Let’s take a closer look at the dual axis plus power factor correction baseboard. The baseboard is designed to provide low power, low voltage development of a PFC plus motor control system. The power factor correction stage takes 10-14V of AC input and outputs up to 24V of regulated DC output at 100W. From the PFC stage the board draws all the power it needs to power the Piccolo MCU and other board components. The board can also bypass the PFC stage completely and operate off of a DC input. The baseboard leverages TI’s advanced analog in the two motor control stages. The motor control stages are based around the DRV8402, a single chip full bridge motor driver capable of outputting up to 250W at up to 96% efficiency. The baseboard limits this to 40W due to size considerations. Coupled with these driver chips are high speed Opamps for current sensing. Finally, the board uses TI’s high speed digital isolators to provide fully isolated onboard USB JTAG emulation as well as an isolate JTAG connector for an external emulator. Thus, customers can connect to the Piccolo microcontroller, download code, and start developing without any additional hardware.