management.