Intel® MAX® 10 FPGA – AN 773: Drive-On-Chip Motor Control and Power Conversion (Tandem) Design Example

Intel® MAX® 10 FPGA – AN 773: Drive-On-Chip Motor Control and Power Conversion (Tandem) Design Example

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8/3/2023

Introduction

The motor control reference design demonstrates the synchronous control of up to two three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) or brushless DC (BLDC) motors. It also demonstrates the control of a bidirectional DC-DC converter with control loops in the DSP Builder for Intel® FPGAs generated hardware. This version also includes high-speed control.

Design Details

Device Family

Intel® MAX® 10 10M50 FPGA

Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition

Quartus Version

17.0.2

IP Cores (14)
IP Core IP Core Category
Avalon ATLPLL PLL
JTAG to Avalon Master Bridge Memory Mapped
Nios II Processor Processors and Peripherals
Floating Point Hardware 2 Nios II Custom Instructions
On-Chip Memory (RAM or ROM) On Chip Memory
DDR3 SDRAM Controller with UniPHY Memory Interfaces with UniPHY
Performance Counter Unit Debug and Performance
Interval Timer Peripherals
Altera Modular Dual ADC Core Peripherals
System IP Peripheral Debug and Performance
PIO (Parallel I/O) Peripherals
SPI (3 Wire Serial) Serial
Altera Generic QUAD SPI Controller Flash
Altera ASMI Parallel Configuration and Programming

Detailed Description

Prepare the design template in the Quartus Prime software GUI (version 14.1 and later)


Note: After downloading the design example, you must prepare the design template. The file you downloaded is of the form of a <project>.par file which contains a compressed version of your design files (similar to a .qar file) and metadata describing the project. The combination of this information is what constitutes a <project>.par file. In releases 16.0 or newer, you can simply double click on the <project>.par file and Quartus will launch that project.


The second means to bring up the project template is through the New Project Wizard (File -> New Project Wizard). After entering the project name and folder on the first panel, the second panel will ask you to specify an empty project or project template. Select project template. You will see a list of Design Templates projects that you have loaded prior as well as various "Baseline Pinout Designs" that contain the pinout and settings for a variety of development kits. If you don't see your design template in the list, click on the link that states install the Design Templates circled below:



Browse to the <project>.par file you downloaded, click next, followed by Finish, and your design template will be installed and displayed in the Project Navigator pane in Quartus.


Note: When a design is stored in the Design Store as a design template, it has been previously regression tested against the stated version of Quartus software. The regression ensures the design template passes analysis/synthesis/fitting/assembly steps in the Quartus design flow.



Prepare the design template in the Quartus Prime software command-line


At the command-line, type the following command:

quartus_sh --platform_install -package <project directory>/<project>.par


Once the process completes, then type:

quartus_sh --platform -name <project>

Design Details

Device Family

Intel® MAX® 10 10M50 FPGA

Quartus Edition

Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition

Quartus Version

17.0.2