Advanced Motor Drive Sensing System (AMDS)

The AMDS is a hardware platform for sensing parameters such as currents and voltages in power electronic systems. The platform includes:

• Sensor cards to measure low voltage, high voltage, and currents.
• A mainboard that serves as a carrier board for upto 8 sensor cards.
• SPI interface between the sensor cards and the mainboard.
• Robust differential IO communication to transmit sensor data to an external controller such as the AMDC.

Documentation

Detailed documentaion for each sensor card and the mainboard are available in the respective folders.

Repository Structure

Each sensor card and the mainboard have a corresponding folder in the root level of the repository. These folders are organized as follows:

• The altium sub-folder contains all files pertaining to schematics / board design in Altium Designer. These files are the latest working copy of the project.

• The REVyyyymmdd* sub-folder represents snapshots of the project that were used to produce a physical PCB. These directories contain the Gerber, Drill (Excellon format), Bill of Materials (XLS), and Schematic (PDF) files.

  • REV indicates a revision of design for manufacturing
  • yyyymmdd indicates the date on which design was frozen
  • * (letter) indicates which revision in sequence (A - first, B - second, etc.)

• The docs sub-folder contains documentation for the PCB.