EVSPIN32G4 Over Current Protection (OCP)

[1123]

Hi all , 

I'm currently using the EVSPIN32G4 evaluation board along with MC Workbench for motor control development, and I'm encountering an issue with Overcurrent Protection (OCP) behavior that I can’t quite resolve.

My Setup:
Gain Type: External Gain Net
OCP Threshold (set in MC Workbench): 200A
Shunt Resistor: Physically modified to 1mΩ (0.001Ω)
External Amplifier Gain: 7.33

During runtime, I monitored the motor phase current using a current probe and oscilloscope. OCP is triggered at only around 46A, which is far below the configured 200A.

In the firmware, I noticed:

DAC_OCP_Threshold = 7427;

According to the MC SDK, the current conversion factor is calculated using this formula:

#define CURRENT_CONV_FACTOR ((uint16_t)((65536.0 * RSHUNT * GAIN) / ADC_REFERENCE_VOLTAGE))

I get: CURRENT_CONV_FACTOR ≈ 146 ///   I = 7427/146 = 50.9A

In the official ST document UM2850 - Getting Started with EVSPIN32G4, Section 5.5.2 provides a OCP threshold formula.

The formula is used to calculate the actual overcurrent protection (OCP) trigger current based on the hardware resistor network.

I’m unsure whether this discrepancy is due to a misunderstanding on my side, or if there’s a misconfiguration in the setup.I hope someone can help me clarify this issue.

Thanks

[GMA]

Hello @1123,

How did you measure the 46A current value? The most accurate is to measure with a scope the voltage at Rshunt point.
Signal could be noisy; could you try by increasing the Digital Filter Duration?