9_9

BLANK

9_9

BLANK

VREF

Drive

Brake / Slow Decay

Drive

Brake / Slow Decay

REF

OFF

CHOP

V

SENSE

9

± 9

I

A

R



K

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7.3.3 Current Regulation

The maximum current through the motor winding is regulated by a fixed off-time PWM current regulation, or

current chopping. When an H-bridge is enabled in forward or reverse drive, current rises through the winding at a

rate dependent on the DC voltage and inductance of the winding. After the current hits the current chopping

Note that immediately after the current is enabled, the voltage on the SP pin is ignored for a period of time

The PWM chopping current is set by a comparator which compares the voltage across a current sense resistor

is the shunt amplifier gain, which is 20 V/V in the DRV8701.

The chopping current is calculated as follows:

(1)

Example: If a 50 m

For DC motors, current regulation is generally used to limit the start-up and stall current of the motor. If the

current regulation feature is not needed, it can be disabled by tying VREF directly to AVDD and tying SP and SN

to GND.

Figure 21. Sense Amplifier and Current Chopping Operation

During brake mode (slow decay), current is recirculated through the low-side FETs. Because current is not

flowing through the sense resistor, SO does not represent the motor current.

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