Click on the advert above to visit the company web site

Product category: Industrial Drives/Controls
News Release from: Solid State Supplies | Subject: Microcontrollers
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 13 March 2001

Integrated microcontroller for motor
control

Request your FREE weekly copy of the Engineeringtalk email newsletter. News about Industrial Drives/Controls and more every issue. Click here for details.

With 8MIPS of processing power at 16MHz, an M16C microcontroller was used by Solid State Supplies to demonstrate 3 phase motor control at the Power Electronics Exhibition.

With 8MIPS of processing power at 16MHz, an M16C microcontroller was used by Solid State Supplies to demonstrate 3 phase motor control at the Power Electronics Exhibition The M16C62A family of microcontrollers is ideal for use in a wide range of motor driven industrial applications such as air conditioning, door openers, fans and pumps

Featuring a 10bit 8 channel ADC, 8bit, 2 channel DAC and on-chip timer counters to drive 3 phase PWM outputs with dead time generation, the M16C62A provides the user with the capability of setting the device to defined PWM dead time when generating the necessary outputs for the motor1s 3 phases.

Users will appreciate this facility considering that a short dead time can cause a motor power stage to be destroyed, and a long dead time can cause the motor to stall under load.

The M16C62A has controllable dead time from 30ms down to 1ms.

In situations where higher performance is required, the M16C/80 version offers 15MIPS of processing power at 20MHz.

Solid State Supplies: contact details and other news
Email this article to a colleague
Register for the free Engineeringtalk email newsletter
Engineeringtalk Home Page

Search the Pro-Talk network of sites