Actel has introduced two plug-in daughter cards developed to manage human machine interface (HMI) and miniature motor control functionality. The new HMI Daughter Card and the Motor Control Daughter Card are offered as plug-ins to Actel's IGLOO Icicle Kit. Co-developed with partners Ishnatek and Avnet Memec, the new HMI and miniature motor control solutions provide a platform-based design approach, enabling designers to quickly and easily address changing requirements, implement custom algorithms, and make design changes through device reprogramming.
The HMI Daughter Card demonstrates keypad control, brightness control for white LEDs, colour mixing for red, green blue (RGB) LEDs and tone generation, which is beneficial for applications like smart phones, portable gaming consoles and remote control devices. The Motor Control Daughter Card demonstrates brushless DC and stepper motor control and can support a variety of functions often found in portable medical, industrial and consumer applications, such as respirators, infusion and volumetric pumps, smart phones and security cameras. A low-power platform for portable design, the 5µW IGLOO FPGAs can absorb additional glue logic and multiple functions - from storage and display to control - into a single chip, thereby reducing bill of materials, board area, power consumption and cost. The HMI and motor control daughter cards can be purchased from Avnet's Design Resource Center.
