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MOTOR CONTROL AGENT – MCA

MOTOR CONTROL AGENT - MCA​

The upper layer of Motor Control FPGA IP is AXI4-Lite IP interface for easily interconnect the Microblaze, Zynq and ZynqMP microcontrollers

Moving from h/w domain to s/w domain we have two main option: Bare Metal and Operating System.

BARE METAL​

The s/w Is fully realized with Xilinx SDK s/w tool in “C” language.

The Board Specific Platform s/w shall include the supplied s/w drivers for Motor Control FPGA IP and Power board FPGA IP 

The supported CPU are  MicroblazeZynq (Cortex-A9)ZynqMP(Cortex-A53, Cortex-R5)

the following list correspond to main implemented functions:
  • interface with Motor Control FPGA IP and Power Board FPGA IP s/w drivers for direct access to memory mapped 32-bits h/w registers
  • tiny UDP/IP application protocol with minimum usage of memory. This protocol is the server side of MCM client protocol
  • light CLI (command line interface) using UART configured with 115200,8,n,1
  • usage of single ARM core (Zynq and ZynqMP) or Microblaze
  • require h/w timer for timings (AXI timer if Microblaze, and PL timer if Zynq,ZynqMP)
  • require Ethernet MAC (AXI EthernetL if Microblaze, and PL MAC if Zynq,ZynqMP)
  • interrupt-free. No interrupt is used: the s/w works in polling mode without live loops.
  • remote flash Read/Erase/Program of QSPI memory (support single chip interface)
  • can be extended to guest embedded application functionalities
  • in case of Zynq the code can be executed in single QSPI memory or OCM with or without external DDR memory
 This s/w is supplied in open source code and can be used and modified if used with QDESYS IP

LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM​

  • In Linux operating system the access to FPGA PL and h/w resources require a kernel driver.

The AMD/Xilinx PetaLinux Tools offer a simply procedure to create a FPGA Linux boot file and root file system getting h/w platform information from Petalinux BSP and and FPGA PL project achitecture from Vivado HDF file (handoff file from Vivado to Vitis).

 QDESYS supply the following s/w items:

  • qmfoc.ko : dynamic loadable kernel module.
  • libqmfoc.so :  shared library
  • qmfocctl : utility program
 qmfoc.ko features
  • feeds internal data structure and get s/w resources from Kernel according Linux device-tree generated by petalinux tools.
  • implement UDP/IP server protocol compatible with MCA Bare Metal s/w
  • direct access to FPGA PL AXI-bus motor control IP’s trough Linux interface: open(), close(), ioctl() 
  • background thread function for periodic process such as read temperatures and s/w watch-dog to monitor application healty
libqmfoc.so features
  • read/write XML file for motor configuration
  • math compiler to convert engineering parameter into motor control FPGA IP h/w register 
  • configuration of qmfoc.ko driver with Vivado HDF file (alternative to device-tree mode)
  • export of function compatible with remote MCA GUI DLL functions
  • function wrapper for python. 
qmfocctl features
  • program qmfoc.ko with Vivado HDF file