JAJU858 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. The circuit shown in Figure 2-8 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 up 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 switch the output directions. The output of comparator TLV7011 feeds into a DFF which is explained more in the H-Bridge Controlled by DFF section.