Motor drivers: Integration,

performance, efficiency
leading in motion control

Open, scalable, flexible solutions answer to every challenge of motor

control, ensuring fast and easy design
Designing motor control
applications becomes much
easier with the outstanding
performance, features and
support of STs complete
portfolio of motor drivers:
dSPIN, flexSPIN, easySPIN and
powerSPIN families.
These products are scalable,
reliable and cost effective. They
are designed with an extensive
diagnostics capability, and are
also fully robust and protected.
Multi-package options address
a variety of design challenges
such as space and thermal
constraints.

KEY FEATURES
Multi-package options to cover a variety

of design requirements from board space

constraints to thermally challenging
environments
Easier development with reference
designs, evaluation boards and a
development environment which includes
thermal analysis
Extensive diagnostic capability, robust
and fully protected to further reduce the
number of external components, the cost
and complexity
Wide operating voltage, current and
temperature ranges supporting most
application needs

KEY APPLICATIONS
Vending machines
Point of sale (POS)
Automatic Teller machines (ATM)
Security cameras
Stage lighting
Printers
Industrial robotics
Industrial automation
Textile equipment

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LEADING IN MOTOR CONTROL DESIGN

powerSPIN: Integrated PWM controller and DMOS bridge for brush DC, bipolar stepper and permanent-magnet 3-phase brushless motors,
offering non-dissipative overcurrent detection.
easySPIN: Best trade-off between performance and cost for microstepping applications. No external shunts required due to an innovative
current-mode scheme.

FlexSPIN: Highly integrated for cost-driven applications such as printers. Controls and drives multi-motor applications (stepper and DC
simultaneously) or inverter stages with its 4 fully-configurable full-bridge drivers.
dSPIN: New state-of-the-art platform for stepper motor drives, a quantum leap in micro-stepping. Substitutes expensive DSP, analog and power
components with a single IC. Its fully-digital motion engine with SPI interface controls the stepper motor with up to 128 microsteps, and the
innovative voltage-mode technique allows for unprecedented motion smoothness.

cSPIN: SPI advanced controller for stepper applications up to 85 V, providing fully digital control of the motion through speed profile generation
and positioning calculations. It integrates a dual full bridge gate driver for external MOSFETs with embedded non-dissipative overcurrent
protection.
powerSTEP: system in package integrating 8 N-channel 16 m MOSFETs for stepper applications up to 85 V with a SPI programmable
controller, providing fully digital control of the motion through speed profile generation and positioning calculations.
PowerSTEP*
PowerSTEP01
cSPIN
L6480, L6482

flexSPIN

powerSPIN
L62xx, L62xQ
DC, BLDC and
stepper motor
driver
Full set of
protections

easySPIN
L6474
Microstepping
L62xx, L62xQ
driver
Adaptive decay
SPI-programmable,
diagnostics

L6460
DC and
Microstepping
driver
4 configurable full
bridge drivers
DC-DC, GPIO,
OP-Amp,
DAC, ADC

System in package:
microstepping
controller
and 8 N-channel
16 m
MOSFETs 85 V

L6470, L6472

Microstepping
controller
for 8 external
MOSFETs 85 V

Digital core for

motion control

Digital core for

motion control

Digital core for

motion control

SPI -programmable,
diagnostics

SPI -programmable,
diagnostics

dSPIN

Microstepping
driver
SPI -programmable,
diagnostics

Performance and integration

* coming soon

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