Imagine what you could design with one $1.50 microcontroller that offered you system protection, power conversion AND motor control. At its price, performance and package size, the C2000™ Piccolo™ F2802x microcontrollers are perfect for household appliances, industrial machines and compressors
So, how exactly can you increase system protection in your motor control designs with these microcontrollers? Along with a 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the Piccolo F2802x microcontrollers also integrate analog comparators which help designers seeking to manage power stages and provide system protection in motor control and digital power systems. The internal comparators enable designers to implement seamless shutdown of select pulse-width modulation channels or trigger other events, without the cost of external complicated fault management circuits.
I suppose you’re asking yourself how you’d also add power conversion and cost-effective battery charging. Well, also integrated on the Piccolo F2802x microcontrollers are high-resolution, enhanced pulse width modulators (ePWMs) which provide effective power conversion, along with motor control, using one device. Developers can add cost-effective battery charging via solar or induction to their motor control applications, as well as active power factor correction (PFC) with sufficient performance to implement internal slope compensation with peak current mode control (PCMC) of a secondary DC-DC conversion stage.
Now, with all that capability in one little microcontroller, what would YOU design?