This reference design demonstrates a high-resolution, absolute inductive angle encoder. A rotating conductive target printed circuit board (PCB) forms part of the design. The stationary PCB includes excitation and Nonius receiver coils as well as dual contactless inductive sensor front-ends with an inductor-capacitor (LC) oscillator and sine-cosine interfaces. An Arm® Cortex®-M0 microcontroller (MCU) with 4MSPS analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) calculates the absolute angle.
Features
- Absolute angle resolution 16.6 effective number of bits (ENOB), static angle accuracy < 0.04°, very low latency of 9.6μs
- 58mm diameter conductive target and sense PCB with two Nonius coils at 16 and 15 periods per turn enable a low-height design
- Immunity to stray magnetic fields enables resolver replacement at lower system cost, lower power consumption < 500mW, and higher accuracy
- Integrated analog front-end IC for contactless inductive position sensing removes the need for magnets, lowering system cost
- MCU with integrated dual 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), oversampling and trigonometric math accelerator help increase resolution and reduce system cost