Figure 18. Dc Motor Driving Gui; Figure 19. Power Dissipation And Thermal Analysis - ST EVALCOMMBOARD Manual

UM0240 Software
The control panel allows the user to set the current, as a percentage of the maximum value
determined by the hardware, for each portion of the movement and the holding time. When
motor settings have been defined one can start and stop the motor by simply clicking on the
RUN and STOP.
DC motors are supported too.

Figure 18. DC motor driving GUI

In addition to driving the motors, a program to assist in the thermal evaluation of the
application is present.

Figure 19. Power dissipation and thermal analysis

The software is set up to take the operating conditions from the application including the
power supply voltage, motor characteristics and information about the movement profile and
use this to calculate the dissipation and operating junction temperature of the device.
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