DRV10987: PCB layout review

Hi Danilo,

I will review this tomorrow and get you a response by tomorrow EoD.

Thanks,

Michael

Hello Danilo,

The team is on holiday due to Memorial Day in the US, and will get back to you tomorrow!

Thanks,

Matt

Hi Danilo,

After reviewing your schematic and layout I have the following comments:

The phase to center tap resistance in the EEPROM settings you sent us is 1.3968 ohms. This should be 1.3968/2 because the devices takes phase to center tap resistance as the input.

Please review the layout recommendations on page 50 of DRV10975. You may want to have thicker traces for Vcc, GND, U/V/W since these traces have high current that passes through them.

Are you using the same schematic for both devices? Both devices are pin to pin compatible, however the schematic is slightly different. Please note that the cap is a different value on CPP and CPN.

When did this issue start happening? Was it before you switching to the DRV10975?

Since this is a low inductance motor we recommend operating the device at 50KHz PWM switching frequency. 

Please enable all three faults that are disabled (current limit, speed abnormal and abnormal kt). Then we can see if any of these are causing faults to happen as well.

Thanks,

Michael

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your valuable feedback. I will forward your comment to the customer. He would like to know as well if the Maxon EC45 200189 is suitable for DRV10987 and DRV10975 or not. Please see the specifications of the motor above.

Regards,

Danilo

Hi Danilo,

Yes that motor is fine as it falls within these parameters listen on the datasheet. 

Thanks,

Michael

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your valuable feedback regarding the PCB layout. The overheating issue happened when the customer is using DRV10987. Now they have switched to DRV10975 and have revised the layout accordingly. The customer would like to confirm if the CONFIG registers below are correct.

Config 1: 0x1349
config2 : 0x1C3B
CONFIG3 : 0x2366
CONFIG4: 1BA7
CONFIG4: 0x1BA7
CONFIG5: 0x389B
CONFIG 6: 0xB070
CONFIG 7 : 0x0B6B

Regards,

Danilo 

Hi Danilo,

My questions about DRV10987. As you know we use DRV10987 but we will change DRV.10975. I need Rm and Kt value for EC45-200189. From e-mail, I learned that the Rm value for this motor must be 0.7 Ohm (1.4 /2 Ohm). For Kt value my calculation is;

374 rpm/60 = 6.23 Hz/V

1/6.23 = 160mV/Hz

For 8 poles => 160/8 = 20mV/Hz, so Kt = 20 mV/Hz (It is the same for DRV10975)

Can you inform us whether our calculation is correct or not?

Hi Danilo,

My questions about DRV10987. As you know we use DRV10987 but we will change DRV.10975. I need Rm and Kt value for EC45-200189. From e-mail, I learned that the Rm value for this motor must be 0.7 Ohm (1.4 /2 Ohm). For Kt value my calculation is;

374 rpm/60 = 6.23 Hz/V

1/6.23 = 160mV/Hz

For 8 poles => 160/8 = 20mV/Hz, so Kt = 20 mV/Hz (It is the same for DRV10975)

Can you inform us whether our calculation is correct or not?

Hi,

Thanks for getting back. Your calculation is correct. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Regards,

Michael

Thank you Michael,

Is there any specific values for StAcce, StAccel2 and AlignTime for this driver?

Regards 

Hi,

By specific values what do you mean? There are min/max thresholds that are defined in the datasheet.

-STAccel has a min value of 0.019 Hz/s

-STAccel2 has a min value of 0.0026 Hz/s^2

-Align time as a min value of 40ms

I don't know if this answers your question.

Thanks,

Michael

Hi Michael,

We use DRV10987 as a motor controller at MAXON EC45 200189 motor.  The IC overheats in our circuit and breaks down. Our software engineer set the following data to the driver. ;I think that there should bee mistake,. Here is the setting:

-FG output

-8 pole

-Rm 1.3968

-Kt 25.76

-Tsetting 220us

-OpenLoopCurrent Ramp 6.3 Hz

-StAccel2 0.66Hz/sn2

--StAccel 4.5Hz/snAlignTime 5.3sn

-Driver Dead Time 440ns

-IPD Clock 95 Hz

-IPD Thr 0.4A

-SlewRate 120V/us

-ClosedLoopAccel 0.37Vcc/s_I2C Protocol

One of these (or more) can be caused overheating

Hi All,

I would start with evm board, then if it works well with the motor I would proceed with my own board. I would just add capacitor around 470-1000uF between Vcc and GND or TVS diode to limit any possible overvoltages at Vcc during trials.

Coming back to pcb layout I agree with what Michael said, additionally for me ground layers on both sides look nonoptimal and might be source of problems.

I would try to determine if IC gets hot and then stops to work or stops to work and then gets hot. The first case would indicate overheating problems, the second one electric failure.

Regards,

Grzegorz

Hi,

This does not appear to be a device config issue.

Have you made any modifications to the PCB? If not, please try to implement the suggestions I made in my previous post. After you implement those we can review your new layout and go from there.

Thanks,

Michael

Hi Michael,

You can see the modification about the PCB on the top 2 picture. In new design,, we use DRV10975 instead of DRV10987. When the IC come us we will use with new Config.  and you say that this CONFIG does not effect the overheating., right? So the problem seems only old layout.

Regards

Hi User,

Yes the config is fine, no issues. It won't effect overheating.

Please let me know if you have any more questions, best of luck.

Thanks,

Michael

Thank you Michael,

The new PCB as soon as come, i will try the circuit. If i see any problem, i will write again.

Regards

Hi,

I want to ask an extra poroblem about DRV10975. My motor, MAXONEC45 200189, has got Rph-ph resistance is 1.4 Ohm so its Rph-ct value will be half of this value. 0.7 Ohm In Table 2 sheet 19 , for value for 0.7 Ohm it must be 3C. But the calculation for formula Rmdig =0.7/0.00735 is equal to 95. which is 5F. Which one is correct?

Thank you.

Regards

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Regards,

Vishnu

Hi,

We checked the system today. Motor does not turn. It starts to turn but stop within a 2 second. System gives Lock0 fault. Motor locks suddenly. I could not understand why.

Regards

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Regards,

Vishnu