TIDA-01250

Smart Solenoid Driver with Predictive Maintenance Reference Design

TIDA-01250

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Overview

This reference design is a solenoid driver that implements additional monitoring control as well as diagnostic features. These features enable for example: lose spring detection, valve aging recognition and dynamic control of solenoid current. This predictive maintenance feature-set helps to decrease or even eliminate factory downtime. Moreover, the control of the solenoid current supports energy saving and increased valve lifetime. The integrated IO-Link interface provides the possibility of communication between Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and actuator to leverage the predictive maintenance feature-set. The switching of the solenoid is realized using the PWM output of the microcontroller (MCU) to drive the current of a FET, which then supplies the solenoid switching current. The current signature is sampled with the on-chip 12-bit ADC and stored in the on-chip FRAM. This reference design implements a moving average calculation and a calculation of extreme values of the current signature curve.

Features
  • Solenoid driver:  based on MSP430™ PWM output; configurable PWM output for different drive currents
  • Current signature captured by integrated 12-bit ADC
    • Current signature can be stored in MSP430 FRAM
    • Single processing functions implemented in firmware:
    • Moving average
    • Detection of local extreme values
  • Configuration through UART or IO-link
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Design files

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TIDUCO6.PDF (1515 K)

Reference design overview and verified performance test data

TIDRRT6.PDF (607 K)

Detailed schematic diagram for design layout and components

TIDRRT7.PDF (50 K)

Complete listing of design components, reference designators, and manufacturers/part numbers

TIDRRT8.PDF (145 K)

Detailed overview of design layout for component placement

TIDRRU0.ZIP (1192 K)

Files used for 3D models or 2D drawings of IC components

TIDCDN1.ZIP (613 K)

Design file that contains information on physical board layer of design PCB

TIDRRT9.PDF (727 K)

PCB layer plot file used for generating PCB design layout

Products

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IO-Link & digital I/Os

TIOL111IO-Link device transceiver with integrated surge protection

Data sheet: PDF | HTML
MSP430 microcontrollers

MSP430FR596916 MHz MCU with 64KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, AES, 12-bit ADC, comparator, DMA, UART/SPI/I2C, timer

Data sheet: PDF | HTML

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Software

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TIDCDN2 TIDA-01250

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* Design guide Smart Solenoid Driver With Predictive Maintenance Reference Design Jul. 17, 2017
Technical article Is your factory smarter than a fifth grader? PDF | HTML Sep. 28, 2017
More literature Liberate your solenoid or relay from the bonds of supply voltage Jul. 17, 2017
White paper Detection of Plunger Movement in DC Solenoids White Paper Jun. 12, 2015

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