The Atmel® ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK is a low voltage BLDC, PMSM motor control starter kit. The kit
contains a driver board hardware with half-bridge power MOSFET drivers, current and voltage sensing
circuit, Hall and Encoder interface, fault protection circuits, etc. The ATSAMD21MOTOR MCU card is
plugged into the driver board and has an on-board debugger. Supported by the Atmel studio integrated
development platform, the kit provides easy access to the features of ATSAMD21J18A MCU and explains
how to integrate the device in a custom motor control application. Pluggable MCU cards are available
from Atmel, supporting other SMART ARM® MCUs.
The following list contains links to the most relevant documents and software for ATSAMD21BLDC24VSTK:
•Xplained Pro products - Atmel Xplained Pro is a series of small-sized and easy-to-use evaluation
kits for Atmel microcontrollers and other Atmel products. It consists of a series of low-cost MCU
boards for evaluation and demonstration of features and capabilities of different MCU families.
•ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK User Guide - PDF version of this User Guide.
•Atmel Studio - Free Atmel IDE for development of C/C++ and assembler code for Atmel
microcontrollers.
•EDBG User Guide - User guide containing more information about the on-board Embedded
Debugger.
•Atmel Data Visualizer - Atmel Data Visualizer is a program used for processing and visualizing
data. Data Visualizer can receive data from various sources such as the Embedded Debugger Data
Gateway Interface found on Xplained Pro boards and COM ports.
11. Change the value in a field and press "Enter". For instance, to change the motor speed, type in the
desired speed within the motor's rating and press "Enter".
The ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK has a two-board architecture. The driver base board contains drive
circuits, sensor circuits, protection circuits, power supply, etc., and the MCU board (MCU card) contains
the MCU, clock circuit, and debug circuit. The MCU card is inserted into the 67-pin NGFF standard
interface on the driver board. The ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK comes with an ATSAMD21J18A MCU card.
3.1. ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK MCU Board
The main components in the ATSAMD21MOTOR MCU card are highlighted in the PCB and block
diagram given below.
The ATSAMD21MOTOR MCU card takes 3.3VDC supply from the 67-pin edge connector. Both the
EDBG device and the Main MCU operates from 3.3VDC. The power supply selection jumper on the
Driver board should be connected to 3V3 (silk screen text) selection.
3.1.2. Main MCU Circuit
The ATSAMD21MOTOR has an ATSAMD21J18A device. The device is intended to work with MCU
internal clock source. A 32.768kHz crystal is connected externally to the MCU.
3.1.3. Embedded Debugger
The ATSAMD21J18A MCU is interfaced to the EDBG debug device. The EDBG uses SWD interface for
programming and debugging the main MCU. A debug header is also provided on the MCU board with
ARM Cortex® debug pinout. An external debugger can be connected to this debug port.
The DGI is a proprietary communication interface used by the Atmel Data Visualizer software to
communicate with the development kits through the EDBG. SERCOM4 of the ATSAMD21J18A
connected to the EDBG device support DGI SPI interface and uses Atmel ADP protocol. The MCU
SERCOM4 is also connected to the UART channel of the EDBG through a pair of "normally open"
jumpers, the J200 and J201. Shorting these jumpers will enable the CDC UART interface for the main
MCU.
High Speed USB port of the EDBG is accessible at the driver board. EDBG USB enumerates as a
composite device supporting debug, DGI SPI, and CDC interfaces.
The USB port of the ATSAMD21J18A is connected to the Micro-USB connecter on the driver board.
3.2. ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK Driver Board
The driver board contains half-bridge MOSFET driver circuits for three-phase BLDC, PMSM motor drive
and supports 12-24VDC recommended bus drive voltage. Individual phase current sense, bus voltage
sense, and back-EMF sense circuits supports development of sensor-less motor drive algorithms. Hall
and Encoder sensor interfaces enables the user to develop sensor-based motor control applications. The
driver board has over-voltage protection in hardware and over-current shutdown through the MCU input.
Reverse voltage protection is available at 12-24VDC and EXT1-header external supply inputs. USB
interface headers are interfaced to the main MCU and EDBG device in the MCU board. Temperature
sensor, serial flash, XPRO interface header, and UID chip circuits are the other features included in the
driver board hardware. The figure below shows the main components and block diagram of driver board.
The half-bridge circuit is based on the NTMFS5C646NL N-channel Power MOSFET. Each half-bridge is
driven by the NCP5106A gate driver. The gate driver takes two independent PWM inputs from the MCU
and uses bootstrap technique to drive the high side Power MOSFET in the half-bridge. The bootstrap
capacitor is tied between PIN5 and PIN8 of the NCP5106 through a resistor. C5 is the bootstrap capacitor
and D1 is the bootstrap diode for phase-U half-bridge, as shown in the figure below. The bootstrap
capacitor value is chosen based on the total charge to be supplied by the capacitor and maximum
allowable voltage drop on the bootstrap capacitor.
The driver board has multiple power supply selection options. Automatic supply input selection is similar
to the Atmel Xplained Pro hardware. The block diagram shows how to use the SW1 user switch and the
jumper available on the PCB to select the MCU voltage supply.
Figure 3-6. Driver Board Power Supply
3.2.3. Phase Current Sense
The current sense resistor and the differential amplifier circuit enables measurement of individual phase
currents using the ADC channel of the MCU. The figure below shows the sense circuit for the U-phase
and reference generator. R30 is the current shunt and op-amp U8 is configured in inverting differential
amplifier configuration. Voltage offset is added to the sense output, which is the reference voltage output
generated from the MCU supply voltage (MCU supply divided by 2). Solving the circuit,
Vout = Vr-(Is.Rs)(R52/R16)
Vout = U_I_sense at TP13
Vr = reference voltage (= 1.65V)
Is = phase current
Rs = shunt resistor
Figure 3-7. Current Sense and Reference Generation Circuit
3.2.4. BEMF, DC Bus Sense
Back-EMF generated in the phase windings can be determined from the voltage read at the individual
phase terminals. A schematic drawing for the voltage scaling and the filter circuit is shown in the figure
below. BEMF output is connected to the ADC and analog comparator of the MCU. Motor DC supply is
divided by network R79, R80 and connected to ADC reference and analog comparator.
Figure 3-8. Back-EMF, DC Bus Voltage Sense Circuit
3.2.5. Over-voltage Protection (OVP)
DC bus voltage is monitored by the voltage sense circuit. If the voltage gets higher than 30VDC, the overvoltage protection will shut down the FET driver. The OVP circuit is shown in the figure below. Sense
voltage is determined by the zener diode (D7) voltage (28V) and R-network R117 and R118. Vgs
(threshold) of Q8A is typically 2V.
Over-current protection (OCP OFF) is signaled from the MCU when the total individual phase shunt
current value exceeds the limit. Shutdown circuit is shown in the image below. Q8B will be OFF in normal
operation and switches ON and shuts off U5 when OCP OFF triggers. Shutting down U5 will cut off the
MOSFET driver and can be switched back to active condition by pressing the SW2 push button.
Figure 3-10. Over-current Protection Circuit
3.2.7. Hall Sensor Interface
The Hall sensor interface uses NTS0104 level translator. The interface is tested with motors with open
drain and push pull type Hall sensor output. The LDO motor supplied with ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK has
open drain Hall sensor output type.
The encoder sensor interface uses a NTS0104 level translator. The interface is tested with motors with
open drain and push pull type encoder sensor output. The LDO motor supplied with
ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK has open drain output type.
3.2.9. Atmel Xplained PRO Interface
The Xplained PRO compatible header has a 20-pin EXT1 connector and a 4-pin power connector. All the
lines of the 20-pin header are routed to the 67-pin NGFF interface. Some pins of the header are not
connected to the MCU ports, also some pins are connected to other features on the driver board. This is
based on the availability of pins on the MCU card. The table below shows the pinout for both the
connectors in the case of ATSAMD21MOTOR MCU card supplied with the kit.
Table 3-1. EXT1- Xplained PRO Extension Header
PinPin name67-pin interfaceDriver board connectionsSAMD21J18A port
The temperature sensor is placed adjacent to the MOSFET drive circuit to sense the board temperature.
The AT30TSE758 temperature sensor is connected to the MCU through I2C and SMBus compatible 2wire interface and has 7-bit I2C address 1001111.
Table 3-3. I2C Pin Connection
Signal67Pin #SAMD21J18A MCU pinIndented MUX function
TEMP SDA12PA22SERCOM3(PAD0)
TEMP SCL13PA23SERCOM3(PAD1)
TEMP alert24PB30IO
3.2.11. Serial Flash
The AT25DF0181A 8Mb serial flash is connected to the MCU through SPI interface. Some of the pins are
routed to the EXT1 header as given in the table below.
The UID chip is a unique ID chip used by the EDBG interface to enable automatic board identification in
Atmel Studio. When the motor control evaluation board is connected to the USB port the Atmel studio
recognizes it and load the necessary software and documentation.
3.2.13. USB Communication Interface
The driver board has EDBG and MCU Micro-USB headers. EDBG USB is connected to the HS USB port
of the EDBG device in the MCU card. MCU USB is connected to the USB port of the MCU in the MCU
card plugged in.
3.2.14. Debug Test Points
Test points are available on the driver board for probing debug signals. Proper silk screen text is provided
on the PCB to identify the test points. Some of the most useful test points are highlighted in the image
below.
Atmel low voltage motor control solution support plugable MCU cards. The MCU card and driver interface
is a standard 67-pin interface as given in table below.
Table 3-5. MCU-driver Interface Pin-out
PININTERFACE NAMEDRIVER BOARDSAMD21J18A PINSAMD21 FUNCTION
1EDBG USB HSPEDBG_USB_HS_PEDBG_USB_HS_PEDBG_USB_HS_N
2NCNCNCNC
3EDBG USB HSNEDBG_USB_HS_NEDBG_USB_HS_NEDBG_USB_HS_N
4EDBG ID2EDBG_ID2/EXT1_1EDBG_PB01EDBG
5NCNCNCNC
6EDBG ID1EDBG_ID1EDBG_PA28EDBG
7MCU USB DPTARGET_USB_HS_PPA25USB_DN
8TARGET USB VBUSVCC_TARGET_USB_
NCNC
P5V0
9MCU USB DNTARGET_USB_HS_NPA24USB_DP
10EDBG USB VBUSVCC_EDBG_USB_P5V0VCC_EDBG_USB_P5V0VCC_EDBG_USB_P5
The revision and product identifier of ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK can be found by looking at the sticker on
the bottom side of the PCB. The identifier and revision are printed in plain text as A09-nnnn\rr, where
nnnn is the identifier and rr is the revision. Also the label contains a 10-digit serial number unique to each
kit assembly that contains the PCBs, motor and chassis.
The product identifier for ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK is A09-2671.
4.2. Revision
Kit assembly revision for initial version is A09-2671/03. Known issues in this revision are:
•The driver board should be powered OFF when the user is changing the power supply selection
switch or power supply selection jumper. Overall power consumption of the board seems to be
increasing otherwise.
The Atmel ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK and its accessories are manufactured in accordance to both the
RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC) and the WEEE Directive (2002/96/EC).
CE and FCC
The Atmel ATSAMD21BLDC24V-STK unit has been tested in accordance to the essential requirements
and other relevant provisions of Directives:
•Directive 2004/108/EC (class B)
•FCC rules part 15 subpart B
The following standards are used for evaluation:
•EN 61326-1 (2013)
•FCC CFR 47 Part 15 (2013)
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