DAvE (Digital Application Virtual Engineer) Drive is Infineon's application code generator for the company’s 8-bit (XC886/8) and 16-bit (XC164CM/CS) MCU families. It provides initialization, configuration and driver code to ease programming. DAvE Drive helps to reduce the software development time for brushless direct current (BLDC) motor controls due to quick and easy configuration of complex peripherals. Designers of motor controls can quickly focus on application-specific software, such as the programming of washing machines or dish washers, thus allowing rapid prototyping. Compared to competitive configuration tools, the DAvE Drive software tool generates complete algorithms and does not derive from libraries. Additionally, it provides flexible code generation for customer selected motors, thus reducing system design time by about one man-year while allowing differentiation by system variations. Also, it implements block commutation as well as field-oriented control.
DAvE Drive software tool is included in the BLDC Drive Application Kit which is a modular extension of Infineon’s 8- and 16-bit Easy Kits. The combined tools comprise a complete development environment for industrial and automotive motor control applications consisting of microcontroller hardware, software, power semiconductors, and motor drive.
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