STMicroelectronics

The SPC5-MCTK-01 Automotive Motor Controller Toolkit bundles combines both SPC560P automotive microcontroller the L9907 driver and is now available for purchase on the st.com website, together with the Field Oriented Control library (SPC5-MCTK-LIB) and monitoring tools. The kit includes a 24V, 64 Watt motor to simplify the set-up time. The hardware is made of SPC560P-DISP MCU platform and EVAL-L9907 evaluation boards and inverter. Software is a key component of the platform and the library is designed for flexibility and ease of integration into multiple SPC5 automotive microcontroller platform. Today both automotive microcontrollers SPC560P and SPC56EL are supported. The software package includes: The motor control library, capable to drive single or dual Field Oriented Control (FOC) 3-phase Permanent Magnet motors for single and 2-shunt topology power stage while managing HALL, Encoder and Resolver sensors as well as sensor-less algorithm configuration. A helpful plug-in configurator fully integrated into SPC5Studio Open Development Environment that helps and guide user to find the best setting in terms of control efficiency and performances based on the target platform and application. SPC5 Motor Control Live Monitor to visually check and control the motor, change on-fly control algorithm parameters (such as: amplification gain, reference speed) for a fine tune configuration Demo Application examples are available for SPC560P, L9907, STGAP1AS and L99ASC03G. Embedded software library and plug-in configurator can easily be installed as additional component on a new or pre-installed SPC5Studio environment. Together with the Live Monitor it allows to reduce the design effort in motor control application set up. Demo application examples, and a full documentation package, complete the offer.

These 32-bit automotive microcontrollers are a family of System-on-Chip (SoC) devices that contain many new features coupled with high performance 90 nm CMOS technology to provide substantial reduction of cost per feature and significant performance improvement. The advanced and cost-efficient host processor core of this automotive controller family is built on Power Architecture® technology. This family contains enhancements that improve the architecture’s fit in embedded applications, includes additional instruction support for Digital Signal Processing (DSP), integrates technologies—such as an enhanced time processor unit, enhanced queued analog-to-digital converter, Controller Area Network, and an enhanced modular input-output system—that are important for today’s lower-end powertrain applications. The device has a single level of memory hierarchy consisting of up to 94 KB on-chip SRAM and up to 1.5 MB of internal flash memory. The device also has an External Bus Interface (EBI) for ‘calibration’.

The Leopard series microcontrollers are system-on-chip devices that are built on Power Architecture technology and contain enhancements that improve the architecture’s fit in embedded applications, include additional instruction support for digital signal processing (DSP) and integrate technologies such as an enhanced time processor unit, enhanced queued analog-to-digital converter, Controller Area Network, and an enhanced modular input-output system. The SPC56XL60/54 family of 32-bit microcontrollers is the latest achievement in integrated automotive application controllers. It belongs to an expanding range of automotive-focused products designed to address electrical hydraulic power steering (EHPS), electric power steering (EPS) and airbag applications. The advanced and cost-efficient host processor core of the SPC56XL60/54 automotive controller family complies with the Power Architecture embedded category. It operates at speeds as high as 120 MHz and offers high-performance processing optimized for low power consumption. It capitalizes on the available development infrastructure of current Power Architecture devices and is supported with software drivers, operating systems and configuration code to assist with users’ implementations.