Infineon DC Motor Shield w/ TLE94112EL for Arduino

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About

The Infineon DC motor shield is a small evaluation board equipped with  TLE94112EL for use with Arduino. The TLE94112EL is capable to drive up to 6 small DC motors in parallel mode or up to 11 DC motors in cascaded mode. All outputs can drive up to 0.9A. The outputs can be used stand-alone or combined to increase driving capability up to 3.6A.

 

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Infineon DC Motor Shield with XMC1100 Boot Kit for Arduino

 

 

Features:

Driver with 12 half-bridge outputs to drive DC motors, resistive or inductive loads

  • Driver is protected against over-temperature, over-current, over-voltage, under-voltage and enables diagnosis of over-current, over-voltage, under-voltage
  • SPI interface with zero clock diagnosis
  • Enhanced EMC performance
  • Integrated PWM generator with 3 different frequencies (80Hz, 100Hz, 200Hz)

 

Benefits:

  • Shield enables compact design for multi-motor applications
  • Cost efficient design for multi-motor applications
  • Less communication with µC through integrated PWM generator and zero clock diagnosis
  • Lower cost by reducing external components to EME requirements

 

Applications:

  • Multi-motor applications
  • DC motors and voltage controlled bipolar stepper motors
  • Toys
  • HVAC systems

 

Click here to obtain XMC1100 Software for Arduino IDE

Important Dates

Enrollment Begins: Mar 12 2017

Enrollment Ends: Apr 18, 2017

RoadTesters Selected: Apr 25 2017 (estimated)

Product Shipped: May 19 2017

RoadTesting Begins: May 26 2017

Reminder/Update Email: July 10 2017*

Submit Reviews By: July 30 2017**

 

*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.

RoadTesters

The supplier selected the following applicants as official RoadTesters:

 

Terms & Conditions

DC Motor Shield with TLE94112EL for Arduino – RoadTest

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These are the terms and conditions which govern the DC Motor Shield with TLE94112EL for Arduino 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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RoadTest: DC Motor Shield with TLE94112EL for Arduino

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Applications Close: midnight (GMT) on 17 March 2017

Announcement of Winner (estimated): 24 Mar 2017

 

Prize:  DC Motor Shield with TLE94112EL for Arduino

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RoadTest Reviews
Comment List
Anonymous
  • Hello Thomas,

     

    is the Arduino also powered from the PS, or just USB?

    It may happen your wrong functioning above 5V.

    Powering just via USB may not enough.

    I connected the Arduino controller (XMC1100) also the driver board to the power supply.

    I use the USB port just for communications and programming.

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    Best Regards

    Gerald

  • Yes, i think so too.

    But, hm... can it also happen that the Arduino was not powered correctly?

    Powering the Arduino just via USB seems not enough.

     

    Best Regards,

    Gerald

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  • Yes, you are right. Now I remember. Thanks for the reminder.

  • Hi Randall,

    this Shield is for Thomas Gambill.  He suspects the DC Motor Shield not working correctly.

    BR

    Johannes 

  • sandeepmaraprem@gmail.com

    bdrake@avantia-inc.com

     

    I just received a package from Infineon. It's the DC Motor Shield itself, not the XMC 1100 board.

     

    I know why had some failures of the 1100 boards; I believe my assistant sent them to the specific RoadTesters.

     

    I wasn't aware that there was a failure of the motor shield itself. Whoever had a shield failure, please add a comment to that effect, or massage me at

     

    Thanks.

     

    Randall Scasny

    RoadTest Program Manager

  • Hi Thomas,

    you have done a very very nice and structured video. Thanks for making it.

    I have commented the serial monitor screenshots.

    5.1V

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    6V

     

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    9V

     

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    At 5.1V: only open load are reported on
    LS1 to LS4, which is normal after a “brake low command”

    At 6 and 9V we can see that the
    activated outputs are latched off due to an overcurrent detection.

     

    This shows that the inrush current of
    the motor exceeds the device overcurrent detection.

    Note that the overcurrent filter time is
    short in order to protect the output stages (~ about 16 µs).

     

    Try to use for one motor two or more outputs in parallel, I pretty sure the motors will turn at the higher voltages.

     

    Best Regards

     

    Johannes


  • I modified Johannes' 2 motor sketch to run just one motor.  This is a screen capture of the sketch, demonstrating the "Zeroing" out of the bits for the second motor:

     

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    This is the Serial Monitor screen capture for the 9V motor (ducted fan) at 9V (reminder nothing happened during the test.):

     

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    This is the Serial Monitor for the 9V motor run at 5.1 Volts (optimum for activity as demonstrated by the video):

     

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    This is the 12V motor run by the Power Supply at 12V:

     

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    This is the 12V motor run run by the power supply at 5.4V (optimum maximum for getting things to work):

     

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    Finally, this is the Serial Monitor capture for using the 12V motor with the 12V 5Ah lead-acid battery:

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    I hope this helps!!!  Please let me know what you think.

  •  

    Sorry it took me a while but here is the test results using Johannes' sketch as well as mine.  First, this is an approximately 7 minute long video of the various "test procedures."  Make sure you have the SOUND turned ON I dubbed over the video with some narration.  I think it is pretty self explanatory.  If you can't read the Serial Monitor printout captures don't worry, I will post them here following upload of the video.  Once again, I apologize for the delay but I was the "tester, Videographer, Sound man, and editor"....lol...so it took a while.  Thanks!

     

    The following screen captures of the Serial Monitor correspond and are the exact same ones that appear in the video.  This is the 2 6V motors using Johannes sketch, but running them at a voltage of 5.1V.  (5.1V was chosen  because it seems to be the optimum voltage to get anything to work).
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    This is the same setup using my sketch which is basically the same, except it is loaded with Serial Monitor Print outs for debugging purposes:

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    This is the same setup as above but using a 6V setting, Johannes' sketch:

     

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    Repeat, but using My Test Sketch:

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    Continued on next post......

  • Alternating current electric motors may draw several times their normal full-load current when first energized

    All motors will exhibit this.

    It is tied to the inductance and that coils wanting to keep things the same.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inrush_current

     

    The above reference suggests that a DC motor will effectively present the stall current.

    Thomas states the motor rating is 0.07A run and 1.9A stall (0.48 in the video https://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1760/l/infineon-dc-motor-shield-w-tle94112el-for-arduino#comment-109123 )

     

    In theory this could cause the supply to drop below the set voltage (depending on the capcitors in his supply). Since the supply is relatvely unsophisticated, it is unlikely to shutdown.

    BUT

    From this post https://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1760/l/infineon-dc-motor-shield-w-tle94112el-for-arduino#comment-108782

    Thomas has tried eliminating the power supply by using a 12v 5AH gell cell.

     

     

    The only question I have is during the video you make the comment that you power up the USB (Arduino) before applying the power to the shield.

     

    The Arduino does setup the SPI during this time, so the better approach might be to press the reset button on the Arduino with the motor power ON.

    The arduino will start at zero and then run through the setup with the shield active. It may make no difference but it's worth a shot. image

     

    Mark

  • Thanks, Johannes!  I'll look forward to the replacement shield!  I understand fully what you are saying, but these motors I am using are relatively low current motors.  It would appear that no one else has had this issue, so this is why I think the shield may be defective.  Actually, after receiving the replacement XMC1100 card, the first time I started it up, it worked great!  So, considering the "physical" damage it had when I received, I just can't help assume that the package that was shipped was treated harshly in some way and that may be why the shield is not operating properly as well.

     

    Nonetheless, I will run the sketch/tests today and publish the results here.  Did you see my sketch on Github?  I wrote one a few days ago (which is basically the same as yours) except I added a lot of Serial Print comments to annotate the program specifically for debugging.  I will run both and try to make a video and print the results.  I will also modify the sketch to run 1 motor so that I can use a couple of other different motors with different specifications.

     

    Thanks so much again for the support from both you and Manuel.  Hope your Holiday was magnificent!

     

    I'm looking forward to receiving the new replacement from Randall.

     

    Best regards,

    Tom