STEVAL-VNH5180A:VNH5180A Evaluation Board

STEVAL-VNH5180A offers dedicated power stage and controls suitable for electric DC motor driving. This evaluation board comes pre-assembled with VNH5180A H-bridge belonging to the VNH Motor Driver series based on VIPower®proprietary technology. A typical application is the door lock.

This evaluation board consists of a motherboard (STM8 Universal Board) and a daughterboard.

The motherboard, based on STM8 microcontroller, provides the logic section for monitoring and driving the VNH5180A assembled in the daughterboard.

With the aim to make simpler the board usage and settings, ST provides a dedicated and user-friendly software with a Graphic User Interface (GUI). This enables the user to set VNH5180A parameters (PWM, Motor direction…) and at the same time it shows real time device diagnostic information like current output evolution, battery voltage monitoring, board temperature and much more.

Key Features

  • Handling up to 8 A of maximum motor current output
  • Undervoltage shutdown
  • Overvoltage clamp
  • Device thermal protection
  • Cross-conduction protection
  • Current and power limitation
  • Very low standby power consumption
  • Programmable PWM operation (up to 20 kHz)
  • Protection against loss of ground and loss of VCC
  • Motor current monitoring (thanks to VNH5180A current sense output)
  • Device output protected against short to ground and short to VCC
  • Graphic User Interface (GUI)
Product Specifications
DescriptionVersionSize
DB1999: Motor driver evaluation board based on VNH5180A3.01 MB
User Manuals
DescriptionVersionSize
UM1683: STEVAL-VNH5180A Evaluation board2.0789 KB
HW Model & CAD Libraries
DescriptionVersionSize
ASSP VIP USB driver1.01 MB
Graphic User Interface1.01 MB
License Agreement
DescriptionVersionSize
Evaluation products license agreement1.0125 KB
Sample & Buy
Part NumberUnit Price (US$) *QuantityECCN (EU)ECCN (US)Country of Origin
STEVAL-VNH5180A207.031NECEAR99-
Quality & Reliability
Part NumberRoHS Compliance GradeMaterial Declaration**
STEVAL-VNH5180ANot compliant
Motor driver evaluation board based on VNH5180A STEVAL-VNH5180A
STEVAL-VNH5180A Evaluation board STEVAL-VNH5180A
STEVAL-VNH5180A Evaluation board STEVAL-VNH5180A
STEVAL-VNH5180A Evaluation board STEVAL-VNH5180A
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