Trinamic TMC8462-EVAL Manual

Trinamic TMC8462-EVAL Manual

Evaluation board for trinamic’s ethercat slave controller

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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.
Applications
• Laboratory Automation
• Drives
Simpli ed Block Diagram
©2018 TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany
Terms of delivery and rights to technical change reserved.
Download newest version at:
www.trinamic.com
Read entire documentation.
• Semiconductor Handling
• Robotics
EVALUATION BOARD
Features
• TMC8462-BA EtherCAT Slave Con-
troller
• Board supply voltage: 5V to 35V
• Dual RJ45 TPC connector
• SPI PDI interface
• SPI interface for TRINAMIC's Multi-
Function and Control IO Block (MFC IO)
• Access to all chip functions via pin
headers and connectors
• Interface to TRINAMIC's evaluation
board concept
• CAD design les available for down-
load on
www.trinamic.com
• Factory Automation
• Connected Sensors

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  • Page 1 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 •...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    ..........13 ©2018 TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Terms of delivery and rights to technical change reserved.
  • Page 3: Getting Started

    The latest rmware is always available online at https://www.trinamic.com/support/eval-kits/details/landungsbruecke/ https://www.trinamic.com/support/eval-kits/details/startrampe/ ©2018 TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Terms of delivery and rights to technical change reserved. Download newest version at...
  • Page 4 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.
  • Page 5: Evaluation Board Sections And Components

    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.
  • Page 6: Evaluation Board Connectors

    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...
  • Page 7 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.
  • Page 8: Evaluation Board Jumper Settings

    VOUT = 5V. The second option ("VAR") al- lows directly controlling VOUT with the potentiometer R23. ©2018 TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Terms of delivery and rights to technical change reserved. Download newest version at...
  • Page 9 23 of the 44-pin connector J2, for example by a connected TRINAMIC Landungsbruecke controller board. Table 8: Board jumper options and defaults ©2018 TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Terms of delivery and rights to technical change reserved. Download newest version at...
  • Page 10: Evaluation Board Design Files

    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: •...
  • Page 11 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 a c a c a c 1 c 1 c 1 c ©2018 TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Terms of delivery and rights to technical change reserved.
  • Page 12 12 / 13 </ ImageData16x14 > </ Device > </ Devices > </ Descriptions > </ EtherCATInfo > ©2018 TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Terms of delivery and rights to technical change reserved. Download newest version at www.trinamic.com...
  • Page 13: Revision History

    5 Revision History 5.1 Document Revision Version Date Author Description 1.00 2018-02-26 Initial release. Table 9: Document Revision ©2018 TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany Terms of delivery and rights to technical change reserved. Download newest version at www.trinamic.com...

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