New product: STSPIN820 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier with 1/256 microstepping

Posted by Jan on 27 November 2018
Tags: new products

We have yet another new stepper motor driver carrier in our popular 16-pin, 0.6″ × 0.8″ form factor, this time for STMicro’s STSPIN820, which offers 1/256 step microstepping! ST actually has their own similar evaluation board, the EVALSP820-XS, but the STSPIN820 chip has a non-inverted Enable input, which is inverted compared to most other stepper motor driver ICs out there, and they expose the pin that way on their version of the board. We have thoughtfully added a transistor-based inverter so that our board is more likely to work as a drop-in replacement (or upgrade!) for the stepper driver boards you already have. In our tests, the Pololu carrier supported a substantially higher maximum current than the ST eval board (around 900 mA compared to 720 mA, probably due to our board having four layers vs. two layers for the ST eval board), and as of this writing (27 November 2018), our board is also priced lower.

You can see the full schematic for all the details (this schematic is also available as a downloadable pdf (109k pdf)):

Schematic diagram of the STSPIN820 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier.

With our release earlier in November of compact carriers for Toshiba’s TB67S249FTG and TB67S279FTG stepper motor drivers, we now offer ten different stepper motor driver modules in this compact size:


A4988
(original)

A4988,
Black Ed.

DRV8825

DRV8834

DRV8880

MP6500,
Pot. CC

MP6500,
Digital CC

TB67S279­FTG

TB67S249­FTG

STSPIN­820
Driver chip: A4988 DRV8825 DRV8834 DRV8880 MP6500 TB67S279­FTG TB67S249­FTG STSPIN­820
Min operating voltage: 8 V 8.2 V 2.5 V 6.5 V 4.5 V 10 V 10 V 7 V
Max operating voltage: 35 V 45 V 10.8 V 45 V 35 V 47 V 47 V 45 V
Max continuous current per phase:(1) 1 A 1.2 A 1.5 A 1.5 A 1 A 1.5 A 1.1 A 1.6 A 0.9 A
Peak current per phase:(2) 2 A 2.2 A 2 A 1.6 A 2.5 A 2 A 2 A 4.5 A 1.5 A
Microstepping down to: 1/16 1/32 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/32 1/32 1/256
Board layer count: 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Special features: high current low-voltage
operation,
high current
AutoTune,
digital current
reduction
high current digital current
control,
high current
Auto Gain Control,
ADMD,
high max voltage
Auto Gain Control,
ADMD,
high max voltage,
high current
128 and 256
microsteps
1-piece price: $13.95 $14.95 $15.95 $7.95 $8.95 $6.95 $6.95 $10.75 $12.95 $14.95
1 On Pololu carrier board, at room temperature, and without additional cooling.
2 Maximum theoretical current based on components on the board (additional cooling required).

As with all of our new products this year, we are offering an introductory special. The first 100 customers that use coupon code STSPIN820INTRO can get up to five units at just $5 each.

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