Motor Control Designs Made Easy with Integrated C2000 32-bit Piccolo F2805x Microcontrollers
Taking the complexity out of motor control designs, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) introduces its latest motor control solution -- new highly integrated C2000™ Piccolo™ F2805x microcontrollers, motor control software, application-specific development tools and extensive support. These Piccolo microcontrollers are optimized for a variety of three-phase inverter motor control applications to enhance power efficiency and control performance of electric pumps, fans, traction drives, textile machines and more.
The new Piccolo F2805x microcontrollers pack a number of analog components on chip to increase system efficiency and decrease the number of discrete parts. Piccolo F2805x microcontrollers offer the intelligence and performance of the TMS320C28x™ digital signal processing (DSP) core with a C-programmable Control Law Accelerator (CLA) co-processor on-chip. The CLA is a 32-bit floating-point math accelerator, designed to work independently of the CPU core to offload time-sensitive control algorithms or DSP processing, freeing the CPU to handle motion profiles, system management, communications and safety checking, resulting in up to a 5x increase in performance for closed loop applications.
Designers can begin development easily with TI's motor control development kits with free open source motor control software libraries and examples. These libraries and example projects are available for both the C28x and CLA cores of the Piccolo F2805x microcontrollers and include functions covering nearly all essential motor control mathematical functions, as well as device-specific peripheral configurations. Designed with simplicity in mind, the motor control libraries are completely modular and ideal for all stages of development, enabling designers to connect together functional software code blocks, similar to connecting blocks of a block diagram. After connecting the software blocks of the motor control libraries, designers can simply tune their parameters, compile the code and flash into the Piccolo F2805x microcontroller.
C2000 Piccolo-based modular development tools enable experimentation with various C2000 microcontrollers to fit price performance and peripheral feature-set requirements. These tools include: C2000 LaunchPad, controlCARD, controlSTICK and C2000 experimenter kits. All of these tools include TI's Code Composer Studio v5 integrated development environment and C2000 controlSUITE™ software, providing easy-to-use open source demonstration GUIs, software examples and documentation for motor control development. Motor control training is available online, and 24/7 support can be found on TI's E2E Community.
Piccolo F2805x microcontrollers are available for order now starting at $3.25 USD per 1ku. A variety of C2000, motor control and Piccolo tools are available at different price points.
