Product category:
Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Allegro MicroSystems Europe | Subject: Motor driver kit
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 12 May 2000
Motor driver kit with stepper control
ICs
Allegro MicroSystems has introduced a motor driver kit to aid designers in developing microcontroller-based stepper-motor control systems.
Allegro MicroSystems has introduced a motor driver kit to aid designers in developing microcontroller-based stepper-motor control systems The new kit contains Allegro's recently introduced A4255 8-bit microcontroller, two microstepping control ICs (Allegro A3955 or A3957) and the ancillary interface and passive components, all mounted on a high-density surface-mount board
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The A4255 microcontroller provides all the logic input and output signals needed to operate the microstepping power ICs.
It relieves designers of the necessity to develop both the hardware and software to implement complex motion control systems, and is expected to be of special interest for small-to-modest volume applications, where this 'turn-key' approach can save considerable development time and cost.
The microcontroller provides the 3-bit (for the A3955) or 4-bit (for the A3957) control signals which determine the pulse-width modulated output currents for driving the stepper-motor windings.
The driver ICs are rated at up to 50 V and +/-1.5 A.
The new package is one of a number of product evaluation kits and demonstration boards being introduced by Allegro MicroSystems for its range of motor driver ICs.
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