SLVSHN2 July 2024 DRV8962-Q1
PRODUCTION DATA
The DRV8962-Q1 can also be used to drive a three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motor. The DRV8962-Q1 supports independent control of three phases required to drive the BLDC motor. One of the four half-bridges of the DRV8962-Q1 can be disabled while driving a BLDC motor, by connecting the corresponding EN pin to ground. Shows a schematic of the DRV8962-Q1 driving a BLDC motor.
The three half-bridges required to drive a BLDC motor can be controlled by six inputs - EN1, EN2, EN3 and IN1, IN2, IN3.
When EN1 is low, OUT1 becomes high-impedance, allowing current to flow through the internal body diodes of the high-side and low-side FETs.
When EN1 is high and IN1 is low, OUT1 is driven low with its low-side FET enabled.
When EN1 is high and IN1 is high, OUT1 is driven high with its high-side FET enabled.
Likewise is true for OUT2 and OUT3.
EN4 can be grounded to permanently disable OUT4.
A minimum of 30 nH to 100 nH inductance or a ferrite bead has to be connected after the output pins. This will help to prevent any shoot through due to mismatch between channels (for example, process variation, unsymmetrical PCB layout, etc).
The IPROPI pins output a current proportional to the current flowing through the high-side FET of each half-bridge. The IPROPI output accuracy at maximum rated current is ± 3.5 %.
IPROPI = IHS x AIPROPI
Each IPROPI pin should be connected to an external resistor (RIPROPI) to ground in order to generate a proportional voltage (VIPROPI) on the IPROPI pin. This allows for the load current to be measured as the voltage drop across the RIPROPI resistor with a standard analog to digital converter (ADC).
VIPROPI = IPROPI x RIPROPI
If higher accuracy of current sensing is required, external sense resistors can be placed between the PGND pins and system ground. The voltage drop across the external sense resistor should not exceed 300 mV.