Overview

The Enclustra Universal Drive Controller IP Core is not only a motor controller for DC, brushless and stepper motors, it’s a full motion control solution featuring position control and a trajectory planner. Further, there is no need for an extra drive controller chip that would consume precious PCB space and unnecessarily extend the project BOM. Selecting Enclustra’s Universal Drive Controller IP Core for the motor control needs of future projects will significantly reduce time to market as well as the overall system cost.

Highlights

• Evaluation Kit available
• Support for DC motors, Brushless motors and stepper motors/li>
• Support for encoderss
• Field oriented control (FOC) for BLDC motors
• Completely autonomous error handling
• Optimized for lowest total
  solution cost
• Support for ADC-sharing between different devices

Benefits

• Significantly lower CPU load due to completely autonomous control loops
• Single-chip solution (fieldbus access, CPU and drive controller on the same chip)
• Easy integration, lowest solution cost
• Plenty of parallel processing power, zero jitter
• Well defined interfaces for customization
• Great reusability due to configurable controller structure

Features

• Up to 8 drives per controller
• Up to 4 PID controllers per drive (position, velocity, current(s)) at up to 200kHz control rate
• Velocity- and acceleration-feed-forward
• Position control and trajectory planner
• Microstepping for stepper motors
• Voltage, current and temperature supervision
• Separate PWM clock domain for high-resolution PWM
• Vendor-independent implementation
• Industry Standard AXI-4 interface
• Fully integrated with vendor tools (Quartus/QSYS, Vivado/IPI)

Architecture

The Universal Drive Controller Evaluation Kit provides a full featured design platform to build motion control applications. The kit provides an out-of-the box hardware platform with reference design, to reduce development time and allow you to focus on your target application. The kit is comprised of1:

Universal Drive Controller IP Core, Evaluation License Supports up to 2 DC, stepper or BLDC motors Encrypted VHDL 1-hour time bomb Evaluation platform (QSK-DRV), containing: AMD: Mars ZX3 SoC module (MA-ZX3-20-1C-D9) & Mars PM3 base board or Intel: Mercury SA1 SoC module (ME-SA1-C6-7I-D10) & Mercury+ PE1-200 base board FMC-DR2 FMC drive control card An appropriate motor: Maxon BLDC motor (EC-max 30 with MR encoder, 24 V Version) or a DC motor or a stepper motor Reference design Two hours of included support2

1: 24V DC power supply required. Functional testing of the FMC-DR2 card is limited to the Drive Evaluation Kit.
2: Included only once per site and year

Product Selection Matrix

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*The base package requires at least one of the AMD/Intel as well as one device unit options.

Deliverables

• Universal Drive IP Core
  • VHDL source files (plain or encrypted, depending on product options)
  • Reference design
  • User manual
• Universal Drive API
  • C source code
  • Application software example
  • User manual

Site License Model

• The license is granted to an "authorized site", meaning a single geographical location with radius < 5 km in which the licensee conducts business.
• The licensed material can be used for unlimited projects and/or end products developed at the authorized site.

Target Applications

• Robotics
• Automation
• Medical diagnostics
• Semiconductor handling
• Automotive

Related Products

• FMC DR2 Drive Control Card