Development framework offers ‘unprecedented’ system integration

The Motor Control Development Framework includes a set of customisable, single and multi axis drive on a chip reference designs and a portfolio of motor control hardware development boards, coupled with a system and software design methodology. The framework exploits the dsp hardware and soft embedded cpu capability in Altera Cyclone IV and Cyclone V fpgas, as well as the dual ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processors in the hard processor subsystem of Altera's Cyclone V SoC fpgas. "The Altera Motor Control Development Framework brings the ideal of a high performance, drive on a chip implementation to reality by combining the flexibility and performance of Altera's low cost silicon with productive system level design flows for motor control applications," said Christoph Fritsch, senior manager in the industrial business unit at Altera. By providing an integrated motor control solution, including tools, IP, development boards and design methodology, combined with Industrial Ethernet and functional safety offerings, Fritsch says designers can rapidly build differentiated drive platforms that also easily scale to meet evolving and future system requirements.