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The AEK-CON-AFLVIP2 connector board is designed to connect a car headlight solution demo featuring automatic adjustment of the low beam direction based on road geometry and tilt angles affected by weight distributions inside the car. The board can connect an MCU discovery board, such as the AEK-MCU-C4MLIT1 (with 4x37 connector), with two AEK-MOT-SM81M1 stepper motor boards governing low beam direction (left-right and up-down), and a AEK-LED-21DISM1 LED driver board capable of supplying the different LED lights included in a modern front headlight assembly. It can also connect a high-side switch board from the EV-VNx range (e.g., EV-VN7050AS) to control a cooling fan for the LED headlight. The AEK-CON-AFLVIP2 board is part of the AutoDevKit initiative, which allows you to build and test various application prototypes from a set of available boards and generating the dedicated drivers and pin assignments using the SPC5-Studio integrated development environment.

The AEK-CON-BSPOTV1 board is principally a connector board for the Blind-spot Educational Tool actuators and loads. It conveniently arranges all the wire connections from the AEKD-BLINDSPOTA1 into a single 8-pin connector, and has another connector for the EV-VN7050AS board that drives a DC geared motor for the conveyor belt. Finally, the board simplifies power connection between the boards and signal transfer from the LED driving board AEK-LED-21DISM1 and the Hall sensor. The Blind-spot detection and warning educational tool is designed help developers to become familiar with AutoDevKit based development. The AEKD-BLINDSPOTA1 kit is a hardware assembly set with all required loads for the specific application, and the AEKD-BLINDSPOTB1 set consists of electronic boards to control the entire system. Blind-spot detection is simulated through magnetic field detection by means of a Hall sensor mounted on a stationary car and magnets mounted inside another car placed on the conveyor belt moved by a 12 V DC gearbox motor with 40 RPM and very high torque. The entire tool will help you develop the skills to build the firmware to control the system triggers using SPC5-Studio extended with AutoDevKit plugin. You can compare your resulting code with source code provided in the AutoDevKit plugin, and system functionality can be tested by downloading the STSW-BLINDSPOT SPC58EC firmware.

The AEK-CON-SENSOR1 connector board is designed to interface MEMS sensor boards in DIL 24 socket to an SPC5 MCU discovery board like the AEK-MCU-C4MLIT1 hosting a SPC58EC80E5 Chorus family automotive MCU with 4 MB flash. The connector board includes a 1.8 V LDO voltage regulator to supply MEMS boards. Two male strip connectors allow connecting the AEK-MCU-C4MLIT1: the main one (5x2) is used for power supply, SPI interface and signal interrupt, whereas the second one (7x2) is used for optional GPIO connections depending on the plugged MEMS sensor board. For the MEMS sensor board connection, three female strip connectors are used: the main one (12x2) hosts the MEMS sensors in DIL 24 socket, whereas the other two (3x2) host digital microphones.

The AEK-LCD-DT028V1 evaluation board hosts a 2.8" LCD display with resistive touch for a graphical user interface (GUI) which interacts with SPC5 MCU discovery boards. The TFT SPI LCD display has a resolution of 240x320 pixels and features resistive touch managed by an on-board SPI touch screen controller.

The AEK-LED-21DISM1 LED driver board is designed for high brightness automotive LED front lighting applications according to the AutoDevKit initiative. It can control four LED strings through two embedded L99LD21 flexible LED drivers with high efficiency boost controller and two embedded buck converters. The boost controller section in each L99LD21 LED driver integrates a high current gate driver for an external N-channel MOSFET and delivers a constant output voltage to two integrated buck converters. The boost controller of two devices can be stacked to allow dual phase operation for high power applications, with an interleaving pattern for improved input current ripple and current load sharing. The buck converter integrates an N-channel MOSFET driven by a bootstrap circuit. The board uses SPI communication with an external microcontroller via a 12-pin male connector, and a special Limp Home Mode implemented in the L99LD21 driver ensures that active communication with the MCU is regularly monitored. You can use the AutoDevKit library extension for the SPC5-Studio development environment to install board firmware drivers that are immediately compatible with SPC5-family MCUs. The overall package is designed to address automotive lighting applications, including high beams and low beams, daytime running lights, turn indicators, position lights, side markers and fog lights.

The AEK-MCU-C1MLIT1 board exploits the functionality of SPC582B60E1 Power Architecture®microcontrollers with full access to CPUs, I/O signals and peripherals. The SPC58 2B Line MCUs are designed to address automotive vehicle body, gateway and industrial oriented applications. Free ready-to-run application firmware examples are available in SPC5-STUDIO software with AutoDevKit plug-in (STSW-AUTODEVKIT) to support quick evaluation and development.

The AEK-MCU-C4MLIT1 board is designed to address Automotive and Transportation applications and other applications requiring automotive safety and security levels, also thanks to the Hardware Secure Module (HSM) embedded on the SPC58EC80E5 MCU, which renders it compliant with the EVITA Medium standard. The board exploits the functionality of SPC58EC80E5 32-bit automotive grade ASIL-B microcontroller with 4 MB flash, full access to the two MCU cores, GPIOs and peripherals such as ISO CAN FD (with transceiver) and UART at a very competitive price. The board hosts a PLS debugger/programmer and an extension connector (4x37 pins) for functional interaction across boards that are compatible with the AutoDevKit initiative. The PLS Universal Debug Engine (UDE) software is available for free download and includes a free perpetual 256 Kbyte debugging/programming license. The SPC5-STUDIO software includes ready-to-run peripheral firmware examples and low-level drivers to support quick evaluation and development. This IDE is available for free download and includes visual configurable code generation engine, board support package (BSP), graphical PinMap editor, startup routines and interrupt services. The AutoDevKit plugin extends SPC5-STUDIO with support for a set of functional boards (e.g. LED drivers, DC motor drivers, stepper motor drivers, wireless communication, digital power supplies, etc.) and libraries implementing useful functions. To install AutoDevKit, download the STSW-AUTODEVKIT plugin and follow the procedure to install the plug-in for Eclipse/SPC5-Studio.

The AEK-MCU-SPC5LNK is a debugger/programmer dongle for SPC58 (and SPC56 coming within year 2024) automotive microcontrollers. It consists of a passive USB-to-JTAG debugger and programmer, which provides a cost-effective, small-size, and fast-prototyping solution for any vehicle applications. This dongle ensures short development time through easy-to-use hardware and simple software fully integrated into SPC5-Studio and AutoDevKit Studio IDEs. The JTAG interface ensures an easy plug to any STMicroelectronics standalone automotive microcontroller and its evaluation boards (compliant with the IEEE 1149.1 JTAG protocol). The AEK-MCU-SPC5LNK provides a virtual COM port interface that enables the host PC to communicate with the microcontroller through UART. Two different types of dongles are available: AEK-MCU-SPC5LNK, to be used with OpenOCD, and AEK-MCU-SPC5LNKU, to be used with UDE PLS. If you are using AEK-MCU-SPC5LNK, there is no need to install additional software. In case of issues, uninstall and reinstall the drivers as described in UM3303. If you are using AEK-MCU-SPC5LNKU and you want to continue using UDE PLS as debugger, there is no need to install additional software. Otherwise, to use OpenOCD, refer to UM3303. The OpenOCD drivers are freely downloadable at the following link: STSW-AEK-SPC5LNK.

The AEK-MOT-2DC70S1 is a very compact solution for multi DC motor driving applications, embedding all the driver and signal decoding functions on the same board. Together with current sensing capability, the AEK-MOT-2DC70S1 features three independent encoder inputs. The DC motor drivers have separate half-bridge driving which allows up to three separate motors with only two devices, using an appropriate driving sequence. The motor driver is ideal for two-wheel applications and allows engineers to build highly compact motor control solutions. The two high-side drivers facilitate additional driving for system actuators (unidirectional DC motor, LED, pump, etc.).

The AEK-MOT-2DC40Y1 is a very compact solution for multi DC motor driving applications, embedding all the driver and signal decoding functions on the same board. Together with current sensing capability, the AEK-MOT-2DC40Y1 features three independent encoder inputs. The DC motor drivers have separate half-bridge driving which allows up to three separated motors with only two devices, using an appropriate driving sequence. The motor driver is ideal for two-wheel applications and allows engineers to build highly compact motor control solutions. The two high-side drivers facilitate additional driving for system actuators (unidirectional DC motor, LED, pump, etc.).