SLLSFQ3 January   2023 MCT8329A

PRODUCTION DATA  

  1. 1 Features
  2. 2 Applications
  3. 3 Description
  4. 4 Revision History
  5. 5 Pin Configuration and Functions
  6. 6 Specifications
    1. 6.1 Absolute Maximum Ratings
    2. 6.2 ESD Ratings Comm
    3. 6.3 Recommended Operating Conditions
    4. 6.4 Thermal Information 1pkg
    5. 6.5 Electrical Characteristics
    6. 6.6 Characteristics of the SDA and SCL bus for Standard and Fast mode
    7. 6.7 Typical Characteristics
  7. 7 Detailed Description
    1. 7.1 Overview
    2. 7.2 Functional Block Diagram
    3. 7.3 Feature Description
      1. 7.3.1  Three Phase BLDC Gate Drivers
      2. 7.3.2  Gate Drive Architecture
        1. 7.3.2.1 Dead time and Cross Conduction Prevention
      3. 7.3.3  AVDD Linear Voltage Regulator
      4. 7.3.4  DVDD Voltage Regulator
        1. 7.3.4.1 AVDD Powered VREG
        2. 7.3.4.2 External Supply for VREG
        3. 7.3.4.3 External MOSFET for VREG Supply
      5. 7.3.5  Low-Side Current Sense Amplifier
      6. 7.3.6  Device Interface Modes
        1. 7.3.6.1 Interface - Control and Monitoring
        2. 7.3.6.2 I2C Interface
      7. 7.3.7  Motor Control Input Options
        1. 7.3.7.1 Analog-Mode Motor Control
        2. 7.3.7.2 PWM-Mode Motor Control
        3. 7.3.7.3 Frequency-Mode Motor Control
        4. 7.3.7.4 I2C based Motor Control
        5. 7.3.7.5 Input Control Signal Profiles
          1. 7.3.7.5.1 Linear Control Profiles
          2. 7.3.7.5.2 Staircase Control Profiles
          3. 7.3.7.5.3 Forward-Reverse Profiles
        6. 7.3.7.6 Control Input Transfer Function without Profiler
      8. 7.3.8  Starting the Motor Under Different Initial Conditions
        1. 7.3.8.1 Case 1 – Motor is Stationary
        2. 7.3.8.2 Case 2 – Motor is Spinning in the Forward Direction
        3. 7.3.8.3 Case 3 – Motor is Spinning in the Reverse Direction
      9. 7.3.9  Motor Start Sequence (MSS)
        1. 7.3.9.1 Initial Speed Detect (ISD)
        2. 7.3.9.2 Motor Resynchronization
        3. 7.3.9.3 Reverse Drive
        4. 7.3.9.4 Motor Start-up
          1. 7.3.9.4.1 Align
          2. 7.3.9.4.2 Double Align
          3. 7.3.9.4.3 Initial Position Detection (IPD)
            1. 7.3.9.4.3.1 IPD Operation
            2. 7.3.9.4.3.2 IPD Release
            3. 7.3.9.4.3.3 IPD Advance Angle
          4. 7.3.9.4.4 Slow First Cycle Startup
          5. 7.3.9.4.5 Open loop
          6. 7.3.9.4.6 Transition from Open to Closed Loop
      10. 7.3.10 Closed Loop Operation
        1. 7.3.10.1 120o Commutation
          1. 7.3.10.1.1 High-Side Modulation
          2. 7.3.10.1.2 Low-Side Modulation
          3. 7.3.10.1.3 Mixed Modulation
        2. 7.3.10.2 Variable Commutation
        3. 7.3.10.3 Lead Angle Control
        4. 7.3.10.4 Closed loop accelerate
      11. 7.3.11 Speed Loop
      12. 7.3.12 Power Loop
      13. 7.3.13 Anti-Voltage Surge (AVS)
      14. 7.3.14 Output PWM Switching Frequency
      15. 7.3.15 Fast Start-up (< 50 ms)
        1. 7.3.15.1 BEMF Threshold
        2. 7.3.15.2 Dynamic Degauss
      16. 7.3.16 Fast Deceleration
      17. 7.3.17 Dynamic Voltage Scaling
      18. 7.3.18 Motor Stop Options
        1. 7.3.18.1 Coast (Hi-Z) Mode
        2. 7.3.18.2 Recirculation Mode
        3. 7.3.18.3 Low-Side Braking
        4. 7.3.18.4 High-Side Braking
        5. 7.3.18.5 Active Spin-Down
      19. 7.3.19 FG Configuration
        1. 7.3.19.1 FG Output Frequency
        2. 7.3.19.2 FG in Open-Loop
        3. 7.3.19.3 FG During Motor Stop
        4. 7.3.19.4 FG Behaviour During Fault
      20. 7.3.20 Protections
        1. 7.3.20.1  PVDD Supply Undervoltage Lockout (PVDD_UV)
        2. 7.3.20.2  AVDD Power on Reset (AVDD_POR)
        3. 7.3.20.3  GVDD Undervoltage Lockout (GVDD_UV)
        4. 7.3.20.4  BST Undervoltage Lockout (BST_UV)
        5. 7.3.20.5  MOSFET VDS Overcurrent Protection (VDS_OCP)
        6. 7.3.20.6  VSENSE Overcurrent Protection (SEN_OCP)
        7. 7.3.20.7  Thermal Shutdown (OTSD)
        8. 7.3.20.8  Cycle-by-Cycle (CBC) Current Limit (CBC_ILIMIT)
          1. 7.3.20.8.1 CBC_ILIMIT Automatic Recovery next PWM Cycle (CBC_ILIMIT_MODE = 000xb)
          2. 7.3.20.8.2 CBC_ILIMIT Automatic Recovery Threshold Based (CBC_ILIMIT_MODE = 001xb)
          3. 7.3.20.8.3 CBC_ILIMIT Automatic Recovery after 'n' PWM Cycles (CBC_ILIMIT_MODE = 010xb)
          4. 7.3.20.8.4 CBC_ILIMIT Report Only (CBC_ILIMIT_MODE = 0110b)
          5. 7.3.20.8.5 CBC_ILIMIT Disabled (CBC_ILIMIT_MODE = 0111b or 1xxxb)
        9. 7.3.20.9  Lock Detection Current Limit (LOCK_ILIMIT)
          1. 7.3.20.9.1 LOCK_ILIMIT Latched Shutdown (LOCK_ILIMIT_MODE = 00xxb)
          2. 7.3.20.9.2 LOCK_ILIMIT Automatic Recovery (LOCK_ILIMIT_MODE = 01xxb)
          3. 7.3.20.9.3 LOCK_ILIMIT Report Only (LOCK_ILIMIT_MODE = 1000b)
          4. 7.3.20.9.4 LOCK_ILIMIT Disabled (LOCK_ILIMIT_MODE = 1xx1b)
        10. 7.3.20.10 Motor Lock (MTR_LCK)
          1. 7.3.20.10.1 MTR_LCK Latched Shutdown (MTR_LCK_MODE = 00xxb)
          2. 7.3.20.10.2 MTR_LCK Automatic Recovery (MTR_LCK_MODE= 01xxb)
          3. 7.3.20.10.3 MTR_LCK Report Only (MTR_LCK_MODE = 1000b)
          4. 7.3.20.10.4 MTR_LCK Disabled (MTR_LCK_MODE = 1xx1b)
        11. 7.3.20.11 Motor Lock Detection
          1. 7.3.20.11.1 Lock 1: Abnormal Speed (ABN_SPEED)
          2. 7.3.20.11.2 Lock 2: Loss of Sync (LOSS_OF_SYNC)
          3. 7.3.20.11.3 Lock3: No-Motor Fault (NO_MTR)
        12. 7.3.20.12 IPD Faults
    4. 7.4 Device Functional Modes
      1. 7.4.1 Functional Modes
        1. 7.4.1.1 Sleep Mode
        2. 7.4.1.2 Standby Mode
        3. 7.4.1.3 Fault Reset (CLR_FLT)
    5. 7.5 External Interface
      1. 7.5.1 DRVOFF - Gate Driver Shutdown Functionality
      2. 7.5.2 DAC outputs
      3. 7.5.3 Current Sense Amplifier Output
      4. 7.5.4 Oscillator Source
        1. 7.5.4.1 External Clock Source
    6. 7.6 EEPROM access and I2C interface
      1. 7.6.1 EEPROM Access
        1. 7.6.1.1 EEPROM Write
        2. 7.6.1.2 EEPROM Read
      2. 7.6.2 I2C Serial Interface
        1. 7.6.2.1 I2C Data Word
        2. 7.6.2.2 I2C Write Operation
        3. 7.6.2.3 I2C Read Operation
        4. 7.6.2.4 Examples of I2C Communication Protocol Packets
        5. 7.6.2.5 Internal Buffers
        6. 7.6.2.6 CRC Byte Calculation
    7. 7.7 EEPROM (Non-Volatile) Register Map
      1. 7.7.1 Algorithm_Configuration Registers
      2. 7.7.2 Fault_Configuration Registers
      3. 7.7.3 Hardware_Configuration Registers
      4. 7.7.4 Gate_Driver_Configuration Registers
    8. 7.8 RAM (Volatile) Register Map
      1. 7.8.1 Fault_Status Registers
      2. 7.8.2 System_Status Registers
      3. 7.8.3 Algo_Control Registers
      4. 7.8.4 Device_Control Registers
      5. 7.8.5 Algorithm_Variables Registers
  8. 8 Application and Implementation
    1. 8.1 Application Information
    2. 8.2 Typical Applications
      1.      Detailed Design Procedure
      2.      Bootstrap Capacitor and GVDD Capacitor Selection
      3. 8.2.1 Selection of External MOSFET for VREG Power Supply
      4.      Gate Drive Current
      5.      Gate Resistor Selection
      6.      System Considerations in High Power Designs
      7.      Capacitor Voltage Ratings
      8.      External Power Stage Components
      9. 8.2.2 Application curves
        1. 8.2.2.1 Motor startup
        2. 8.2.2.2 120o and variable commutation
        3. 8.2.2.3 Faster startup time
        4. 8.2.2.4 Setting the BEMF threshold
        5. 8.2.2.5 Maximum speed
        6. 8.2.2.6 Faster deceleration
  9. 9 Power Supply Recommendations
    1. 9.1 Bulk Capacitance
  10. 10Layout
    1. 10.1 Layout Guidelines
    2. 10.2 Layout Example
    3. 10.3 Thermal Considerations
      1. 10.3.1 Power Dissipation
  11. 11Device and Documentation Support
    1. 11.1 Documentation Support
      1. 11.1.1 Related Documentation
    2. 11.2 Support Resources
    3. 11.3 Trademarks
    4. 11.4 Electrostatic Discharge Caution
    5. 11.5 Glossary
  12. 12Mechanical, Packaging, and Orderable Information

Package Options

Mechanical Data (Package|Pins)
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Orderable Information

7.1 Overview

The MCT8329A provides a code-free sensorless trapezoidal control solution with integrated three phase gate driver for applications requiring high speed operation (up to 3 kHz electrical speed) or very fast startup time (< 50ms) for brushless-DC motors.

The devices provide three half-bridge gate drivers, each capable of driving high-side and low-side N-channel power MOSFETs. Motor current is sensed using an integrated current sensing amplifier with the need of an external low side sense resistor. The device integrates an LDO that generate the necessary voltage rails for the device and can be used to power external circuits.

Sensorless trapezoidal control is highly configurable through register settings ranging from motor start-up behavior to closed loop operation. Register settings can be stored in non-volatile EEPROM (MCT8329A1I), which allows the device to operate stand-alone once it has been configured. MCT8329A1I allows for a high level of monitoring; any variable in the algorithm can be displayed and observed as an analog output through a 12-bit DAC. This feature provides an effective method to tune speed loops as well as motor acceleration. The device receives a speed command through a PWM input, analog voltage, frequency input or I2C command.

In-built protection features include power-supply undervoltage lockout (PVDD_UVLO), regulator undervoltage lockout (GVDD_UV), bootstrap voltage undervoltage lockout (BST_UV), VDS overcurrent protection (OCP), Sense resistor overcurrent protection (SEN_OCP), motor lock detection and overtemperature shutdown (OTSD). Fault events are indicated by the nFAULT pin with detailed fault information available in the status registers.

A standard I2C provides a simple method for configuring the various device settings and reading fault diagnostic information through an external controller.

The MCT8329A device is available in a 0.4-mm pin pitch, VQFN surface-mount package. The VQFN package size is 5 mm × 4 mm.