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The drive board has been designed for a small form factor in consideration of the small factors of the
appliance fans. Because the motor driver has sensors, the printed-circuit board (PCB) is typically housed
inside the motor, which explains the requirement for placing Hall sensors on the board. The low-cost
requirement also confines the design to a single-side board.
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2 System Description
The use of permanent-magnet brushless DC motors continue to gain prominence in the field because of
their high efficiency, low maintenance, high reliability, low rotor inertia, and low noise as compared to the
brushed motor counterpart. A brushless permanent-magnet motor has a wound stator, which is a
permanent magnet rotor assembly. These types of motors generally use internal or external devices to
sense rotor position. The sensing devices provide logic signals for electronically switching the stator
windings in the proper sequence to maintain rotation of the magnet assembly.
The DRV10970 is an electronic drive which is used to sinusoidally control the drive of a sensored BLDC
motor. The system operates at 12-V power and provides the motor terminal outputs. The design
implements Hall sensors because the electronic components are placed inside the motor for most
sensored BLDC motors. The system also accepts user inputs such as direction and speed also in addition
to providing some feedback, such as lock detection and speed feedback.
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C3
DNP U_HP U_HN
0.1µF
C4
DNP V_HP V_HN
VINT 0.1µF
C5
DNP W_HP W_HN
0.1µF
R6 R7 R8
10k 10k 10k
U2
GND 2
DRV5013ADQLPGM
U3
1 3 V_HP
VCC OUT
2
GND
DRV5013ADQLPGM
U4
1 3 W_HP
VCC OUT
2
GND
DRV5013ADQLPGM
GND
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The three capacitors C3, C4, and C5 filter the noise on the Hall sensor outputs. The Hall sensors are
typically located inside the motor; for this reason, the user can connect the Hall sensor outputs across
these capacitors if it is not feasible to mount the complete board inside the PCB. Take the appropriate
level of care with the reference in this configuration. If using the board directly inside the motor and the
Hall sensors require mounting on the component side (the design is on the top side), the user must modify
the Hall sensor pinout.
BRKMOD FR CMTMOD
The current sense resistor helps to set the current limit during operation. The current sense resistor is
calculated by Equation 1 (refer to the datasheet for more details).
ILIMIT =
(VILIM _ THR ´ ACL )
RCS
where
• VILIM_THR = 1.2 V (typical)
• ACL = 25000 A/A (typical) (1)
During a fault condition, the device stops the drive and attempts to drive the motor again after a certain
time. The capacitor CRETRY determines this retry time, which is controlled by the charging and discharging
of the cap with VRETRY_H (1.2 V) and VRETRY_L (0.6 V) and source and sink current at 10 uA typical
(see Equation 2 and Figure 4).
TLOCK _ EX = 15.36 ´ 106 ´ CRETRY
where
• TLOCK_EX is in seconds (2)
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FR 23 FR
RETRY 22 RETRY
C7 PWM 19 PWM
0.1µF
CS 17 CS
R4 CPP 9 CPP
24.0k
C8
GND 0.1µF CPN 10 CPN
GND DRV10970PWP
With the constraint of a single-side board, the GND connection is routed to multiple places throughout the
board. To avoid the ground loop on current sense and VINT, utilize the optional resistor provision on the
board. If the GND noise is too much to handle for the current sense and VINT circuit, R13 can be added
on the board.
3.4 Control
The design has a provision for controlling user inputs through connections (Figure 5).
• PWM: A PWM input (frequency range of 15 kHz to 100 kHz) is used to control the speed of the motor
during runtime.
• FG: The FG signal provides the electrical speed of the motor by toggling an open-drain output, which
has already been pulled high to VINT on the board.
FG PWM PWM
FG
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4 Block Diagram
4.1.1 DRV10970
The DRV10970 is an integrated, three-phase BLDC motor driver for home appliances, cooling fans, and
other the general-purpose motor control applications. The embedded intelligence, small form factor, and
simple pinout structure reduce the design complexity, board space, and system cost. The integrated
protections improve the system robustness and reliability.
The output stage of the DRV10970 device consists of three half bridges. Each half bridge is capable of
driving up to 1-A RMS and 1.5-A peak output current. When the device enters sleep mode, it consumes a
typical 35-μA of current.
The advanced 180° sine-wave commutation algorithm is embedded into the device that achieves high
efficiency, low torque ripple, and superior acoustic performance. The automatic driving angle adjustment
function achieves the most optimized efficiency regardless of the motor parameters and load conditions.
The DRV10970 has been designed for Hall sensor-based applications. The differential Hall signal inputs
are detected by the integrated comparators. The device supports single Hall-based applications and three
Halls-based applications. The single Hall sensor mode reduces the system cost by eliminating two Hall
sensors.
The device implements a standard control interface which includes PWM input (speed command), FG
output (speed feedback), FR input (forward and reverse direction control), and RD output (motor lock
indicator).
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The DRV10970 supports both 30° and 0° Hall sensors (with respect to the corresponding phase back-
electromotive force [BEMF]). The device implements a trapezoidal drive mode to address the higher
power requirement.
The DRV10970 device determines the motor lock condition based on the absence of hall input switching.
The device re-attempts to spin the motor after an adjustable auto-retry time, which can be configured by a
capacitor connected to the RETRY pin.
The device incorporates multiple protection features such as overcurrent, undervoltage, overtemperature,
and locked rotor conditions to improve the system robustness.
The DRV10970 is packaged in a thermally enhanced 24-pin TSSOP package (eco-friendly: RoHS and no
Sb/Br).
4.1.2 DRV5013
The DRV5013 device is a chopper-stabilized Hall effect sensor that offers a magnetic sensing solution
with superior sensitivity stability over temperature and integrated protection features.
The magnetic field is indicated through a digital bipolar latch output. The integrated circuit (IC) has an
open-drain output stage with a 30-mA current sink capability. A wide operating voltage range from 2.5 V to
38 V with reverse polarity protection up to –22 V makes the device suitable for a wide range of industrial
applications.
Internal protection functions have been provided for reverse supply conditions, load dump, and output
short circuit or overcurrent.
Device features
• Digital bipolar-latch Hall sensor
• Superior temperature stability
– BOP ±10% overtemperature
• High sensitivity options (BOP and BRP)
– +2.7 / –2.7 mT (AD)
– +6 / –6 mT (AG)
– +12 / –12 mT (BC)
• Supports a wide voltage range
– 2.5 to 38 V
– No external regulator required
• Wide operating temperature range
– TA = –40 to 125°C (Q)
• Open-drain output (30-mA sink)
• Fast 35-µs power-on time
• Small package and footprint
– Surface mount 3-pin SOT-23 (DBZ)
• 2.92 mm × 2.37 mm
– Throughhole 3-pin TO-92 (LPG)
• 4.00 mm × 3.15 mm
• Protection features
– Reverse supply protection (up to –22 V)
– Supports up to 40-V load dump
– Output short-circuit protection
– Output current limitation
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5 Getting Started
The hardware is capable of exploring all the available features of the DRV10970 device.
5.2 Start
After having correctly implemented the hardware settings, connect the power supply to the board and
motor connected to U/V/W terminals on the board.
Switch on the power supply and apply the PWM input to the PWM jumper for speed control. The FG
output shows the speed as an electrical frequency.
5.3 Runtime
Change the speed command through the PWM input and observe the speed feedback on the FG pin.
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6 Test Setup
The board was tested with a Hurst motor number DMB0224C10002. The board was supplied by an
Agilent E3634A power supply at 12 V. The following waveforms have been captured using the Tektronix
DPS4034 oscilloscope. The power supply setting was kept at 12 V with a current limit of 3 A. Figure 7
shows an image of the test setup.
7 Test Data
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8 Design Files
8.1 Schematics
To download the schematics, see the design files at TIDA-00919.
9 References
1. Texas Instruments, DRV10970 3-Phase Brushless DC Motor Driver, DRV10970 Datasheet (SLVSCU7)
10 Terminology
BEMF— Back-electromotive force
BLDC— Brushless DC motor
ESD— Electrostatic discharge
FET— Field-effect transistor
MOSFET— Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor
PWM— Pulse width modulation
RMS— Root mean square
RPM— Rotations per minute
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