myActive Login Products Solutions Support News & Media Buy Now About Us / Hydra-X Hydra-X Overview Hydra-X Blog Forum Downloads Product Selection Table Hydra-X Board Hydra-X Heads Hydra-X is development platform which is feature rich, scalable and easy to use. Based on the Power Application ControllerTM (PACTM) family of ICs, Hydra-X gives you the ability to execute your own code on a 32-bit ARM Cortex Core, paralleled with analog resources such as multi-mode power manager (for DCDC power management), configurable Analog frontend (AFE), Data converters (1MHz 10-bit ADC, 2 Precision DACs), 52V, 70V, 600V gate drivers, open drain drivers, to name a few. With up to 14 PWM timing functions, you will find it hard to run out of timing resources. Fully configurable into PWM, input capture or output compare, these timers are expanded by a dead time generator block extremely useful when driving external FETs in a half H-Bridge configuration and a dead time needs to be imposed in order to protect the design from shoot-through. Downloads for PACTM and Hydra-X Boards Visit Technical Resources for Datasheets, User Guides, Schematic/BOM/Layout Collaterals and Firmware Code Hydra-X Product Selection Tables Hydra-X Body Boards ORDER PART # TYPE DESCRIPTION INPUT VOLTAGE SYSTEM VOLTAGE RAILS GPIO PWM CHANNEL INTERFACE STATUS EP-HYDRAX10-1 Hydra-X10 Body Board PAC5210 based HYDRA-X Platform Evaluation Kit 12V to 52V 12V, 5V, 3.3V, 1.8V 36 14 GPIO SPI I2C UART SWD In Production EP-HYDRAX20-1 Hydra-X20 Body Board PAC5220 based HYDRA-X Platform Evaluation Kit 12V to 52V 12V, 5V, 3.3V, 1.8V 28 6 GD 6 GPIO SPI I2C UART SWD In Production EP-HYDRAX23-1 Hydra-X23 Body Board PAC5223 based HYDRA-X Platform Evaluation Kit (Buck Configuration) 8V to 52V 12V, 5V, 3.3V, 1.8V 23 6 GD 4 GPIO SPI I2C UART SWD In Production EP-HYDRAX23S-1 Hydra-X23S Body Board PAC5223 based HYDRA-X Platform Evaluation Kit (SEPIC Mode) 8V to 52V 12V, 5V, 3.3V, 1.8V 23 6 GD 4 GPIO SPI I2C UART SWD In Production EP-HYDRA-X10-1 EP-HYDRA-X20-1 EP-HYDRA-X23-1 EP-HYDRA-X23S-1 Hydra-X Heads ORDER PART # TYPE DESCRIPTION STATUS EH-FOC1-1 FOC Motor Control Head EVK HYDRA-X Head board for FOC Motor solution (Sensored and Sensorless) In Production EH-BLDCM1-1 BLDC Motor Control Head EVK HYDRA-X Head board for BLDC Back-EMF Motor solution (Sensored and Sensorless) In Production EH-PROTOS-1 Hydra-X Proto Board HYDRA-X Head board for Prototyping - Small Size Blank Board In Production EH-PROTOM-1 Hydra-X Proto Board HYDRA-X Head board for Prototyping - Medium Size Blank Board In Production EH-PROTOL-1 Hydra-X Proto Board HYDRA-X Head board for Prototyping - Large Size Blank Board In Production EH-FOC1-1 EH-BLDCM1-1 EH-PROTOS-1 EH-PROTOM-1 EH-PROTOL-1 Hydra-X10 Board PAC52xx Family Diagram Hydra-X EVK Features and Benefits: Features Active-Semi PACTM Family ICs Multi-mode Power Manager (AC-DC, DC-DC switchers, LDOs) 14 channels of Analog to Digital conversion Configurable AFE with single-ended & differential amplifiers, comparators Open drain drivers Up to 14 PWM timing functions On chip temperature sensor UART, SPI or I2C Serial Communication Up to 36 GPIOs 32-bit ARM(R) Cortex Core On Board Debugger Single Unit Debugger/Compiler/Programmer One of the items that makes the PAC52xx device so fascinating is its level of integration. Anybody designing an application revolving around a microcontroller will remember the process of selecting voltage regulators to power up the different blocks. With PAC52xx, this step can be omitted as all voltage regulation needs have been taken care of. Simply apply your input voltage, and the internal Multi Mode Power block will generate all the internal voltages to power up the core, as well as the GPIO resources. Hydra-X platform offers a USB-to-UART chip which allows the connection of the development board to your computer. This link is advantageous as many applications can benefit from serial communications as seen from an external Graphical User Interface piece of software on your main computer. Hydra-X also has an on-board debugger (versus a simple boot loader). This allows you to burn your code into FLASH with a simple press of a button. This debugger also gives you the ability to debug your code in real time which is quite priceless for faster development! You can observe memory contents such as variables, register values, etc, as well as stepping through code in hopes of finding that pesky bug. Hydra-X platform is supported with the hardware kits for PAC5210 and PAC5220 ICs, and comes with supply supported software development kit (SDK) for IAR and CooCox IDEs, documentation, example code and reference designs. Take advantage of fellow developers by participating in the Hydra-X community and keep up-to-date with Hydra-X news by subscribing to the Hydra-X Blog. Flash Programmers for Active-Semi PAC ICs can be purchased from About Us News & Media Support Careers Leadership Investors Corporate History Contact Us Press Releases In The News Events Blog Videos Technical Resources Design Partners Ask An Engineer Life & Culture Job Listings Terms of Use Privacy Copyright (c) 2015. Active-Semi, Inc. Solutions for Sustainability. All Rights Reserved.