Texas Instruments: RDK-BLDC- Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor RDK

sangeetack — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:46:40 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by sangeetack on 10/25/2013 12:46:40 PM

Buy Now

Development Tools

Kit Overview

Texas Instruments Stellaris® Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor Control Reference Design Kit (RDK-BLDC ) with Ethernet and CAN contains all the necessary hardware and software for you to design, develop, and integrate your BLDC motor applications. The RDK-BLDC combines the strength and flexibility of Stellaris microcontrollers with Fairchild Semiconductor's power modules to create a sophisticated four-quadrant motor control design for three-phase brushless DC motors rated at up to 36 V. Brushless DC motors are particularly suited for use in factory automation, robotics, electric wheelchairs and mobility devices, pumping and ventilation systems, and small appliances.

The RDK-BLDC contains the feature-rich Stellaris LM3S8971 microcontroller with Ethernet and CAN, a three-phase brushless DC motor, a graphical control program for Windows®, and accompanying cables, source code, and documentation. The RDK-BLDC takes advantage of the integrated features of the Stellaris microcontroller and the processing power of the ARM® Cortex™-M3 core to optimally control a wide range of motors in diverse applications. The graphical control program allows you to experiment with varying drive parameters and observe the effect on motor performance.

The Stellaris family offers efficient performance and extensive integration, favorably positioning the device into cost-conscious applications requiring significant control-processing and connectivity capabilities. The Stellaris LM3S8000 series combines Bosch Controller Area Network technology with both a 10/100 Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) and Physical (PHY) layer. The LM3S8971-IQC50-A2 microcontroller is targeted for industrial applications, including remote monitoring, electronic point-of-sale machines, test and measurement equipment, network appliances and switches, factory automation, HVAC and building control, gaming equipment, motion control, medical instrumentation, and fire and security.

Ordering Information:

Part Number	Description
MDL-BLDC	Stellaris® Brushless DC Motor Control Board Only
RDK-BLDC	Stellaris® Brushless DC Motor Control Reference Design Kit

Key Applications: Industrial Automation ,Robotics,Electric wheelchairs ,Mobility devices,Pumping ,Ventilation systems,Small appliances

More Development Kits and Tools
	Texas Instruments Development Kits		Texas Instruments Development Tools
	Development Platforms & Kits		element14 Knode

Development Tools

Software Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
IDE	Embest	CoIDE	ARM Cortex™-M	CooCox offer freely available powerful software development tool for ARM Cortex-M3 & Cortex-M0 based microcontrollers. Coocox Tools organizes and provides the knowledge required by developers. Learn More
RTOS	Embest	CoOS	ARM Cortex™-M	CoOS is a free and open RTOS from CooCox, designed specifically for Cortex-M processor, supports preemptive priority and round-robin, Semaphore, Mutex, Flag, Mailbox and Queue for communication & synchronization, highly scalable, minimum system kernel is only 974Bytes, supports interrupt while task switching, supports stack overflow detection, supports the platforms of ICCARM, ARMCC, GCC. Learn More
IDE	Texas Instruments	Code Composer Studio (CCStudio)	TI ARM MCUs	CCStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for TI embedded processor families. CCStudio comprises a suite of tools used to develop and debug embedded applications. It includes compilers for each of TI's device families, source code editor, project build environment, debugger, profiler, simulators, real-time operating system and many other features. Learn More
IDE	ARM	Keil MDK-ARM	ARM Cortex™-M / Cortex-R4 / ARM7™ / ARM9™	The MDK-ARM is a complete software development environment for Cortex™-M, Cortex-R4, ARM7™ and ARM9™ processor-based devices. MDK-ARM is specifically designed for microcontroller applications, it is easy to learn and use, yet powerful enough for the most demanding embedded applications. Learn More
RTOS	Micrium	µC/OS-III	TI ARM MCUs	μC/OS-III is Micrium’s newest RTOS, designed for developers who need to save time on their current and next embedded sytem projects. Using a commercial real-time kernel such as μC/OS-III provides a solid foundation and framework to the design engineer dealing with the growing complexity of embedded designs. Learn More
RTOS	Segger	embOS	TI ARM MCUs	SEGGER embOS (Real Time Operating System) follows strict, yet efficient coding and documentation standards. embOS is a priority-controlled real time operating system, designed to be used as foundation for the development of embedded real-time applications. Learn More

Hardware Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
Debugger	Embest	ColinkEx	ARM Cortex™-M	ARM Cortex-M MCU JTAG Hardware Debugging Probe which supports in CooCox software and Keil Realview MDK
Emulator / Debugger / Programmer	ARM	ULINK2	ARM Cortex™-M / ARM7™ / ARM9™	ULINK2 Debug Adapter
Emulator / Debugger / Programmer	ARM	ULINKPro	ARM Cortex™-M / ARM7™ / ARM9™	ULINKpro Debug and Trace Unit
Emulator	Segger	J-Link	ARM Cortex™-M / Cortex-R4 / Cortex-A / ARM7™ / ARM9™	JTAG/SWD Emulator with USB interface
Programmer	Segger	Flasher ARM	ARM Cortex™-M / Cortex-R4 / Cortex-A / ARM7™ / ARM9™	Flash Programmer for ARM and Cortex cores

Technical Documents

Learning Center

Type	Description
Solution Guide	Texas Instruments: Solutions Guide For Motor Control
Application Note	Texas Instruments: AN01283: System Design Guidelines For Stellaris Microcontrollers
Release Note	Texas Instruments: Release Notes on StellarisWare
User Manual	Texas Instruments: User's Manual For Stellaris LM3S8971 BLDC Motor Control RDK (Rev. C)
Datasheet	Texas Instruments: Data Sheet for Stellaris LM3S8971 BLDC Board
Readme	Texas Instruments: Readme First Guide For Stellaris LM3S8971 BLDC RDK (Rev. A)
Reference Manual	Texas Instruments: Reference Manual For Stellaris BLDC Motor Control Kit (RDK)
Whitepaper	Texas Instruments: Get to Work in 10 Minutes for Stellaris family
Datasheet	Texas Instruments: Data Sheet For Stellaris LM3S8971 Microcontroller(Rev. F)

Design Elements

Type	Description
Application Library	Texas Instruments: AN0126 - Sample Code for Using Stellaris Microcontrollers Internal Flash Memory to Emulate EEPROM
Application Library	Texas Instruments: AN01245 - Sample Code for Creating an Autonomous Car with the Stellaris LM3S Microcontroller
Application Library	Texas Instruments: AN01242 - Sample Code for Using the Stellaris Serial Flash Loader
Application Library	Texas Instrument: AN01274 - Sample Code for Configuring Stellaris with Pin Multiplexing

Video

www.youtube.com/watch

Kit Features

RDK-BLDC Kit features:

Advanced motor control for three-phase brushless DC motors
Four quadrant operation
Hall Effect, Quadrature, and Sensorless operation modes
Flexible RDK platform accelerates integration process
On-board braking circuit
Incremental quadrature encoder input
Analog and digital control inputs
Test mode push-button
Status LEDs indicate Power, Run, and Fault conditions
Optional power-managed fan for forced-air cooling
Screw terminals for all power and signal wiring
JTAG/SWD port for software debugging

Kit Contents

The RDK-BLDC ships with everything needed to evaluate BLDC motor control including:

Main control circuit board
3-phase brushless DC motor
24V wall power supply
Retractable Ethernet cable
Debug adapter
Graphical control program for Windows™ on CD
Reference Design Kit CD containing Quickstart Guide, User Manual, Software Reference Manual, source code, BOM, schematics, and Gerber files

Tags: cortex_m3, arm_cortex_m3, control, lm3s8971, dc_motor, stellaris, texas_instruments, arm, motor, brushless_dc_motor