Microstep Driver for up to 1.5A
The TMC236 is a smart power microstepping driver for bipolar stepper motors. It provides an SPI™ interface as well as the classical analog/digital control. A full set of protection and diagnostic features makes this device very rugged. The integrated low-RDS-ON TrenchFET® power MOSFETs give an extremely high efficiency and allow driving of a high motor current of up to 1.5A per phase without cooling measures even at high environment temperatures.
MAIN CHAR ACTERISTICS
• full protection and diagnostics
• low power dissipation
• 16 times microstepping via SPI,
64 times using additional shift register,
even more via analog control
• mixed decay for smooth operation
• programmable slope control for low EME
• internal or external chopper clock
• standby and shutdown mode
• easy-to-use SPI™ interface
• classical analog interface
• up to 1500 mA coil current (peak)
• 7V to 34V motor supply (TMC236A)
• 3.3V or 5V operation for digital part
• standard PQFP-44 package
• RoHS compliant