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Contents

Hardware description and setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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Components description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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Board connections and setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Software installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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USB Driver installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Graphical User Interface (GUI) installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Graphical User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Summary of Contents for STEVAL-VNH5050A

Page 1: ...ion board consists of a motherboard STM8 Universal Board and a daughter board The motherboard based on STM8 microcontroller provides the logic section for monitoring and driving the VNH5050A assembled...

Page 2: ...Hardware description and setup 4 1 1 Components description 4 1 2 Board connections and setup 4 2 Software installation 6 2 1 USB Driver installation 6 2 2 Graphical User Interface GUI installation 7...

Page 3: ...k diagram 4 Figure 3 STEVAL VNH5050A connections 5 Figure 4 Driver installation window 1 2 6 Figure 5 Driver installation window 2 2 6 Figure 6 GUI installation 1 2 7 Figure 7 GUI installation 2 2 7 F...

Page 4: ...er interfacing host PC with H Bridge controller The communication with the PC is established through isolated USB Daughter Board assembling VNH5050A and the reverse battery protection The DC motor has...

Page 5: ...pers are already set in their default position Table 1 Motherboard jumper configuration Jumper Description Default Position JP2 5V_DB Not present JP2 5V_STM8 Present JP4 RxD USART JP5 TxD USART JP6 Re...

Page 6: ...er installation The following installation procedure starts automatically after plugging the Evaluation Board to the host PC Figure 4 Driver installation window 1 2 Figure 5 Driver installation window...

Page 7: ...e GUI installs to the destination folder indicated by the wizard Default folder is C Program Files x86 VNHFULLBridge but the user is free to indicate another path name and folder Figure 6 GUI installa...

Page 8: ...Graphical User Interface UM1682 8 11 DocID025392 Rev 2 3 Graphical User Interface Figure 8 Main Window 1 2 Figure 9 Main Window 2 2 1 3 1 3...

Page 9: ...DocID025392 Rev 2 9 11 UM1682 Graphical User Interface 10 Figure 10 Current measurement Graph Figure 11 Driving profiles 1 3 1 3...

Page 10: ...Revision history UM1682 10 11 DocID025392 Rev 2 4 Revision history Table 2 Document revision history Date Revision Changes 16 Oct 2013 1 Initial release 24 Jun 2014 2 Added Section 2 1 and Section 2 2...

Page 11: ...OPYRIGHT OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT ST PRODUCTS ARE NOT DESIGNED OR AUTHORIZED FOR USE IN A SAFETY CRITICAL APPLICATIONS SUCH AS LIFE SUPPORTING ACTIVE IMPLANTED DEVICES OR SYSTEMS WITH PROD...