TIDUF60 December 2023
The single-shunt current-sensing technique measures the DC-link bus current, with knowledge of the power FET switching states and reconstructs the three-phase current of the motor. The detailed description of the single shunt technique is described in the Sensorless-FOC for PMSM With Single DC-Link Shunt application note.
On this reference board, implement the single-shunt current-sensing technique by removing two shunts and shorting the connection of the U, V, W ground of the power module as shown in Figure 2-32.
Figure 2-33 shows the single-shunt current-sensing circuit for the MSPM0G1507 daughterboard.
By default, the board has three shunt resistors, Figure 2-34 shows the layout of the shunt resistors. To run with a single-shunt resistor, remove R81 and R82 while keeping R80, solder NU, NV and NW (pin 2 of R80, R81, and R82) together, then all three phase currents flow through only R80.
The DC-Link current is a unidirectional signal, so the DC current offset can be set to a minimum or maximum value to improve the ADC sampling range for the DC-Link current as Figure 2-35 shows. On the TMS320F2800137 daughterboard, change R7 from 10 kΩ to 1 kΩ/1% resistor for the reference voltage to have 0.3-V offset for DC current sensing.
The transfer function of this current sampling circuit and the calculation for single shunt are the same as the three shunts.
For the MSPM0 daughterboard, offset for single-shunt current sensing can also be reduced to 0.3 V by reducing R31 from 20 kΩ to 2 kΩ, as shown in Figure 2-33.