Automotive Motor Control Solutions

Complete Motor Control development kits and reference designs for rapid prototyping and evaluation of 3-phase BLDC/PMSM, 3-phase sensorless BLDC/PMSM, and 3-phase PMSM and sensorless BLDC targeting automotive and industrial applications, without the need to wait for final hardware design.

Key Differentiators

  • Broad portfolio of hardware tools
  • Supporting common motor control topologies
  • Cost-effective prototyping and evaluation platforms
  • Professional engineering support is available

Arm®-based development solutions

S32K and KEA 3-phase sensorless Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) and 3-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) development kits.

MagniV® and S12 development solutions

S12ZVML, S12ZVM, and S12G 3-phase sensorless Brushless Direct Current (BLDC), 3-phase sensorless Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM), BLDC/PMSM, and Direct Current (DC) development kits.

MPC5xxx development solutions

MPC57xx and MPC56xx 3-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) and 3-phase sensorless Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) development kits.

S32K1 Motor Control devkits

Accelerate your 3-phase electric motor control designs for BLDC motor and PMSM control applications with the compact, ready-to-use S32K1 Motor Control Development Kits.

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MPC5744P Motor Control devkit

Accelerate your 3-phase electric motor control designs for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) control applications.

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Software Ecosystem for Motor Control

Model-Based Design Toolbox (MBDT)

A comprehensive collection of tools that plug into the MATLAB® and Simulink® model-based design environment to support fast prototyping, verification and validation on NXP microcontroller-based real targets.

Automotive Math and Motor Control Library (AMMCLib)

A precompiled off-the-shelf software library with building blocks for motor control and general mathematical applications.

FreeMASTER Run-Time Debugging Tool

A user-friendly real-time debug monitor and data visualization tool that enables runtime configuration and tuning of embedded software applications.

Motor Control Application Tuning (MCAT)

A HMTL-based user-friendly graphical plug-in tool for PMSM FOC and BLDC motor control applications and real-time control structure parameter tuning through FreeMASTER debugging tool.

3-PMSM Motor Control Kit with S32K344 using MBDT Blocks

Develop a 3-phase PMSM FOC using MBDT blocks in the S32K344 MCU.

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Model-Based Design Tools for MATLAB®

Your software development processes can speed up by using the free-of-charge NXP Model-Based Design Toolboxes for MATLAB and Simulink development environments, providing full integration, an out-of-the-box configuration, and action blocks for basic/advanced features for designing complex automotive solutions.

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NXP online Safety Academy

Learn the art of safety with NXP: tools and tips to start designing more quickly for safety-critical systems.

Webinars and Trainings

Speeding up 3-phase motor control for automotive and industrial

  • Type: On-demand

Learn how to control 3-phase motors by 6-step control commutation for Brushless DC (BLDC) motors or by Field-Oriented Control (FOC) for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PM).

Building Motor Control Applications with Embedded Coder and Motor Control

  • Type: On-demand

In this webinar we will show how to design and implement motor control systems using Simulink and Embedded Coder for NXP S32 microcontrollers.

Deploying Motor Control Algorithms on NXP S32K from Simulink®

Learn how to use MathWorks’ new Motor Control Blockset™ together with Embedded Coder® to generate C code for motor control algorithms.