Motor Control Reference Design for 24V BLDC/PMSM FOC Automotive Systems
The S32K142-MC24 from NXP Semiconductors is a reference design board engineered for general purpose Brushless DC (BLDC)/ Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) Field-Oriented Control (FOC) automotive motor control up to 800W output under 24V automotive applications.
This reference design delivers a motor control hardware solution to support 24V automotive systems which can be used for multiple applications, such as a cooling fan, oil pump, water pump and blower.
Based on the 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M S32K14 microcontroller and the GD3000 Pre-Driver, the S32K142-MC24 is an out-of-the-box and easy-to-use 24V general purpose motor control hardware reference design board with rich hardware and software enablement that can be used as a quick prototype verification board.
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Key features of this hardware include:
- Supports a 24V power supply system with up to 800W automotive BLDC/PMSM motor control system
- Is able to drive multiple types of automotive motors and tune those motors directly
- Contains a PMSM FOC based on NXP S32K142+GD3000+CAN PHY+LIN PHY
- Dual shunt and triple shunt current sample solution are implemented
- Supports multiple diagnose and protection covering UV, OV, OT, OC, short, stall detection, etc.
- Supports speed/control commands from LIN/CAN/PWM
Software Architecture Overview
The motor control software package is developed on NXP's S32K1xx SDK RTM3.0.0 and AMMCLIB 1.1.15. In order to accelerate user application software development, it offers a BSP layer to provide API of all onboard modules. In the application layer, apart from the motor control, users can add their own application software and communication management stack.
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The software package of the S32K142-MC24 RDB is available to enable users to evaluate the S32K142 based motor control performance out-of-box and build their own motor control product prototype as a general motor control hardware platform.
The software package has the following features:
- Out-of-box motor control and tuning via FreeMASTER MCAT
- Support sensorless FOC PMSM/BLDC motor control
- Support hall sensor based FOC PMSM/ BLDC motor control
- Support rich motor control diagnosis and protection: OV, UV, OC, OT, etc.
- Implement advanced motor control algorithm — field weakening (FW) and stall detection
- Support dual-shunt and tri-shunt phase current sample
- Integrate BSP layer API of CAN, LIN and PWM communication for motor control
- Provide S32DS IDE project and makefile project to support multi-toolchain — GHS, IAR and GCC and multi-debugger — Lauterbach, U-Multilink and J-LINK debugger
