for further information contact your local stmicroelectronics sales office. september 2013 docid025033 rev 3 1/12 STEVAL-VNH5050A motor driver evaluation board based on vnh5050a data brief features ? handling up to 30 a of maximum motor current output ? undervoltage and overvoltage shutdown ? overvoltage clamp ? device thermal protection ? cross-conduction protection ? current and power limitation ? very low standby power consumption ? programmable pwm operation (up to 20 khz) ? protection against loss of ground and loss of v cc ? motor current monitoring (thanks to vnh5050a current sense output) ? device output protected against short to ground and short to v cc ? graphic user interface (gui) description STEVAL-VNH5050A offers dedicated power stage and controls suitable for electric dc motor driving. this evaluation board comes pre-assembled with vnh5050a h-bridge belonging to the vnh motor driver series based on vipower ? proprietary technology. typical applications are dual washer pump and seat regulation. this evaluation board consists of a motherboard (stm8 universal board) and a daughterboard. the motherboard, based on stm8 microcontroller, provides the logic section for monitoring and driving the vnh5050a assembled in the daughterboard. with the aim to make simpler the board usage and settings, st provides a dedicated and user- friendly software with a graphic user interface (gui). this enables the user to set vnh5050a parameters (pwm, motor direction?) and at the same time it shows real time device diagnostic information like current output evolution, battery voltage monitoring, board temperature and much more. type r ds(on) i out v cc(max) vnh5050a-e 50 m max (per leg) 30 a 41 v table 1. device summary order code reference STEVAL-VNH5050A vnh5050a evaluation board www.st.com
application schematics and layouts STEVAL-VNH5050A 2/12 docid025033 rev 3 1 application schematics and layouts 1.1 vnh5050a daughterboard figure 1. vnh5050a daughterboard top layer
STEVAL-VNH5050A application schematics and layouts docid025033 rev 3 3/12 figure 2. vnh5050a daughterboard bottom layer
application schematics and layouts STEVAL-VNH5050A 4/12 docid025033 rev 3 figure 3. vnh5050a daughterboard application schematic (part 1) 9 b ' % $ 3 % $ , 1 7 , 0 b 1 & |