UCC2626
UCC3626
APPLICATION INFORMATION (cont.)
waveforms for both two and four quadrant operation are
illustrated in Fig. 12.
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Power Stage Design Considerations
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The flexible architecture of the UCC3626 requires the
user to pay close attention to the design of the power
output stage. Two and Four Quadrant applications that do
not require the brake function are able to utilize the
power stage approach illustrated in Fig. 13A. In many
cases the body diode of the MOSFET can be utilized to
reduce parts count and cost. If efficiency is a key require-
ment, Schottky diodes can be used in parallel with the
switches.
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If the system requires a braking function, diodes must be
added in series with the lower power devices and the
lower flyback diodes returned to ground, as pictured in
Fig. 13B,C. This requirement prevents brake currents
from circulating in the lower half bridge and bypassing
the sense resistor. In addition, the combination of braking
and four quadrant control necessitates an additional re-
sistor in the diode path to sense current during the PWM
'off' time as illustrated in Fig. 13C.
Figure 11. Four quadrant reversal.
If one attempts to operate in quadrants II or IV by chang-
ing the DIR bit and reversing the torque, switches 1 and 4
are turned off and switches 2 and 3 turned on. Under this
condition motor current will very quickly decay, reverse
direction and increase until the control threshold is
reached. At this point switch 2 will turn off and current will
once again circulate in the upper half bridge, however, in
this case the motor's BEMF is in phase with the current,
i.e. the motor's direction of rotation has not yet changed.
Fig. 10 illustrates the current paths when operating in this
mode. Under these conditions there is nothing to limit the
current other than motor and drive impedance. These
high circulating currents can result in damage to the
power devices in addition to high, uncontrolled torque.
Current Sensing
The UCC3626 includes a differential current sense am-
plifier with a fixed gain of five, along with an absolute
value circuit. The current sense signal should be low
pass filtered to eliminate leading edge spikes. In order to
maximize performance, the input impedance of the am-
plifier should be balanced. If the sense voltage must be
trimmed for accuracy reasons, a low value input divider
or a differential divider should be used to maintain im-
pedance matching, as shown in Fig. 14.
With four quadrant chopping motor current always flows
through the sense resistor. However, during the flyback
period the polarity across the sense resistor is reversed.
The absolute value amplifier cancels the polarity reversal
by inverting the negative sense signal during the flyback
time, see Fig. 15. Therefore, the output of the absolute
value amplifier is a reconstructed analog of the motor
current, suitable for protection as well as feedback loop
closure.
By pulse width modulating both the upper and lower
power devices (QUAD=1), motor current will always de-
cay during the PWM “off” time, eliminating any uncon-
trolled circulating currents. In addition, current will always
flow through the current sense resistor, thus providing a
suitable feedback signal. Fig. 11 illustrates the current
paths during a four quadrant torque reversal. Motor drive
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