Toshiba launches TMPM4K development board for motor control

     Toshiba M4K MCU dedicated MIKROE Clicker 4 development board combined with Clicker 4 inverter expansion board is a cost-effective and simple solution for experimenting BLDC motor control scenarios. Clicker 4 for TMPM4K comes with an onboard debugger, no external debugger is required. Its four mikroBUS™ sockets can be connected to many different MIKROE Click boards™, so it can be expanded for more functions.

     It also features expansion connectors, JTAG/SWD debug ports, LED indicators and buttons. This board comes with the Clicker 4 Inverter Expansion Board, which is a power supply with six MOSFETs for motor drive, a switching power supply that regulates the motor supply voltage up to 48V, and a regulated 5V power supply that can be used by an external controller board . The flexible interface on the board can obtain positioning feedback from Hall sensors and incremental encoders, and it also has an overcurrent protection function to ensure stability and reliability.

     M4K MCUs are widely used across the industry and have proven to be ubiquitous in enabling next-generation motor control. These devices rely on an Arm® Cortex®-M4 processor core with a Floating Point Unit (FPU) and Memory Protection Unit (MPU), which can run at 160MHz and feature Advanced Programmable Motor Driver (A-PMD) capabilities , and the Advanced Vector Engine (A-VE+) function for vector control purposes. Its memory resources include 256KB of code flash and 32KB of data flash.

     Clicker 4 and Clicker 4 inverter expansion boards for TMPM4K are supported by the MCU Motor Studio software, which can be downloaded from the Toshiba website. Simple, well-structured and versatile, the software consists of two core components: a motor control PC tool for parameter configuration, drive control, real-time logging and diagnostics via a high-speed UART, and a scalable, Fully configured M4K MCU dedicated motor control firmware.