Qorvo's PAC52422 expands Qorvo's broad portfolio of full-featured Power Application Controller® (PAC) products - highly optimized System On Chip (SOC) for controlling and powering next generation smart energy appliances, devices, and equipment – by adding new features such as Cycle By Cycle (CBC), Enhanced Sample And Hold (S&H), Windowed Watchdog Timer, and more.
This application controller integrates a 50MHz Arm® Cortex®-M0 32-bit microcontroller core with Qorvo's proprietary and patent-pending Multi-Mode Power Manager™, Configurable Analog Front End™, and Application Specific Power Drivers™ to form the most compact microcontroller-based power and general purpose application systems.
The product's microcontroller features up to 32kB of embedded FLASH and 8kB of SRAM memory, a high-speed 10-bit, 1 MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with dual auto-sampling sequencers, 5V/3.3V I/Os, flexible clock sources, timers, a versatile 15-channel PWM engine, and several serial interfaces.
Power Supply Input Voltage(V) | 5.2 to 44 |
Power Supply Topology | 44 V Buck |
Gate Drivers (High-Side) | 3 @ 44 V - 1.2 A Source / 1.8 A Sink |
Gate Drivers (Low-Side) | 3 @ 20 V - 1.2 A Source / 1.8 A Sink |
Microcontroller | 50 MHz ARM Cortex M0 |
MCU Flash(KB) | 32 |
MCU SRAM(KB) | 8 |
MCU ADC | 10 bits 1 MSPS SAR |
MCU GPIOs | 13 Digital GPIO's (3.3 V and 5 V tolerant) + 10 AIOx GPIO's |
MCU PWMs | 4 |
Serial Interfaces | UART/SPI, I2C |
Signal Chain Diff Amps | 3 |
Signal Chain Single Amps | 4 |
Signal Chain ADC Channels | 10 |
Package Type | TQFN, 48-pin |
Package(mm) | 6.0 x 6.0 |
RoHS | Yes |
Lead Free | Yes |
Halogen Free | Yes |
ITAR Restricted | No |
ECCN | EAR99 |
Qorvo's PAC52422EVK1 development platform is a complete hardware solution enabling users not only to evaluate the PAC52422 device, but also develop power applications revolving around this powerful and versatile ARM® Cortex®-M0 based micro-controller. The module contains a PAC52422 Power Application Controller (MCU) and its internal peripherals, including new features such as Cycle By Cycle PWM truncation, AIO7/8/9 Sample And Hold, Windowed Watchdog Timer, enhanced gate drive strength, as well as enhanced low Hibernate current.
To aid in the application development the PAC52422EVK1 offers access to each and every one of the PAC52422 device's signals by means of a series of female header connectors.
The PAC52422EVK1 can be used with various Graphical User Interface (GUI) software suites to externally control particular application features over the PAC52422 UART Interface. Provided with the development platform, the ET-UARTSWD module adds fully isolated USB to UART Virtual COMM Port, as well as access to the PAC52422’s SWD port through a fully isolated bidirectional channel which allows most SWD program/debug modules to interconnect with the system.
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.
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
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.
PAC52xx BLDC Application Firmware Version: v2.4.0 |
Installer for the PAC52xx BLDC application firmware, which implements sensored BLDC and sensorless BEMF motor control on all members of the PAC52xx 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: v4.5.0 |
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. |
PAC52xx Software Development Kit Version: v2.8.2 |
Installer for the PAC52xx Software Development Kit (SDK) that provides register level definitions and peripheral driver APIs for developing Arm M0 application firmware on all PAC52xx devices. The PAC52xx SDK is a unified SDK that supports Keil µVision IDE, IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm (EWARM) IDE, and GCC tool chains. |
PAC52xx Example Code Version: 2.0.0 |
Installer for the PAC52xx Example Code that provides a simple source code example for getting started with the following IDE projects: Keil MDK (µVision), IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm (EWARM), and Eclipse. |
PAC52xx ActiveFlashLight™ Bootloader Version: v1.2.1 |
Installer for the PAC52xx ActiveFlashLight™ Bootloader that provides source code and example projects for in-system FLASH programming using the UART peripheral. Supported IDEs are Keil MDK (µVision), IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm (EWARM), and Eclipse. |
Development of application firmware for PAC52xx Arm® Cortex® M0 is made easy with standard integrated development environments (IDEs). Several of the most popular IDEs contain support for PAC52xx devices including Keil uVision, and IAR Systems Embedded Workbench for Arm®. Eclipse development is possible using J-Link by downloading and installing the "Eclipse with PAC support" package.
PAC52xx Keil IDE Guide Version: 2018-08-21 |
Guide for installing Keil uVision for development of PAC52xx application firmware. |
PAC52xx Keil .pack v1.0.9 to v2.0.0 upgrade Version: 2018-02-22 |
Guide for upgrading the Keil uVision PAC52xx pack from v1.0.9 to v2.0.0. |
PAC IAR Support Version: 2019-07-31 |
PAC IAR Systems Embedded Workbench IDE installation guide and patches. |
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: 2019-10-23 |
PAC support files for Segger J-Link debuggers. |
OpenOCD Support Version: 1.0.1 2020-11-02 |
PAC support files for miscellaneous debuggers. |
The EP5223PT1-1 reference design shows how the PAC5223 can be used to implement a high-current power tool application such as a battery-operated drill in a compact form-factor. This design is a 2.5cmx6cm PCB that can support up to 25A RMS and a peak current of 200W to 300W with the proper heat-sinking. Since the PAC5223 provides just the controller function, by selecting different FETs and component values, the power output of this design could be increased to much higher levels for different application requirements.
The "TinyBLDC" reference design shows how the PAC5223 may be used to implement an Embedded Speed Controller (ESC) for drone and RC applications. This reference design supports BLDC with a single current shunt for motor current and can run up to 20V with an RMS output current of 17A. Since the PAC5223 provides just the controller function, by selecting different FETs and component values, the power output of this design could be increased to much higher levels for different application requirements.
The "TinyFOC" reference design shows how the PAC5223 may be used to implement an Embedded Speed Controller (ESC) for drone and RC applications. This reference design supports FOC with three phase current shunts for motor current and can run up to 20V with an RMS output current of 17A. Since the PAC5223 provides just the controller function, by selecting different FETs and component values, the power output of this design could be increased to much higher levels for different application requirements.