JAJSCW7D January 2016 – November 2018 DRV8884
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. After the current hits the current chopping threshold, the bridge enters a decay mode for a fixed 20-μs period of time to decrease the current. After the off time expires, the bridge is re-enabled, starting another PWM cycle.
The PWM chopping current is set by a comparator which looks at the voltage across current sense FETs in parallel with the low-side drivers. The current sense FETs are biased with a reference current that is the output of a current-mode sine-weighted DAC whose full-scale reference current is set by the current through the RREF pin. An external resistor is placed from the RREF pin to GND in order to set the reference current. In addition, the TRQ pin can further scale the reference current.
The chopping current is calculated as shown in Equation 1.
Example: If a 30-kΩ resistor is connected to the RREF pin, the chopping current will be 1 A (TRQ at 100%).
The TRQ pin is the input to a DAC used to scale the output current. The current scalar value for different inputs is shown in Table 5.
TRQ | CURRENT SCALAR (TRQ) |
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0 | 100% |
Z | 75% |
1 | 50% |