High-current motor-control board compatible with Arduino and XMC1100

Farnell element14 now stocks Infineons's DC motor control shield - one of the first high current motor control boards that is compatible with both Arduino and the Infineon XMC1100 Boot Kit. It can drive two uni-directional DC motors (half bridge configuration) or one bi-directional DC motor (H-Bridge configuration). The integrated BTN8982TA NovalithIC half bridges can be controlled by a PWM via the IN Pin. The integrated driver IC makes Interfacing to a microcontroller easy, thanks to its logic level inputs, diagnosis with current sense, slew rate adjustment, dead time generation and protection against over-temperature, under-voltage, over-current and short-circuit. Key benefits of the control shield include rapid prototyping of DC motor control, easy testing of half and full bridge motor control, status flag diagnosis with current sense capability and over-temperature shut down with latch behaviour and under-voltage shutdown.