Toshiba Electronics Europe partners with Mikroe to introduce motor driving board

Toshiba Electronics Europe has partnered with Mikroe to integrate its SmartMCD for dual brushed DC motors into the SmartMCD TB9M001FTG board

The board enables automotive engineers to design the TB9M001FTG smart motor control driver for automotive applications such as powered windows, electric sunroofs, adjustable seats, and wipers, streamlining the prototyping phase.

The AEC-Q100-qualified SmartMCD device meets ASIL-A requirements and contains robust safety features, including built-in error detection for overcurrent (low-side and high-side drivers), overvoltage, undervoltage, and thermal shutdown protection.

The device features a built-in microcontroller (MCU) with an Arm Cortex-M0 core and integrates 16kB of RAM and 192kB of Flash memory, with an additional 16kB of Data Flash, all within error-correcting code for single-error correction and double-error detection.

The SmartMCD device integrates four low-side relay drivers, enabling forward and reverse control of two brushed DC motors with single-pole double-throw (SPDT) relays. It also has two high-side drivers for supporting 5V and 12V loads to external components, a LIN transceiver for in-vehicle communication, and an integrated power management system that generates all the necessary voltage levels from the car battery.

The SmartMCD TB0M001FTG board’s compact design includes all the circuitry required for motor control and operational testing, including various configurable general-purpose input/output with several connection options, selectable by jumpers. An on-board debugger, compliant with the CMSIS-DAP on-board emulator standard, enables out-of-the-box operation, testing, and debugging of the target device.