Design Automation


Development kit for connected industrial drives

29 April 2015 Design Automation

Allowing developers to differentiate and optimise motor control industrial system design, the AM437x IDK from Texas Instruments aids in the evaluation of the multi-protocol, industrial communication and feedback interface capabilities of the Sitara AM4379 and AM4377 processors based on the ARM Cortex-A9 core.

As the trend of connected drive solutions continues, intelligent industrial systems are adopting digital motor feedback systems. This digitisation, coupled with industrial Ethernet for communication, provides higher efficiency in factory and energy sectors by reducing the latency between communications and control.

The AM437x IDK combines motor control feedback and certified industrial Ethernet protocols, providing a single-chip drive solution for inverter, servo drive or AC premium drive. In addition to motor control applications, the kit aids in the development of other industrial automation applications such as programmable logic controllers (PLC) and human machine interfaces (HMI) among others.

The kit integrates certified, production-ready industrial communication protocols to provide a developer friendly industrial system solution platform.



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