FPGA motor drive starter kit for system-on-module

AMD has introduced a motor driver starter kit for its Kria K24 system-on-module – which is built around a Zynq UltraScale+ IC and measures 60 x 42 x 11mm.

The kit, called KD240 drives starter kit, includes the module, a carrier card and a heat sink.

Included is 2Gbyte (2chan x 256Mbit x 16bit/chan) of LPDDR4, and a 512Mbit QSPI primary boot memory backed by a MicroSD card secondary boot memory.

Secure boot is handled by the main IC’s hardware root-of-trust, and an Infineon TPM2.0 IC is included.

“The carrier card includes a power solution, three Ethernet interfaces, a CAN interface, a microSD card, a three-phase power inverter, and multiple analog-to-digital converter channels,” said distributor Mouser, which is carrying the kit.

One of the Ethernet ports is TSN (time-sensitive networking) enabled, and there are also connections for RS-485, USB 3.0 and quadrature encoders (single-ended and differential). A 12pin connector is provided for Pmod-compatible sensors.

Terminal blocks are provided for connecting a torque sensor, the three-phase motor and a brake control.

Mouser points out that industrially-rated Kria K24 system-on-modules are available, but the module provided with the kit (image left, heatsink removed) is only for development and not to be used in products.

Mouser’s KD240 programmable motor drive development kit product page