TI Korea (CEO Kent Chon, www.ti.com/ww/kr ) April 14, 2014 – TI (CEO Kent Chon) announced the C2000™ MCU Resolver Kit, the industry's first programmable microcontroller (MCU) solution for resolver-digital decoding. A resolver refers to an analog rotary electrical transformer. Therefore, it requires circuits designed for specific applications to convert digital signals so that they can be used by digital processors within control systems. These circuits tend to be expensive and take up a lot of space. However, TI's new C2000 MCU Resolver Kit demonstrates to designers how to implement digital conversion using software on the programmable C2000 MCU, thereby enabling system cost and space reduction in various industrial applications, including robotics, servo drives, automation, avionics, and transportation.

The C2000 MCU Resolver Kit simplifies systems and reduces costs by replacing expensive resolver-to-digital converter chipsets with a low-cost MCU. Furthermore, it extends functionality by allowing the MCU to perform real-time, software-programmable functions beyond resolver-to-digital decoding, such as additional analog-to-digital converter (ADC) sampling and processing, encoder and Hall interfaces, DSP front-ends, state logic, functional safety support tasks, and full control loops. Additionally, it provides complete hardware and can be configured with a C2000 controlCARD-compatible PCB. This includes on-board JTAG emulation for software debugging, a resolver interface with filtering capabilities, UART and SPI interfaces, four digital-to-analog converter (DAC) outputs for debugging, and a 15V power supply.

It includes software and hardware development packages and supports four types of software projects running on three C2000 controlCARDs (all available for individual purchase): TMDSCNCD28335 (floating point), TMDSCNCD28035 (fixed point or parallel CLA (control law accelerator)), and TMDSCNCD28027 (fixed point).