SLVSD19A June 2015 – July 2015 DRV8881
PRODUCTION DATA.
The current through the motor windings is regulated by an adjustable fixed-off-time PWM current regulation circuit. When an H-bridge is enabled, current rises through the winding at a rate dependent on the DC voltage, inductance of the winding, and the magnitude of the back EMF present. Once the current hits the current chopping threshold, the bridge enters a decay mode for a fixed period of time to decrease the current, which is configurable between 10 and 30 µs through the tri-level input TOFF. After the off time expires, the bridge is re-enabled, starting another PWM cycle.
TOFF | OFF-TIME tOFF |
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0 | 20 µs |
1 | 30 µs |
Z | 10 µs |
The PWM chopping current is set by a comparator which compares the voltage across a current sense resistor connected to the xISEN pin with a reference voltage. To generate the reference voltage for the current chopping comparator, the xVREF input is attenuated by a factor of Av. In addition, the TRQx pins further scale the reference.
The chopping current is calculated as follows:
TRQ is a DAC used to scale the output current. The current scalar value for different inputs is shown in Table 4.
TRQ1 | TRQ0 | CURRENT SCALAR (TRQ) | EFFECTIVE ATTENUATION |
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1 | 1 | 25% | 26.4 V/V |
1 | 0 | 50% | 13.2 V/V |
0 | 1 | 75% | 8.8 V/V |
0 | 0 | 100% | 6.6 V/V |