3 Phase Brushless (BLDC) Motor Driver Circuit

In this post we learn how to make a simple 3 phase brushless DC motor driver circuit. The
circuit employs the popular IRS2330 3-phase driver IC

The presented idea looks simple since most of the technicalities is taken care of eciently
by the IC itself, it's all about connecting the relevant pinouts with the few external
supplementary components for the required implementations.
We know that all BLDC motors fundamentally incorporate Hall sensors attached with their
stator assembly where these devices play a crucial rule in detecting and supplying the
control circuit with the necessary data regarding the rotor magnet instantaneous positions
with regard to the stator coil activation. The info helps the control circuit to subsequently
changeover the stator electromagnet activations sequentially such that the rotor constantly
experiences a rotational torque and produces the intended rotational motion.
Therefore it seems that the hall eect sensors are the ones that become solely responsible
for detecting and inducing the intended rotational motion in BLDC motors.
The control circuit connected with the hall sensors are in fact "blind" and respond entirely
to the hall sensor signals in order to produce the required feed backs to the electromagnet
coils.
The above fact actually makes the designing of a 3 phase BLDC motor controller pretty

easy, the simplicity also becomes further aided with the easy availability of the universal 3
phase H bridge driver IC such as the IRS2330.
The following discussion provides a comprehensive view on the designing of a 3 phase
brushless BLDC motor driver circuit:

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The above shows the pinout diagram of the IC IRS2330 which simply needs to be connected
to a set of a few external components for implementing the proposed BLDC controller
circuit.

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In the above diagram we witness the method of connecting the IC pinouts with some
external components wherein the right hand side IGBT stage shows a standard H bridge
conguration using 6 IGBTs integrated with the appropriate pinouts of the IC.
The above integration concludes the output power stage for the BLDC controller circuit, the
"load" indicates the BLDC 3 phase electromagnet coils, now its all about conguring the
inputs HIN1/2/3 and LIN1/2/3 of the IC with the relevant hall sensor outputs.

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Before applying the hall sensor triggers to the driver IC inputs, it's required to be buered
through a couple of NOT gates as given in the diagram above.
Finally, the outputs of the NOT gates is integrated appropriately with the inputs of the IC
IRS2330.

The negatives of all the hall sensors may be assumed to be grounded.

The second circuit which forms the main driver conguration for the proposed 3 phase
brushless BLDC motor driver circuit, could be also seen having a current sensing stage
across its lower left section. The resistive divider may be appropriately dimensioned for
enabling an over current protection and control over the connected BLDC motor.
For getting comprehensive details regarding the current sensing conguration and other
intricacies of the whole design, one may refer to the following datasheet of the IC:
http://www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irs2330pbf.pdf

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