STMicroelectronics | AEKD-BLINDSPOTB1

The AEKD-BLINDSPOTB1 set of assembled evaluation boards is used with the AEKD-BLINDSPOTA1 car model demonstration assembly to simulate vehicle detection in automotive blind-spot regions. It achieves this by interpreting magnetic field variations detected by a Hall sensor mounted near a stationary model car, caused by magnets mounted on another model car approaching on a conveyor belt driven by a 12 VDC gearbox motor with 40 RPM and high torque. The goal of the training kit is to support firmware development of blind-spot applications using the SPC5-Studio integrated development environment with AutoDevKit plugin extension, which includes the source code. The system can be tested using the STSW-BLINDSPOT firmware downloadable from www.st.com.

Features

◦Full set of evaluation boards to drive vehicle blind-spot application development: • AEK-MCU-C4MLIT1: main control board with SPC58EC80E5 automotive microcontroller running firmware to interpret detected magnetic field variations
• AEK-LED-21DISM1: advanced automotive-grade LED driver board used to activate the vehicle in blind-spot warning LED
• EV-VN7050AS: high-side driver used to drive the DC gearbox motor of the conveyor belt

◦Unique power supply path for all boards and the hardware assembly
◦5 V, 2 A AC-DC included
◦Part of the AutoDevKit™ initiative
◦RoHS and WEEE compliant