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of the three product series (XMC 1100 with 64
KB flash; XMC 1200 with 200 KB flash and
XMC 1300 with 200 KB flash). The XMC1000
motor control application kit comprises a micro
controller board with an XMC1300 and a de-
tachable Segger J-Link debug interface. A corre-
sponding motor board (12 to 24 V, up to 3 A) is
also included in the scope of delivery. The board
features a 3-phase motor (24 V, 15 W) with a
Hall sensor; a rotary encoder interface is option-
ally available. The kit also includes a power
supply (24 V, 1 A). Various motor control
schemes are supported: V/f Open Look, block-
shaped or sinusoidal commutation with Hall
sensors or sensorless, as well as field-oriented
control (FOC) with Hall sensors, encoder or
sensorless. On the software side, the development
environment DAVE as well as apps for various
motor controls are available.
LED applications are also supported with a
customized kit. The LED lighting application
kit comprises an XMC1200 microcontroller
with 200 KB flash memory and the Segger J-
Link. The scope of delivery includes two LED
boards: one colour LED card and one white
LED card. The first is equipped with three
RGB-LEDs (10 mA), DALI, DMX and RF
interfaces in addition to an ambient light
sensor. The second board comprises 20 white
LEDs in four strings (20 mA), supports DALI
and/or RF and, besides the ambient light
sensor, also offers a temperature sensor.
The XMC 2Go, equipped with the XMC1100,
is maybe the smallest, fully featured micro-
controller evaluation kit of the world. The
XMC 2Go with the XMC1100 microcontroller
is a new budget-priced evaluation board
equipped with an ARM Cortex-M0 CPU run-
ning on 32 MHz, 64 KB flash and 16 KB RAM.
The XMC 2Go has a complete set of on-board
devices, including an on-board debugger to
immediately start code development. Designers
can build their own application and gadget
with the XMC 2Go - it fits perfectly fine on a
breadboard. The kits includes an on-board J-
Link lite debugger (realized with XMC4200
microcontroller), Power over USB (Micro USB)
ESD and reverse current protection, 2 x user
LED and a Pin Header 2x8 Pins suitable for a
breadboard.
Figure 5. Application-Kit to Go - extremely
small kit based on the XMC 1100
Product News
LDRA: tool suite to verify highly constrained,
low-power embedded applications
LDRA has enhanced the ability of the LDRA tool
suite to scale down to meet the increasing number
of highly constrained, minimal-footprint
architectures used in today’s safety-critical and
security-critical applications. With many systems
now being connected, companies must enforce
high-quality code, fully test and verify systems,
and proactively prevent application vulnerabilities.
Achieving indepth analysis on a highly constrained
microcontroller is not easy. Verification tools often
exceed the bandwidth and memory resources of
such microcontrollers, causing the analysis to
crash or overload the system such that the target
no longer functions as intended and system data
becomes unreliable.
Kithara: real-time networking with
EtherCAT automation protocol
Kithara Software has announced the successful
implementation of the EtherCAT Automation
Protocol into its product range, making it possible
to set up plant-wide networks in real-time. The
EAP, now integrated into Kithara’s real-time ex-
tension »RealTime Suite«, enables the command
level to access and consequently analyze, control
and regulate every device connected to the network
from a single computer in real-time. This may
include, for example, all PC-based controls, ma-
chines, testing rigs, conveyor belts, robots, facilities
for quality assurance or MES (Manufacturing
Execution Systems) for remote maintenance and
central plant control.
