JAJU857 December 2022
The saturation detection circuit is made of the low-side current sense resistor (R7), current sense amplifier INA293, and comparator TLV7011. The comparator outputs high when the fluxgate sensor coil saturation is reached.
This circuit is used to determine when the fluxgate sensor has reached saturation.
VSENSE is read from the low-side shunt resistor of the DRV8220. VSENSE gives the current through the fluxgate sensor coil. This signal is gained by current sense amplifier INA293, with a fixed gain of 20 V/V. The gained signal is compared to a reference voltage VREF of 500 mV which is sourced from a resistor divider. When the current sense signal passes the VREF voltage, the core has saturated and the DRV8220 must swap output directions. The output of comparator TLV7011 feeds into a DFF which is explained more in the H-Bridge Controlled by DFF section.