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On the other hand, slow decay can be undesirable in some situations, for example when

current has to be regulated at very low values or the motor winding L/R ratio is high. In these

cases, an on time shorter than the minimum tON (about 1.5 µs) may be requested to

regulate the current, and this can cause the PWM controller to lose the regulation (refer to

Section 1.11).

Another situation where fast decay should be preferred to slow decay is when the regulated

current is expected to vary over time with a given profile (enforced, providing a variable

voltage on the Vref pins - see Section 1.16). Here fast decay helps to track fast decreasing

edges in the desired profile.

1.15

Choosing the stepping sequence

The device can provide three different sequences to run a stepper motor: full-step, two-

phase on (normal drive), full-step, one-phase on (wave drive) and half-step.

If half-step driving is used, the motor advances by half a step after each clock pulse,

obtaining a higher position resolution and reducing instability due to low torque regions in

certain motors' speed-torque diagrams, when used in full-step mode.

Figure 28.

Torque instability in full-step mode.

When this driving method is used, the torque is affected by ripple because in odd-numbered

states, when both coils are driven, the total current in the motor windings is double that

found in even-numbered states.

A way to avoid the high torque ripple in half-step mode is to supply the motor with a higher

current (by a factor of

) during the even-numbered states, in which only one winding is

energized, simply by applying a

higher reference voltage at the VrefA, VrefB pins during

these states (see Figure 29 on page 26)(b).

Also refer to [2] in References

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