JAJSNJ2 January 2022 DRV8251A
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Some applications require stall detection to notify the microcontroller of a locked rotor condition. A stall could be caused by one of two things: unintended mechanical blockage or the load reaching an end-stop in a constrained travel path. By using the IPROPI analog current sense feedback of the DRV8251A, the system can implement a simple stall detection scheme.
The principle of this stall detection scheme relies on the fact that motor current increases during stall conditions as shown in #T4697743-7. To implement stall detection, the microcontroller reads the voltage on the IPROPI pin using an ADC and compares it to a stall threshold set in firmware. Alternatively, a comparator peripheral may be used to set this threshold as well.