Motor-control kit helps reduce design complexity, development time and cost

Expanding support for its RX62T microcontroller (MCU) Group, Renesas Electronics America announced a new motor-control kit that features a single precision floating point unit (FPU) and high-performance RX CPU core.

The RX62T MCU Group was designed for implementing high-efficiency motor control required by white goods and industrial control systems. The RX62T-based motor-control kit is a complete end-to-end solution that will allow engineers to learn more about sensor-less vector control algorithms, evaluate the performance using a graphical user interface (GUI) and implement sensor-less vector control in their applications.  

In addition to a GUI for easy tuning and evaluation, and application notes as additional learning tools, the kit features:

• RX62T MCU featuring the high-performance 165  DMIPS at 100 MHz RX core, IEEE 754-compliant FPU, 5V supply voltage for excellent noise immunity and on-chip PGAs
• RJK0656DPB MOSFET, a high-speed switching power MOSFET featuring 60V source voltage, and low drive current, RDSon and gate charge
• A 24V/4-pole BLDC motor with encoder and hall sensors for flexibility in evaluating bi-directional speed and position control using the source code provided with the kit
• 4-speed control algorithms and 1 position-control algorithm, developed by Renesas
• Option to use external amplifiers or on-chip PGAs, and compare performance
• A connector for a user-supplied high-voltage inverter
• E1 debugger for code debugging and Flash programming
• Additional Renesas voltage regulator and logic ICs
• HEW IDE and evaluation copy of Renesas RX compiler schematics and gerber files of the board

Availability: In limited quantities beginning end of March 2012. The kit is expected to be available in volume production beginning end of September.

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