Introducing the FPGA Motor Drive Starter Kit: Powering Your System-on-Module

AMD has recently unveiled a motor driver starter kit designed for its Kria K24 system-on-module. The Kria K24 system-on-module is built around a Zynq UltraScale+ IC and measures 60 x 42 x 11mm. The kit, known as KD240 drives starter kit, includes the module itself, a carrier card, and a heat sink.

The kit comes equipped with 2Gbyte (2chan x 256Mbit x 16bit/chan) of LPDDR4, as well as a 512Mbit QSPI primary boot memory backed by a MicroSD card secondary boot memory. Secure boot is handled by the main IC's hardware root-of-trust, and an Infineon TPM2.0 IC is also included.

"The carrier card includes a power solution, three Ethernet interfaces, a CAN interface, a microSD card, a three-phase power inverter, and multiple analog-to-digital converter channels," stated distributor Mouser, which is carrying the kit. One of the Ethernet ports is TSN (time-sensitive networking) enabled, and there are also connections for RS-485, USB 3.0, and quadrature encoders (single-ended and differential). A 12-pin connector is provided for Pmod-compatible sensors.

Terminal blocks are provided for connecting a torque sensor, the three-phase motor, and a brake control. It is important to note that while industrially-rated Kria K24 system-on-modules are available, the module provided with the kit (image left, heatsink removed) is only intended for development purposes and should not be used in final products.

For more information about the KD240 programmable motor drive development kit, you can visit Mouser's product page.