AD7403

• Minimize setup time with out-of-the-box functionality and begin testing quickly
• Prototype rapidly and then deploy with the FlexMC Kit
• Get started with sample code as a base for their own application development

The FlexMC Motor Control Development Platform^TM is a rapid development system for any motor control solution. The FlexMC Kit^TM enables you to accelerate time-to-market and increase performance with powerful model-based design tools. This solution combines hardware and software with out-of-the-box functionality for a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) with hall sensor, encoder, or sensorless feedback.

Solution Overview
The FlexMC Kit has the hardware and software required to spin the kit’s motor under open or closed loop speed control in conjunction with an ADSP-CM408 EZ Kit. The software is provided as an executable file which can be flashed to the ADSP-CM408 processor using the ADI serial boot-loader utility. A .NET-based graphical user interface (GUI) is provided to enable motor start-stop, speed control, and data visualization. Sample C-code is also provided for open loop Volts/Hertz control of a motor.

The FlexMC Kit hardware comes in two variants. The kit option includes a PMSM motor with encoder, a 24V motor drive board, and a power supply. The board-only option includes the motor drive board only. In this case users can connect their own motor and power source. In both cases, the power board connects directly to an Analog Devices ADSP-CM408 Mixed-Signal Control Processor EZ Kit (sold separately). Easy connection to motors and the CM408 EZ Kit make this system perfect for your prototyping needs.

Additional rapid prototyping MATLAB/Simulink tools and support can be obtained by purchasing this kit from Boston Engineering

• Low Voltage Motor Control Board, 12-36V, 10A
• 24V, 3-phase PMSM (not included in board-only option)
• Quadrature Incremental Encoder (not included in board-only option)
• SOLD SEPERATELY: ADI ADSP-CM408 EZ Kit

• Executable Demo Application
• Sample application C code

Note: To get started, download software and to get technical support on the FlexMC kit go to EngineerZone:
Sample C Code for EV-MCS-LVDRV-Z platform
Getting started with the EV-MCS-LVDRV-Z motor control platform

• Model and implement motor control algorithms rapidly with sensored and sensorless operation
• Minimize setup time with out-of-the-box functionality and begin testing quickly
• Leverage the high-performance modeling environment to develop, debug, and test new control loops
• Prototype rapidly and then deploy with the FlexMC Kit

The FlexMC Motor Control Development Platform^TM is a rapid development system for any motor control solution. The FlexMC Kit^TM enables you to accelerate time-to-market and increase performance with powerful model-based design tools. The ADI/Boston Engineering solution combines hardware and software with out-of-the-box functionality for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) with hall sensor, encoder, or sensorless feedback.

Solution Overview

 The FlexMC Kit has the hardware and software required to spin the motor under open or closed loop speed control. With the FlexMC Kit, you model your system in MATLAB and Simulink, generate the C code, and then deploy. Utilizing system modeling and design concepts, the FlexMC Kit also contains libraries in MATLAB and Simulink for additional access to proven methodologies. The FlexMC Kit hardware includes a PMSM motor with encoder and a Boston Engineering universal AC input drive board that connects directly to an Analog Devices ADSP-CM408 Mixed-Signal Control Processor EZ Kit. Users can prototype with PC power using MATLAB and Simulink, then deploy with the FlexMC Kit. Easy connection to motors and the ADSP-CM408 EZ Kit make this system perfect for your prototyping needs.

Universal AC Kit Contents

Hardware:

The EVAL-AD7403FMCZ/EVAL-AD7403-8FMCZ are full featured evaluation boards designed to allow the user to easily evaluate all features of the AD7403/AD7403-8 isolated analog-to-digital converters (ADC). The evaluation board can be controlled by the EVAL-SDP-CH1Z via FMCZ connector (J9). The SDP-H1 board (EVAL-SDP-CH1Z) allows the evaluation board to be controlled through a USB port of a PC using the evaluation board software available for download from the product page or from the included installer CD.

On-board components include the following:

ADuM6000: isolated iCoupler^® 5kV, DC / DC converter

ADP2441: 36 V, 1A, synchronous, step down DC-DC regulator

ADP7104ARDZ-5.0: 5 V low noise LDO

Features

• Full featured evaluation board for the AD7403/AD7403-8
• On-board power supplies
• Standalone capability
• System demonstration platform (SDP-H1) compatible (EVAL-SDP-CH1Z)
• PC software for control and data analysis (CD with software included in evaluation kit)

• Evaluation board
• CD containing evaluation board software installation

• EVAL-SDP-CH1Z (must be ordered separately) includes a USB cable and 12v wall wart
• Signal source
• PC running Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 with USB 2.0 port

The isolated inverter platform enables users to:

• Evaluate ADI’s new, fully featured isolated gate drivers (ADuM4135) technology in a system-level application at realistic dc bus voltages (EV-MCS-ISOINVEP-Z)
• Evaluate ADI simple dual isolated gate driver (ADuM4223) technology in a system-level application at realistic dc bus voltages (EV-MCS-ISOINV-Z)
• Evaluate ADI sigma-delta modulators (AD7403) for voltage and current measurement or feedback in a realistic switching environment
• Develop motor control algorithms utilizing ADI isolated sigma-delta current and voltage feedback
• Test bench their motor control software/firmware with a flexible hardware development platform
• Evaluate an elegant gate driver bias supply solution using the ADP1621

This evaluation board is obsolete and no longer recommended.

The FMCMOTCON2 evaluation kit enables users to:

• Model and implement motor control algorithms rapidly for high performance servo systems, incorporating system modelling and design concepts using Mathworks model based design
• Reduce time needed to move a motor control system from concept to production, by providing a prototyping system to verify the hardware and control algorithms before moving to production stage.

This evaluation board is obsolete and no longer recommended.

The AD-FMCMOTCON2-EBZ is a complete high performance servo system on an FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) board, the purpose of which is to provide a complete motor drive system demonstrating efficient and high dynamic control of three phase PMSM and induction motors up to 48V and 20A.

Two motors can be driven at the same time, each motor having its separate power supply. The system incorporates high quality power sources; reliable power, control, and feedback signals isolation; accurate measurement of motor current & voltage signals; high speed interfaces for control signals to allow fast controller response; industrial Ethernet high speed interfaces; single ended Hall, differential Hall, encoder and resolver interfaces; digital position sensors interface; flexible control with a FPGA/SoC interface.

The kit consists of two boards: a controller board and a drive board. An optional AD-DYNO2-EBZ dynamometer can also be purchased through Avnet and is intended to be an extension of the drive system.

Controller Board

• Digital board for interfacing with the low and high voltage drive boards
• Compatible with all Xilinx FPGA platforms with FMC LPC or HPC connectors
• FMC signals voltage adaptation interface for seamless operation on all FMC voltage levels
• Fully isolated digital control and feedback signals
• Isolated Xilinx XADC interface
• 2 x Gbit Ethernet PHYs for high speed industrial communication, with 3rd party EtherCAT support
• Single ended Hall, Differential Hall, Encoder, Resolver interfaces
• Digital sensors interfaces
  • EnDat
  • BISS Interface

Drive Board

• Drives motors up to 48V @ 20A
• Drives 2 motors simultaneously
• High frequency drive stage implemented with ADI isolated gate drivers
• Supported motor types
  BLDC
  PMSM
  Brushed DC
  Stepper (bipolar / unipolar)
• Integrated over current protection
• Reverse voltage protection
• Current and Voltage measurement using isolated ADCs
• BEMF zero cross detection for sensorless control of PMSM or BLDC motors
• Separate voltage supplies for the 2 motors so that the motors don't influence each other

Dynamometer System with Embedded Control

• Two BLDC motors connected by a rigid couple in a dyno setup, which can be used to test real-time motor control performance.
• One BLDC motor acts as an electronically adjustable load and is driven by the embedded control system. This motor can be directly connected to the FMC motor drive to get complex / active loads. The load can be driven also by the AD-FMCMOTCON2-EBZ to implement dynamic load profiles.
• The other BLDC motor is driven by the FMC motor drive.
• Measurement and display of load motor current
• Measurement and display of load motor speed
• External control using Analog Discovery and MathWorks Instrumentation Control Toolbox

Software:

Example reference designs showing how to use the platform with Xilinx^® FPGAs or SoCs and high performance control algorithms from Mathworks^® are provided together with the hardware. Information on the FMC board, and how to use it, the design package that surrounds it, and the software which can make it work, can be found by clicking the software link.