TMC8460-EVAL

The TMC8460-EVAL is a reference design and an evaluation platform for TMC8460-BC EtherCAT slave controller. The board can be used as part of Landungsbr?cke evaluation-platform or standalone. It can also be combined with Landungsbr?cke-stepper-driver boards. For Diagnosis all signals between MCU and TMC8460-EVAL are accessible with probes on the Eselsbr?cke bridgeboard. TMC8460 is the first EtherCAT slave controller IC to incorporate PWM and Step/Dir I/O peripherals that do not require routing through the firmware of an application processor, eliminating latency for applications requiring real-time response. The TMC8460 extends feature set of the core EtherCAT technology with a broad array of peripherals and features an integrated smart peripherals block accessible from an MCU or EtherCAT master and in addition to a PWM unit and Step/Dir interface, an SPI master and encoder interface that can be directly mapped to the PDO (Process Data Object) by the memory manager.

• 5V logic supply
• 85mm length
• 79mm width
• EtherCAT, a/b/n incremental, PWM, SPI, step / direction interfaces
• Additionally required is a power supply (max. 24V)