Motor driver ICs FDD spindle motor driver BA6492BFS The BA6492BFS is a one-chip IC designed for driving FDD spindle motors. This high-performance IC employs a 3-phase, full-wave soft switching drive system, and contains a digital servo, an index amplifier, two monostable multivibrator elements, and a power save circuit. The compactly packaged IC reduces the number of external components required. Applications Floppy disk drivers Features 1) 3-phase, full-wave soft switching drive system. 2) Digital servo circuit. 3) Power save circuit. 4) Hall power supply switch. 5) Motor speed changeable. 6) Index amplifier. Built-in 2 monostable multivibrator. Absolute maximum ratings (Ta = 25C) Recommended operating conditions (Ta = 25C) 555 Motor driver ICs Block diagram 556 BA6492BFS Motor driver ICs BA6492BFS Pin descriptions 557 Motor driver ICs BA6492BFS Input / output circuits (1) Monostable multivibrator element timing setting (3, 4 pin) (2) Constant voltage output (5 pin) (3) Speed discriminator output (6 pin) (4) Integrating amplifier (7, 8 pin) (5) Motor output (1115 pin) (6) Hall bias (16 pin) 558 Motor driver ICs (7) Hall input (1722 pin) (9) FG amplifier (2527 pin) BA6492BFS (8) Index input (23, 24 pin) (10) Speed control (29 pin) (11) External clock input (30 pin) (12) Start / stop (31 pin) (13) Timing output (32 pin) 559 Motor driver ICs Electrical characteristics (unless otherwise noted, Ta = 25C, VCC = 5V) 560 BA6492BFS Motor driver ICs FCircuit operation (1) Motor drive circuits The motor driver employs a 3-phase, full-wave soft switching current drive system, in which the rotor position is sensed by Hall elements. The motor drive current is sensed by a small resistor (RNF). The total drive current is controlled and limited by sensing the voltage developed across this resistor. The motor drive circuit consists of Hall amplifiers, an amplitude control circuit, a driver, an error amplifier, and a current feedback amplifier (Fig. 14). The waveforms of different steps along the signal path from the Hall elements to the motor driver output are shown in Fig. 15. The Hall amplifiers receive the Hall elements voltage signals as differential inputs. Next, by deducting the voltage signal of Hall elements 2 from the voltage signal of Hall elements 1, current signal H1, which has a phase 30 degrees ahead of Hall elements 1, is created. Current signals H2 and H3 are created likewise. The amplitude control circuit then amplifies the H1, H2, and H3 signals according to the current feedback amplifier signal. Then, drive current signals are produced at A1, A2, and A3 by applying a constant magnification factor. Because a soft switching system is employed, the drive current has low noise and a low total current ripple. The total drive current is controlled by the error amplifier input voltage. The error amplifier has a voltage gain of about –11dB (a factor of 0.28). The current feedback amplifier regulates the total drive current, so that the error amplifier output voltage (V1) becomes equal to the VRNF voltage, which has been voltage-converted from the total drive current through the RNF pin. If V1 exceeds the current limiter voltage (Vcl), the constant voltage Vcl takes precedence, and a current limit is provided at the level of Vcl / RNF. The current feedback amplifier tends to oscillate because it receives all the feedback with a gain of 0dB. To prevent this oscillation, connect an external capacitor to the CNF pin for phase compensation and for reducing the high frequency gain. (2) Speed control circuit The speed control circuit is a non-adjustable digital servo system that uses a frequency locked loop (FLL). The circuit consists of an 1 / 2 frequency divider, an FG amplifier, and a speed discriminator (Fig. 16). An internal reference clock is generated from an external BA6492BFS clock signal input. The 1 / 2 frequency divider reduces the frequency of the OSC signal. The FG amplifier amplifies the minute voltage generated by the motor FG pattern and produces a rectangular-shaped speed signal. The FG amplifier gain (GFG = 42dB, typical) is determined by the internal resistance ratio. For noise filtering, a high-pass filter is given by C3 and a resistor of 1.6kΩ (typical), and a low-pass filter is given by C4 and a resistor of 200kΩ (typical). The cutoff frequencies of high-pass and low-pass filters (fH and fL, respectively) are given by: fH= 2π 1 1.6kΩ fL= C3 2π 1 200kΩ C4 The C3 and C4 capacitances should be set so as to satisfy the following relationship: fHtfFGtfL where fFG is the FG frequency. Note that the FG amplifier inputs have a hysteresis. The speed discriminator divides the reference clock and compares it with the reference frequency, and then outputs an error pulse according to the frequency difference. The motor rotational speed N is given by: N=60 S fosc n S 1 z (1) fosc is the reference clock frequency, n is (speed discriminator count) 2, z is the FG tooth number. The discriminator count depends on the speed control pin voltage. The integrator flattens out the error pulse of the speed discriminator and creates a control signal for the motor drive circuit (Fig. 17). 561 Motor driver ICs (3) Index signal circuit The index signal circuit receives and amplifies differential inputs of Hall device signals. The Hall inputs have a hysteresis. The monostable multivibrator devices create a delay time from the zero-cross point, and outputs a pulse after the delay time. The delay time and the pulse width can be set arbitrarily with the time constant of the external CR. The following equations are given for the delay times T1, T2, and T3 for the speed control pin voltage levels of LOW, HIGH, and MEDIUM, respectively: T1 1.35 C5 VR [sec] (Typ.) C5 VR [sec] (Typ.) T2 1.13 C5 VR [sec] (Typ.) T3 0.68 105 C4 [sec] (Typ.) T4 2.14 T1 / T2 = 1.2 (Typ.) T1 / T3 = 2.0 (Typ.) The delay angle remains constant regardless of changes in the motor speed. 562 BA6492BFS (4) Other circuits The start / stop circuit puts the IC to the operational state when the control pin is LOW, and to the standby state (circuit current is nearly zero) when the control pin is HIGH. The Hall elements bias switch, which is linked to the start / stop circuit, is turned off during the standby state, so that the Hall elements current is shut down. The thermal shutdown circuit shuts down the IC currents when the chip junction temperature is increased to about 175C (typical). The thermal shutdown circuit is deactivated when the temperature drops to about 20C (typical). Motor driver ICs BA6492BFS Circuit operation 563 Motor driver ICs 564 BA6492BFS Motor driver ICs BA6492BFS Application example Operation notes (1) Thermal shutdown circuit This circuit shuts down all the IC currents when the chip junction temperature is increased to about 175C (typical). The circuit is deactivated when the temperature drops to about 155C (typical). (2) Hall elements connection Hall elements can be connected in either series or paral- lel. When connecting in series, care must be taken not to allow the Hall output to exceed the Hall common-mode input range. (3) Hall input level Switching noise may occur if the Hall input voltage (1722 pin) is too high. Differential inputs of about 100mV (peak to peak) are recommended. 565 Motor driver ICs (4) Driver ground pin (pin 14) Pin 14, which is the motor current ground pin, is not connected to the signal ground pins (pin 1 and 2). Design a proper conductor pattern in consideration of the motor current that flows through pin 14. Electrical characteristic curves 566 BA6492BFS (5) External clock For the external clock, make sure that the pin30 voltage is always less than VCC and more than the ground voltage. Motor driver ICs BA6492BFS External dimensions (Units: mm) 567