Infineon 3-Phase Motor Drive EVB with FOC

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About

This roadtest will test drive a three-phase inverter power stage with half-bridge gate-driver IC based on CoolMOS™ PFD7, the latest Infineon’s SJ technology with fast body diode. It includes a debugger and a fan motor.

 

About the Evaluation Board

This is a complete evaluation board that includes IPN60R1K5PFD7S discrete Superjunction (SJ) MOSFET and 2ED28073J06F gate-driver ICs for motor drives application. Ready-to-use three-phase inverter power stage with 600V blocking voltage - up to 100W. In combination with iMOTION™ controller, the user can run a motor within one hour with a smooth start-up using inductive sensing.

 

The EVAL_DRIVE_3PH_PFD7 is designed to provide easy to use power stage based on Infineon's discrete CoolMOS™ Superjunction MOSFET. The board is equipped with all assembly groups for sensorless field oriented control (FOC). It provides a single-phase AC-connector, rectifier, and three-phase output for connecting the motor. The power stage also contains emitter shunts for current sensing and a voltage divider for DC-link voltage measurement.

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Features

  • Low BOM count due to the CoolMOS™ PFD7 and latest iMOTION™ algorithm
  • Smooth startup using inductive sensing
  • Best light-load efficiency solution
  • Sensorless field-oriented control (FOC)
  • Ease of use with graphical user interface (GUI)

 

Applications

  • Drives
  • Heating
  • Home appliances
  • Household
  • IoT
  • Motor control & drives
  • Power supply (SMPS)
  • Pumps

 

About Debug Probe

It is a functional Isolated Debug Probe, based on SEGGER J-Link Technology. XMC™ Link is an Isolated Debug Probe for all XMC™ Microcontrollers. The debug probe is based on SEGGER J-Link debug firmware, which enables use with DAVE™ and all common third-party compiler/IDEs (Altium Limited, Atollic, ARM/KEIL, IAR Systems, iSystem, Rowley Associates) known from the wide ARM® ecosystem.

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Features

  • 1kV DC functional isolation
  • Debug protocols
  • JTAG
  • Serial Wire Debug (SWD)
  • Serial Wire Viewer/Output (SWV/SWO)
  • Infineon's Single Pin Debug (SPD)
  • Virtual COM Port (UART-to-USB Bridge)

 

About the Fan Motor

An ebm-pabst 3-phase axial fan motor with the following specs.

axial fan motor

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Additional Information

Important Dates

Enrollment Begin: Apr 11 2021

Enrollment Ends: May 12 2021

RoadTesters Selected: May 26 2021 (estimated)

Product Shipped: May 28 2021

RoadTesting Begins: June 4 2021

Reminder/Update Email:July 5 2021

Submit Reviews By: Sept 20 2021

*The element14 RoadTest Staff will send this reminder/update email.

**If a RoadTester is unable to meet the deadline, please notify the RoadTest Program Lead, , as soon as possible before the deadline.

 

How to locate the official RoadTest review form:  How To Locate the Official RoadTest Review Form (duplicate)

RoadTesters

Terms and Conditions

Infineon 3-Phase Motor Drive EVB with FOC– RoadTest

Terms and Conditions

These are the terms and conditions which govern the Infineon 3-Phase Motor Drive EVB with FOC RoadTest contest. This Contest requires participants to submit an application indicating their previous experience with this type of equipment/component, information on what they would do to test the equipment/component, and the applicant’s desire to post a thorough review of their experience with images, photos, or other supplemental materials. Participants will be required to meet the Conditions for Participation.  The winners of this RoadTest will receive the item(s) listed below. RoadTest Reviews are due no later than 60 days after the receipt of the item(s). No other prizes are offered.

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Prize: Infineon 3-Phase Motor Drive EVB with FOC

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Comment List
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    this is the answer of Infineon to solve the problem. I tried this value but nothing happens again.

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  • I contacted Infineon trying to get you guys some help.

  • I will publish my review, with a bad judgment. I tried different configurations and nothing happens.

    Do you have any news?

  • Electromagnetics is confusing and I am not an expert, but I wouldn't have expected the displayed resistance to be constant - the DC resistance would be constant but when you have AC then you're really measuring impedance and reporting the real part of the impedance (as far as I understand it). That would change depending on frequency as the motor winding is probably going to act like a big inductor wound on a core which is partially-saturated depending on the position of the permanent magnet. Increase in the resistance would be normal to me ... that's what inductors do? In part, this is why your LCR meter allows you to characterise at different frequencies ...

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    (from https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/analogwire/posts/when-to-use-an-rf-choke-vs-an-inductor )

     

    - Gough

  • Hy and ,

    These are my measure for the fan. I measured in two different frequencies, one at 50Hz, and the second measure was at 1kHz.

    I would have expected to see a constant resistance to varying frequencies, unfortunately, this is not the case.

    What do you think?

     

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    In the last row, Rs=170 Ohm, Rs=178 Ohm, Rs=191 Ohm, the measure has been done with the multimeter.

     

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  • I tried to confirm that this morning just quickly, following the instructions given by MCEWizard:

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    I hooked one winding to the scope, set it to relatively high sensitivity and slow time-base and spun the rotor for one revolution precisely:

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    That looks to be two poles to me, rather than four poles as stated in the application note. The RPM rating and mains-frequency speed also suggested to me that this is a two-pole motor, as a four-pole should have about half the speed rating.

     

    - Gough

  • I have not yet received a response for the parameters from the company that manufactures the fan. I hope to receive some documents tomorrow.
    I connected the fan to the power supply with 100V, but it is not possible to establish the number of pole pairs of the fan.

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    In my case there is quite different bad luck as I'm still waiting for the fan. The board was delivered a week ago.

    Ah, shucks. I didn't realise you had encountered logistical difficulties ... that's a shame.

     

    While I have built my stand out of PVC pipe as I don't fancy trying to "catch" a falling metal-bladed 1.7kg fan if something goes wrong ...

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    ... I am still yet to get more than just a short "twitch" out of it although the board did not trip a fault state and just thinks it's spinning but at an unstable speed. It suggests to me I still haven't gotten the right parameters and that the angle estimation is probably quite sensitive to that. I've put in some time to send off a support request to Infineon (as the application note mentions tests with this motor) and hopefully there will be more information forthcoming soon regarding the parameters and/or the parameter file they used.

     

    - Gough

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    Did either of you   or   have any luck getting it spinning?


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    In my case there is quite different bad luck as I'm still waiting for the fan. The board was delivered a week ago.

  • Glad you were able to access the "special documentation", as I did exactly that and got the red errors in the image above and was not given access. I wonder if something is wrong with the serial number that came with my board.

     

    I will ask to contact Infineon on our behalf to obtain the parameter file they used to try and get it going. I'd agree that I've had to "fight" a few issues along the way with confusing documentation and changes in software interfaces (especially MCEWizard) that make the documentation hard to follow. It's a shame that even with the parameters I have (that I think are right for the motor), I still can't get it running.

     

    For now, the parameters I have are as follows:

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    They don't actually get the motor going, but as far as I know it should be right. Based on the RPM, I thought it was a two-pole motor, but the quick-start says it is four ... changing that didn't help. The Ke constant is also confusing to derive - this is what I got spinning the fan by hand:

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    Based on f=5.13442Hz and assuming two poles, then the spin is approximately 308RPM. With Vpp of 1.9453 / 1.414 = 1.3757 Vrms. Normalising to 1000RPM, this is 1.3757/0.308 = 4.46669 V which is where I got 4.5V from. But if it was a four pole motor, then the RPM would be halved and thus the Ke would be doubled - I tried 9V for the Ke value and still couldn't get it going. This is assuming I've interpreted the documentation correctly - I may well have stuffed up somewhere ...

     

    I've tried raising the minimum running speed, throwing the speed ramp rate around (I tried 10, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000). I've tried disabling open loop start-up, putting it into 10, 25, 50 RPM/sec. I've enabled parking for 1s, 3s with no change, also tried a low speed threshold of 100, 200, 250, 500RPM.

     

    To be honest, I've almost run out of ideas. The big question I have is the proper Ld inductance - I measured Lq just fine with my LCR and used the same value for Ld, but this means the motor has no "saliency" which might be throwing off the algorithm. I tried putting in a lower value for Ld as I suspect that is what naturally happens, but I think trying a value of 300 mH resulted in parameter out of range errors.

     

    - Gough