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FalconEye Reference Platform for Brushless Motors

  

  

The FalconEye reference design platform was developed in collaboration between Avago Technologies, Fairchild Semiconductor, Freescale Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics. The modular construction of the FalconEye Board with PFC (power factor correction) is used for the electronically and/or regulation of brushless synchronous and asynchronous motors.
FalconEye from EBV offers developers enormous potential, ranging from huge energy savings to high-precision control options and significant improvements in EMI behavior.


At the present FalconEye is optimally suited to controlling brushless direct current motors (BLDCs). However, the board can also be easily converted to control alternating current motors (BLACs), switched reluctance motors (SR) and induction motors (IM).

Hardware

Together with the Cologne University of Applied Science, EBV developed in conjunction with franchise partner Avago Technologies, Fairchild Semiconductor, Freescale Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics a modular board for Brushless Motors. The board is equipped with all electronics to control the included brushless direct current (BLDC) motor and has been designed with EMI filter for operation at standard supply voltages (90–240 Vac).
FalconEye is using the UL-certified FSBB15CH60 smart-power-module from Fairchild Semiconductor. This is a complete three-phase IGBT inverter in which the gate control and the protective circuit are already integrated for three phase AC motors in the power range of 500 W.
The Freescale 56F8013 digital signal controller (DSC) demo board used in FalconEye is suitable for demonstration purposes as well as for the development of applications. The host computer can be connected via a RS232 interface. During software development a JTAG pod connects the JTAG port of the DSC to the parallel interface of the PC. The built in galvanic isolation “Avago Technologies” means that the development engineer can test his algorithms without any problem even if the target application doesn’t include galvanic isolation due to cost reasons.
The board contains an efficient switched mode power supply in which the FSQ321 from Fairchild provides the supply voltage for the logic: from 300V input voltage (rectified mains), several galvanically isolated voltages are generated.

For further information please contact
falconeye@ebv.com


 



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The size of the board is 26,5 cm x 17,5 cm incl. 300 V Motor Brushless DC.


Software

The FalconEye board is provided with demo software showing the following features:

  • Hall sensor decoding for commutation
  • Park Transformation
  • Clark Transformation
  • Space Vector Modulation
  • Current control in the rotor frame
  • Velocity control

Download FalconEye Software


Block Diagram



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Price and Availability

Product Code: FalconEye
The price for the FalconEye Board is 520€, it is provided with the following features:

Included Hardware

  • FalconEye Board
  • MC56F8013 Demo Board
  • J-TAG DSP
  • 25pol cable
  • Brushless DC Motor (300 V) incl. Second shaft extension for an incremental Encoder from Avago Technologies 

Included Software

  • CD 56800/E Accelerated Development system Resource Pack
  • CD Code Warrior for MC56800/E

Comment

The limitation is for 16k code size. Also available via download from Freescale Semiconductor.

  • BLDC-Motor software based on the Freescale DSP sample code (Sensorless, Hall only Feedback)
  • Excel sheet for PFC component sizing

Documentation

  • Hardware and Software Quick Start Guide
  • FalconEye User Manual
  • Datasheets for key components 

Optionally Software packages are available for 32k and 64k code size, contact your local sales office.


About the Partner Companies

About Avago Technologies
Avago Technologies is a leading supplier of innovative semiconductor solutions for advanced communications, industrial and commercial applications. With a global employee presence, Avago provides an extensive range of analog, mixed-signal and optoelectronic components and subsystems to more than 40,000 customers. The company's products serve four end markets: industrial and automotive, wired infrastructure, wireless communications, and computer peripherals. It is recognized for providing high-quality products along with strong customer service and the industry’s best on-time delivery. Avago’s heritage of technical innovation dates back 40 years to its Agilent/Hewlett-Packard roots. Information about Avago is available at
www.avagotech.com

dematek GmbH & Co. KG
We are a team with many years’ experience in the development, design and manufacture of small electric drive systems and the associated control electronics. Our primary mission is to develop drive systems to match your requirements, and to manufacture them to your specifications and deadlines. In addition to standard products, we are happy to produce individual items and small batches. We carry out customized adaptations of drive control systems and other electronic components even for small production runs. For more information about dematek GmbH visit www.dematek.de

About Fairchild Semiconductors
Fairchild Semiconductor International is the leading global supplier of high performance semiconductor products in the Power, Interface, analog, mixed signal, logic, optoelectronic and configurable products markets. As the industry’s first multi-market company, Fairchild has a history of leading-edge Innovation; this tradition continues through a singular focus on creatively managing, converting, minimizing and distributing Power - one of the most important defining characteristics of a semiconductor company in the early 21st century. 
www.fairchildsemi.com

About Freescale Semiconductors
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2006 sales of $ 6.4 billion (USD). Freescale is dedicated to providing comprehensive system solutions that not only improve motor efficiency but also minimize system updates, development time and maintenance costs. www.freescale.com

About STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics is a global leader in developing and delivering semiconductor solutions across the spectrum of microelectronics applications. An unrivalled combination of silicon and system expertise, manufacturing strength, Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio and strategic partners positions the Company at the forefront of System-on-Chip (SoC) technology and its products play a key role in enabling today's convergence markets. The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, on Euro next Paris and on the Milan Stock Exchange. In 2006, the Company's net revenues were .85 billion and net earnings were 2 million. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com.

About Prof. Krah of Cologne University of Applied Science
Prof. Jens Onno Krah studied electrical engineering at the University of Wuppertal, obtaining his PhD in 1993 for research done under Prof. Holtz on electrical drives. Until February 2004, he worked as technical director for Danaher Motion Düsseldorf. He was responsible for the development of the Danaher Motion servo drives. Since March 2004 Prof. Krah has been teaching control engineering and digital signal processing at Cologne University of Applied Sciences.


Related Links

Brochure FalconEye (PDF 5,430 kB)
Motion Control Brochure "We Control Motion" 
(PDF 5,862 kB)
User Manual FalconEye (PDF 5,981 kB)
Quick Start Guide FalconEye 
(PDF 1,605 kB)
Webpage Freescale FreeMASTER Real-Time
Control and Debugging Tool



  

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