Date: 13/02/2012

Microsemi and TRINAMIC deliver dual motor control kit

A motor control kit based on Microsemi's programmable chip SmartFusion and TRINAMIC's motor control daughter board kit is made available jointly by both Microsemi and TRINAMIC. SmartFusion packs embedded microcontroller, programmable analog and field programmable gate array (FPGA).

SmartFusion's embedded ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller is utilized for system layer task management, algorithm execution and system connectivity. The onboard programmable analog provides full sense and control for voltage, current and temperature monitoring. The flash FPGA logic enables hardware acceleration and math co-processing. In addition, computational/cycle intensive algorithmic routines can be implemented within the FPGA to execute extremely fast and efficient subroutines.