Updated Motor Control Studio software from Toshiba streamlines motor control solutions

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH (“Toshiba”) has released MCU Motor Studio 4.0 (MMS), the latest update to Toshiba’s TXZ+™ advanced class microcontroller motor control software tool and firmware.

This release of the MCU Motor Studio now adds bare-metal configurations, covering all supported devices and allowing for usage with no real-time operating system. It extends the MCU coverage with the latest Toshiba’s TMPM4KNF10x group. New features implemented in this release include a change-down stage support, allowing smooth transition from vector control to sine-wave commutation (Force mode); PWM shift-2 enhancement of the 1-shunt current sensing for both vector engine (VE) based hardware control and software implemented FOC. Direction change/reverse rotation with flux observer based FOC as well as “STOP Brake” mode are also added. MMS 4.0 includes a free-run digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) for continuous real-time logging of up to four parameters to complement existing DSO one-shot real-time logging, which, in contrast, is performed over shorter time intervals with a pre-defined number of samples and sampling rate.

Compatible with Windows 11, MMS 4.0 is available for download from the Toshiba website. A planned future update will allow users to install Motor Tuning Studio (MTS), which is currently available to download as an accompanying tool, as a standalone library within MMS 4.0, thereby allowing users to conveniently access the features of both tools via a single graphical user interface (GUI).

In addition, MIKROE is planning to release the Clicker 4 Inverter Shield 2, the latest addition to the Clicker 4 series of extension boards, which will be fully supported in this new MMS 4.0 version.