Description
The AWD8436 is a flexible microstepping stepper motor driver. It is designed to operate bipolar stepper motor with up to 1/256th step mode for mobile phones, tablets, and other automated equipment applications. The device can be controlled by simple STEP/DIR interface allowing easy interfacing to controller circuits with I2C Interface. The output block of each H-bridge driver consists of N-channel and P-channel power MOSFETs configured as full H-bridges to drive the motor windings.
AWD8436 allows configuration of the motor in full-step up to 1/256th step modes. Decay mode is configurable so that adaptive decay, slow decay, fast decay, and mixed decay can be used. A low power sleep mode is provided to achieve very-low quiescent current draw.
AWD8436 is capable of driving up to 1.4A (Full Scale) or 1A (RMS) current per H-Bridge
The device is equipped with stall detection function. An interrupt will be triggered and reported when the set threshold is exceeded. It can also be configured to stop output upon a single stall event. Output will resume only after the stall flag is cleared via command
The device offers a complete set of protection features including UVLO, overcurrent protection, short circuit protection, Open-load detection and over temperature. Fault conditions are indicated via the nFAULT pin.