SLVAES1A June   2020  – May 2022 DRV8300

 

  1.   Trademarks
  2. 1Motor Considerations and Why Brushless DC Motors?
  3. 2Motor Driver Architecture
    1. 2.1 Gate Driver vs Integrated FET Driver: Power, Voltage, and Current Requirements
    2. 2.2 Three Use Cases: Speed, Torque, or Position:
    3. 2.3 Control Methods: Trap, Sine, or FOC
      1. 2.3.1 Trapezoidal
      2. 2.3.2 Sinusoidal
      3. 2.3.3 Field-Oriented Control
    4. 2.4 Sensored Versus Sensorless
      1. 2.4.1 Sensored
      2. 2.4.2 Sensorless
    5. 2.5 Current Sense Amplifiers
    6. 2.6 Interface
    7. 2.7 Power Integration
    8. 2.8 100% Duty Cycle Support
  4. 3Texas Instruments' Brushless-DC Motor Drivers
    1. 3.1 Gate Drivers: DRV8x and DRV3x family
      1. 3.1.1 DRV8x Family
      2. 3.1.2 DRV3x Family
    2. 3.2 Integrated MOSFET: DRV831x Family
    3. 3.3 Control and Gate Driver: MCx Family
    4. 3.4 Full Integration: MCx831x and DRV10x Family
      1. 3.4.1 MCx831x Family
      2. 3.4.2 DRV10x family
  5. 4Conclusion
  6. 5Revision History

2 Motor Driver Architecture

The first step in selecting a BLDC driver is to determine what type of architecture is best suited for an application. Architectures range from integrated FET drivers for low- to mid-power applications up to gate drivers enabling multi-kW motor drive systems. In addition, TI’s BLDC portfolio offers integrated control drivers for both sensored and sensorless sinusoidal and trapezoidal control. Figure 2-1 illustrates the various motor driver architectures in TI’s BLDC portfolio such as gate drivers (Blue), integrated FET drivers (Blue + Purple, and sensored vs sensorless integrated control (Green + Blue or Green + Blue + Purple).

GUID-BFF68FAC-CD8C-443E-9C19-9333C81956EE-low.gifFigure 2-1 Motor Driver Architectures