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Page 2: Table Of Contents
ADC LTC2308 ..........................17 3.3.4 User Buzzer and LED ........................19 3.3.5 IR Receiver ............................20 3.3.6 TMD Header ............................21 Chapter 4 Appendix ......................... 23 4.1 Revision History ............................23 4.2 Copyright Statement ..........................23 A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016... -
Page 3: Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction A-Cute Car is a high performance self-propelled robotic line tracking vehicle, and has a complete input / output interface. It is easy to understand, simple to program, users can learn to operate it quickly. It uses four AA size batteries pack and runs on a stand-alone power system. The motor operates in a voltage range between 3.6V ~ 6.8V. -
Page 4: Getting Help
Figure 1-1 Contents of A-Cute Car Kit 1.2 Getting Help Here is information of how to get help if you encounter any problem: Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (GMT +8) Telephone: +886-3-550-8800 Email: support@terasic.com A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual... -
Page 5: Architecture Of A-Cute
Seven sensor array to follow the line ADC chip to digitized the input power and line sensors Line following Remote Control by Bluetooth Remote Control by IR Expansion Headers A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016... -
Page 6: Component And Layout
2.2 Component and Layout The top view of A-Cute is shown in the picture below Figure 2-1. Figure 2-1 A-Cute Car Top View A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016... - Page 7 The bottom view of A-Cute is shown in Figure 2-2. Figure 2-2 A-Cute Car Bottom View A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016...
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Page 8: How To Make Your Car Work
2.3 How to make your car work Battery Selection and Installation A-Cute car package requires 4 AA batteries. You can choose carbon-zinc batteries, alkaline batteries or NiMH batteries. We recommend using rechargeable NiMH batteries. Carbon-zinc / alkaline batteries are rated voltage of 1.5V, and NiMH batteries rated voltage of 1.2V. - Page 9 2.4 Use the DC adapter power The A-Cute Car Robot Kit has provided a 5V power supply for development users. Users can use the DC Power cable in lieu of the battery by connecting the 5V power supply to the A- Cute Car Robot Kit.
- Page 10 3. Insert the other end of the DC Power cable connector into the J1 connector (battery cable) on the SCD. The completed connection is shown in Figure 2-5. Figure 2-5 Complete connection diagram A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016...
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Page 11: Hardware Of A-Cute
Altera Cyclone IV FPGA chip as the main control board. It is responsible for the entire A- Cute car control system. The second is the A-Cute driver board. It was designed and developed by Terasic SCD (Smart Car Daughter) Card. It is responsible for converting the battery power and driving the motor. -
Page 12: De0-Nano Cyclone Iv Fpga Board
3.2 DE0-Nano Cyclone IV FPGA Board The DE0-Nano Development Board is an A-Cute Car system controller. It uses the NIOS II Processer as a control system. It has a variety of appropriate peripheral IP’s that are constructed by a self- propelled complete tracking control system. - Page 13 Figure 3-2 DE0-Nano Board Basic structure A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016...
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Page 14: Scd(Smart Car Daughter) Card
Smart Car Daughter was developed for the two wheels of the car, the infrared sensing, and motor drive control board. It can be connected to any GPIO Port on the Terasic board. This allows users to easily control the DC Motor, achieving automatic control purposes. The main functions of the board: 1. -
Page 15: Power System
Table 3-1 Pin Assignment of 3.3V Power Control GPIO FPGA Pin No. SCD Signal Name Description I/O Standard Pin No. on GPIO 0 VCC3P3_PWRON_n 40 PIN_B12 SCD 3.3V Power Control signal. Low Active. OUT, 3.3V A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016... -
Page 16: Motor Driver
Connections between the GPIO and Motor Driver. Table 3-2 lists the pin assignment of the Motor Driver interface connected to the DE0-Nano GPIO 0. Figure 3-5 Connections between the GPIO and Motor Driver A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016... - Page 17 H-Bridge control. Table 3-3 H-Bridge Control Signal MTRR_P MTRR_N MTRR_OUT_Ap MTRR_OUT_An Function (DC Motor) MTRL_P MTRL_N MTRL_OUT_Bp MTRL_OUT_Bn Coast (fast decay) Reverse Forward Brake (slow decay) A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016...
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Page 18: Adc Ltc2308
ADC_IN7 More information about the A/D converter chip is available in its datasheet. It can be found on manufacturer’s website http://www.linear.com/product/LTC2308, or in the directory \Datasheet\ADC on the SCD System CD. A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016... - Page 19 ADC_SDO PIN_B6 Left Motor Positive signal. IN, 3.3V ADC_SDI PIN_A6 Left Motor Negative signal. OUT, 3.3V IR LED Power Control signal. IR_LED_ON PIN_D12 OUT, 3.3V Logic high to turn on IR LED power. A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016...
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Page 20: User Buzzer And Led
FPGA Pin No. SCD Signal Name Description I/O Standard Pin No. on GPIO 0 Buzzer PIN_D6 Buzzer wave signal OUT, 3.3V LED_LEFT PIN_A7 Left LED signal. OUT, 3.3V LED_RIGHT PIN_C6 Right LED signal. OUT, 3.3V A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016... -
Page 21: Ir Receiver
Figure 3-8 Connection between the GPIO and IR receiver module Table 3-6 Pin assignment of IR Receiver Module GPIO FPGA Pin No. SCD Signal Name Description I/O Standard Pin No. on GPIO 0 IR_RXD PIN_B7 IR Receiver signal. IN, 3.3V A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016... -
Page 22: Tmd Header
3.3.6 TMD Header The board has one 2x6 TMD (Terasic Mini Digital) expansion header. The TMD header has 8 digital GPIO user pins connected to the 2x20 GPIO header, two 3.3V power pins and two ground pins. There are two Transient Voltage Suppressor diode arrays used to implement ESD protection for 8 GPIO user pins. - Page 23 Figure 3-9 Connections between the 2x6 TMD header and 2x20 GPIO header A-Cute www.terasic.com User Manual September 12, 2016...
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Page 24: Chapter 4 Appendix
V1.0 Initial Version (Preliminary) V1.1 Minor corrections: fixing typos. Copyright Statement Copyright © 2016 Terasic Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. We will continue to provide interesting examples and labs on our A-Cute webpage. Please visit Car.terasic.com for more information. A-Cute www.terasic.com... - Page 25 Mouser Electronics Authorized Distributor Click to View Pricing, Inventory, Delivery & Lifecycle Information: Terasic P0467...
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