The TMC8460-EVAL is a reference design and an evaluation platform for TMC8460-BC EtherCAT slave controller. The board can be used as part of Landungsbrücke evaluation-platform or standalone. It can also be combined with Landungsbrücke-stepper-driver boards. For Diagnosis all signals between MCU and TMC8460-EVAL are accessible with probes on the Eselsbrücke bridgeboard. TMC8460 is the first EtherCAT slave controller IC to incorporate PWM and Step/Dir I/O peripherals that do not require routing through the firmware of an application processor, eliminating latency for applications requiring real-time response. The TMC8460 extends feature set of the core EtherCAT technology with a broad array of peripherals and features an integrated smart peripherals block accessible from an MCU or EtherCAT master and in addition to a PWM unit and Step/Dir interface, an SPI master and encoder interface that can be directly mapped to the PDO (Process Data Object) by the memory manager.
5V logic supply
85mm length
79mm width
EtherCAT, a/b/n incremental, PWM, SPI, step / direction interfaces
Additionally required is a power supply (max. 24V)
