Evaluation board for miniaturized servo controller (16 pages)
Summary of Contents for Trinamic TMC8462-EVAL
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Evaluation Board for TRINAMIC’s EtherCAT Slave Controller TMC8462-EVAL Document Revision V1.00 • 2018-May -28 The TMC8462-EVAL is designed for evaluating all features of the TMC8462-BA EtherCAT Slave Con- troller. It can be used as bus interface module for EtherCAT applications. Features •...
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5. The TMCL-IDE includes a dialogue for diagnostic tasks for the controller board. Further, the dialogue provides an overview of the connected evaluation board (controller and/or driver). The TMC8462-EVAL should appear under "controller" by automatic detection. In case it does not appear, the evaluation board can also be selected manually.
Figure 4: Top view of TMC8462-EVAL 2 Evaluation Board Sections and Components Figure top view of the TMC8462-EVAL shows the main connectors (green), signal pin headers (light blue), and jumper options (red). The on-chip reset circuit takes care for proper power-on reset.
Please check the online available design les and schematic data for the connectors’ signal connections and pinning. 2.2 Evaluation Board Pin Headers There are 5 pin header groups on the TMC8462-EVAL– J4 to J8. Pin Header ID Description General control signals...
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The 8 high-voltage MFC IOs are divided into three groups where each group has its own supply voltage. On the TMC8462-EVAL VIO1 and VIO2 are the same and directly driven by VOUT . VIO2 can be selected using The actual function of these 8 MFC IOs is de ned by the con guration of the MFC IO block’s crossbar matrix and functional sub-blocks.
If les are missing on the website or something is wrong please send us a note. 4 Example XML File The following example XML le is used as default con guration for the TMC8462-EVAL. This XML le is available for download from the evaluation board’s webpage. Besides the standard ESI/XML con guration it includes the following blocks: •...
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