PAC5527

    48 V BLDC Motor Controller and Driver

    Key Features

    • Fully programmable 150 MHz Arm® Cortex-M4F®
    • 128 kB flash, 32 kB SRAM
    • Integrated 48 V charge pump DC/DC
    • Integrated buck-boost DC/DC for regulated low-side gate drive
    • Integrated programmable-current gate drivers (60 mA to 1 A)
    • Integrated PGA (3 differential, 4 single-ended)
    • Integrated DACs and comparators
    • UART, CAN, I2C and SPI serial interfaces
    • Extremely low total hibernate mode
    • Minimal external components
    • 6x6mm, 48-pin QFN

    Qorvo's PAC5527 belongs to Qorvo's Power Application Controller (PAC) family. This family features highly-optimized SOC devices that can implement BLDC or PMSM programmable motor controller and driver functionality in a single integrated IC.

    The product integrates a high-performance, high-memory FLASH-based 150MHz Arm® Cortex-M4F®, power management, high-side and low-side gate drivers and signal conditioning components in a single product.

    PAC5527 is optimized for high-performance battery-powered BLDC motor control applications up to 24V.

    Typical Applications

      • High-Performance Power Tools (up to 24V)
      • 12 V Server or DC Fans
      • Drones / Remote-Controlled (RC) Systems
    Power Supply Input Voltage(V) 6 to 48
    Power Supply Topology 48 V Charge Pump
    Gate Drivers (High-Side) 3 (programmable)
    Gate Drivers (Low-Side) 3 (programmable)
    Microcontroller 150 MHz ARM® Cortex®-M4F
    MCU Flash(KB) 128
    MCU SRAM(KB) 32
    MCU ADC 12b, 2.5MSPS SAR
    MCU GPIOs 16
    MCU PWMs 16
    Serial Interfaces USART (3), I2C, CAN
    Signal Chain Diff Amps 3
    Signal Chain Single Amps 4
    Signal Chain ADC Channels 11
    Package Type QFN, 48-pin
    Package(mm) 6 x 6
    RoHS Yes
    Lead Free Yes
    Halogen Free Yes
    ITAR Restricted No
    ECCN EAR99

    PAC5527EVK1 Evaluation Kit

    PAC5527EVK1

    Qorvo's PAC5527EVK1 evaluation kit is a complete hardware solution enabling users to evaluate the PAC5527 device, but also develop motor control applications revolving around the powerful and versatile 150MHz Arm® Cortex® -M4F based MCU. This evaluation kit is a motor controller and driver evaluation PCB, that uses the PAC5527 Power Application Controller®.

    To aid in evaluation and application development the PAC5527EVK1 offers access to all of the PAC5527 device's signals by means of a series of female header connectors.

    PAC5527EVK1 User's Guide

    PAC5527EVK1 Schematics, Layout, BOM, Gerber Files

    PAC5527EVK1 Altium Project Files

    Supporting Evaluation Tools

    ET-UARTSWD

    The ET-UARTSWD adapter is the preferred adapter for evaluation of PAC devices/firmware and combines a USB to UART adapter with SWD debugger connector adaptation into a single board with isolation. The ET-UARTISO-1 adapter provides only the USB to UART adapter with isolation for Qorvo application GUI communications.

    ET-UARTSWD

    The ET-UARTSWD isolated communications and debugging interface unifies two modules into one. Previously, interfacing a PC Computer to any of Qorvo's PAC5xxx Evaluation Modules required one module to enable UART based serial communications and a second module to allow for in-system debugging and FLASH memory programing.

    Download ET-UARTSWD User Manual

    PAC5xxx Flash Programmer Tools

    Qorvo has partnered with Flash Programmer solution providers to support our Intelligent Motor Control PAC product families. These proven tools are suitable for emerging and high volume product manufacturing. Both package level (socketed) and board level Flash programming solutions are available.

    Qorvo will support other vendors familiar with Arm® Serial Wire Debug (SWD) protocol to add PAC product compatibility on their existing Flash programmer platforms. For details, please contact Qorvo Sales.

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    PAC55xx Software

    PAC55xx BLDC Application Firmware
    Version: V2.3.1
    Installer for the PAC55xx BLDC application firmware, which implements sensored BLDC and sensorless BEMF motor control on all members of the PAC55xx family. The installer contains example application source code, Windows graphical user interface (GUI), and documentation to allow the user to configure the system to work with their target motor. Project files for IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm (EWARM) and Keil uVision are included.
    PAC FOC Application Firmware
    Version: v4.4.3
    Installer for the PAC FOC application firmware designed to show case motor control using sensorless Field Oriented Control (FOC) on all PAC devices. The installer contains example FOC application source code, Windows graphical user interface (GUI), and documentation to allow the user to configure the system to work with their target motor. Project files for IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm® (EWARM), Keil uVision and Eclipse are included. The FOC application provides a configurable set of features to meet many different application requirements such as sensorless position/speed estimator, start-in-motion (SIM), three or single shunt operation, open phase detection (OPD), field weakening and others.
    PAC55xx Software Development Kit
    Version: v1.8.0
    Installer for the PAC55xx Software Development Kit (SDK) that provides register level definitions and peripheral driver APIs for developing Arm M4 application firmware on all PAC55xx devices. The PAC55xx SDK is a unified SDK that supports Keil µVision IDE, IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm (EWARM) IDE, and GCC tool chains.
    PAC55xx Example Code
    Version: v1.5.0
    Installer for the PAC55xx Example Code that provides source code examples for using the PAC55xx peripherals. IDE projects are provided for Keil MDK (µVision), IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm (EWARM), and Eclipse.
    PAC55xx ActiveFlashLight™ Bootloader
    Version: v1.0.0
    Installer for the PAC55xx ActiveFlashLight™ Bootloader that provides source code and example projects for in-system FLASH programming using a UART peripheral. Supported IDEs are Keil MDK (µVision), IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm (EWARM), and Eclipse.
    PAC55xx CANopen Device Driver Installer for the PAC55xx CANopen device driver that provides source code for support of the CANopen protocol stack using the PAC55xx family of devices. Supported IDEs are Keil MDK (µVision), IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm (EWARM), and Eclipse.

    PAC55xx IDE Support

    Development of application firmware for PAC55xx Arm® Cortex® M4 is made easy with standard integrated development environments (IDEs). PAC55xx can be used with the most popular integrated IDEs including Keil MDK(uVision), IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm, and Eclipse.

    PAC55xx Keil Support
    Version: 2018-06-18
    Support files for developing PAC55xx firmware with Keil MDK (uVision).
    PAC IAR Support
    Version: 2019-07-31
    Support files for developing PAC firmware with IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm
    Eclipse with PAC support
    Version: v1.1.0 2019-03-27
    Installer for Eclipse and supporting plugins for development on the PAC family of devices.
    Segger J-Link Support
    Version: 2021-10-23
    PAC support files for Segger J-Link debuggers.
    OpenOCD Support
    Version: 1.0.1 2020-11-02
    PAC support files for miscellaneous debuggers.