TMC5130-EVAL Manual / Firmware V1.00 (Rev. 0.92 / 2014-DEC-04)
preliminary
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Set-up and Features
The TMC5130-EVAL is part of an evaluation board system. Offering a very convenient handling for chip
evaluation, TRINAMIC developed a plug-in system which consists of three parts: STARTRAMPE,
ESELSBRÜCKE, and TMC5130-EVAL.
STARTRAMPE
STARTRAMPE is a baseboard. It is equipped with a STM32F ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller (and EEPROM)
and controls the TMC5130. The FLASH memory of the microcontroller holds a program for configuration
of the TMC5130. Further, STARTRAMPE controls the communication with the PC via USB or RS232 interface.
For connecting STARTRAMPE to the PC, use the mini-USB interface connector on the board. Additionally,
it is possible to communicate via the RS232 interface. Therefore, a connector can be soldered with little
effort.
ESELSBRÜCKE
This small board forwards signals from STARTRAMPE to TMC5130-EVAL. ESELSBRÜCKE provides test points
for several measurements.
TMC5130-EVAL
This evaluation board is designed for testing all features of the TMC5130. The TMC5130 motion controller
and driver IC is an intelligent power component interfacing between the CPU and a stepper motor. Several
motion commands can be easily executed. The TMC5130 offers a number of unique enhancements which
are enabled by the system-on-chip integration of driver and controller. The sixPoint ramp generator of
the TMC5130 uses dcStep, coolStep, and stallGuard2 automatically in order to optimize every motor
movement.
Using the TMCL-IDE V3.0 software tool, all features of the TMC5130A-TA can be tried out.
STARTRAMPE
TMC Evaluation Platform
TMC5130-EVAL
Evaluation Board
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Figure 1.1 TMC5130-EVAL plug-in system set-up
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