AN 773: Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices

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1. About the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices 2. Features of the Drive-on-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices 3. Getting Started with the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices 4. Rebuilding the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices 5. About the Scaling of Feedback Signals 6. Motor Control Software 7. Functional Description of the Drive-on-Chip Design Example 8. Achieving Timing Closure on a Motor Control Design 9. Design Security Recommendations 10. Reference Documents for the Drive-on-Chip Design Example 11. Document Revision History for AN 773: Drive-on-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices
3. Getting Started with the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices x
3.1. Software Requirements for the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices 3.2. Hardware Requirements for the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices 3.3. Downloading and Installing the Design 3.4. Setting Up the Motor Control Board with your Development Board for the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices 3.5. Importing the Drive-On-Chip Design Example Software Project 3.6. Configuring the FPGA Hardware for the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices 3.7. Programming the Nios II Software to the Device for the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices 3.8. Applying Power to the Power Board 3.9. Debugging and Monitoring the Drive-On-Chip Design Example with System Console 3.10. System Console GUI Upper Pane for the Drive-On-Chip Design Example 3.11. System Console GUI Lower Pane for the Drive-On-Chip Design Example 3.12. Controlling the DC-DC Converter 3.13. Tuning the PI Controller Gains 3.14. Controlling the Speed and Position Demonstrations 3.15. Monitoring Performance
3.2. Hardware Requirements for the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices x
3.2.1. Preparing the Rechargeable Battery
4. Rebuilding the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices x
4.1. Changing the Intel® MAX® 10 ADC Thresholds or Conversion Sequence 4.2. Generating the Qsys System 4.3. Compiling the Hardware in the Intel Quartus Prime Software 4.4. Generating and Building the Nios II BSP for the Drive-On-Chip Design Example 4.5. Software Application Configuration Files 4.6. Compiling the Software Application for the Drive-On-Chip Design Example 4.7. Programming the Design into Flash Memory
4.5. Software Application Configuration Files x
4.5.1. Defining a New Motor or Encoder Type
5. About the Scaling of Feedback Signals x
5.1. Signal Sensing in Sigma-Delta and MAX 10 Integrated ADCs 5.2. Signal Scaling in the Software of the Drive-on-Chip Design Example 5.3. Scale Factors for the Drive-on-Chip Design Example in the System Console Toolkit
6. Motor Control Software x
6.1. Viewing Motor Control Software Help Files
7. Functional Description of the Drive-on-Chip Design Example x
7.1. Processor Subsystem 7.2. Six-channel PWM Interface 7.3. DC Link Monitor 7.4. Drive System Monitor 7.5. Quadrature Encoder Interface 7.6. Sigma-Delta ADC Interface for Drive Axes 7.7. Intel® MAX® 10 ADCs 7.8. ADC Threshold Sink 7.9. DC-DC Converter 7.10. Motor Control Modes 7.11. FOC Subsystem 7.12. DEKF Technique 7.13. Signals 7.14. Registers
7.4. Drive System Monitor x
7.4.1. Drive System Monitor States for the Drive-on-Chip Design Example
7.6. Sigma-Delta ADC Interface for Drive Axes x
7.6.1. Offset Adjustment for Sigma-Delta ADC Interface
7.9. DC-DC Converter x
7.9.1. DC-DC Control Simulink Models 7.9.2. Sigma-Delta ADC Interface for DC-DC Converter
7.9.1. DC-DC Control Simulink Models x
7.9.1.1. DC-DC Control Block 7.9.1.2. Generating VHDL for the DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs Models for the DC-DC Converter
7.9.1.1. DC-DC Control Block x
7.9.1.1.1. DC-DC Model and VHDL Entity Signal Names and Data Format
7.11. FOC Subsystem x
7.11.1. DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs Model for the Drive-on-Chip Designs 7.11.2. Avalon Memory-Mapped Interface 7.11.3. About DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs 7.11.4. DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs Folding 7.11.5. DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs Model Resource Usage 7.11.6. DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs Design Guidelines 7.11.7. Generating VHDL for the DSP Builder Models for the Drive-on-Chip Designs
8. Achieving Timing Closure on a Motor Control Design x
8.1. Optimizing Motor Control Designs
1. About the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices
2. Features of the Drive-on-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices
3. Getting Started with the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices
4. Rebuilding the Drive-On-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices
5. About the Scaling of Feedback Signals
6. Motor Control Software
7. Functional Description of the Drive-on-Chip Design Example
8. Achieving Timing Closure on a Motor Control Design
9. Design Security Recommendations
10. Reference Documents for the Drive-on-Chip Design Example
11. Document Revision History for AN 773: Drive-on-Chip Design Example for Intel® MAX® 10 Devices

5.2. Signal Scaling in the Software of the Drive-on-Chip Design Example

The software performs scaling to:
  • Normalize sigma-delta and ADC samples for use in the FOC algorithm
  • Apply zero offsets
  • Position feedback scaling

Figure 19. Signal Scaling ArchitectureThis figure shows a simplified block diagram of the scaling in the software application supporting the Tandem Motion-Power 48 V Board.

Scaling of Motor Phase Current Samples

The design treats motor phase current samples as dimensionless numbers in the FOC algorithm, rather than real current measurements.

To compensate for the differences in signal conditioning between the different ADCs, the design scales Intel® MAX® 10 ADC samples as it reads them from the ADC to normalize them to represent the same physical quantity as the sigma-delta ADC samples.

To compensate for the differences in signal conditioning between the different ADCs, the design scales any other ADC samples as it reads them from the ADC to normalize them to represent the same physical quantity as the sigma-delta ADC samples.

Table 7.  Scaling of Intel® MAX® 10 Motor Phase Current SamplesThis table shows the ADC responses for the motor phase currents and the scaling applied to the Intel® MAX® 10 ADC samples to normalize them to the Sigma-Delta samples. The scaling is also shown with a power-of-2 divisor to simplify integer arithmetic.
Item Sigma-Delta Intel® MAX® 10
Motor Phase Currents 1024 counts/A 81.9 counts/A
Scaling 1 1024/81.9 or 12803/1024

Calculation of Zero Offsets

Offset errors arise in the ADC conversion process from a number of factors, including

  • Component tolerance in sense circuits
  • Offsets in sense amplifiers
  • Errors in Vdd supply to sense amplifiers and ADCs
  • Offsets in the ADC converters
Offsets are most noticeable when converting low level signals where they lead to a larger error in percentage terms. For the most crucial feedback, the design attempts to calculate and correct for the offsets.

Motor Phase Current Zero Offset

The design calculates the zero offset for the motor phase current during startup. the design samples several conversions while no motor current is flowing. The design averages the samples to calculate the offset. It applies them as a correction to the offset register in the sigma delta ADC module

Inductor Current Zero Offset on Tandem Motion Power Board

You cannot shut off the current flow through the DC-DC inductors. The design calculates approximate offsets from the average of the offsets previously calculated for the motor phase currents. The design applies power to all the converters from the same Vdd supply and in the same ambient surroundings.

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