Microchip Technology Inc.

Ramesh Kankanala

Prasad Kulkarni

Debraj Deb

Sabarish Kalyanaranman

Embodiments of the present disclosure include a motor controller with a processor and a machine readable medium. The medium includes instructions that, when loaded and executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive an estimated or sensed speed of a motor, extract a mechanical frequency component from the estimated or sensed speed, transform the mechanical frequency into direct quadrature (DQ) domain at the mechanical frequency, control the mechanical frequency to zero, and generate a dampening signal for torque based upon the controlled mechanical frequency.

Closed loop torque compensation for compressor applications

A closed loop flux weakening method and apparatus are provided. The closed loop flux weakening apparatus may include a difference circuit that obtains a difference between a q-axis reference voltage and a q-axis voltage, a controller that converts the difference between the q-axis reference voltage and the q-axis voltage into a d-axis current of a stator of the motor, and a summation circuit that obtains a d-axis reference current by adding the d-axis current of the stator of the motor and a feed forward d-axis current of the stator of the motor.

Closed loop flux weakening for permanent magnet synchronous motors

A mixed signal integrated circuit, such as a typical microcontroller or digital signal controller (DSC), provides digital slope compensation for implementing peak current control in switched mode power supply (SMPS) systems. Simple and fast software calculations using digital values already measured require a single multiply and accumulate instruction (MAC) to determine the slope compensated peak current reference signal, I, that will be compared with the inductor/switch current to control power switch. Doing all calculations in digital form using a software program also allows easy configurability for many different applications, setting slope values by writing to a register(s) in a memory map, and to allow SMPS applications to be dynamically adaptable or configurable on the fly. The entire slope compensation function and PWM control may be self-contained within the microcontroller or DSC and without the need of external components.

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