SL-LTALT04602V1

Solution Description

The Adaptive Front Lighting Solution kit is available, built according to the AutoDevKit™ initiative. The hardware and the software of the kit is split in well separated hardware and software components to allow the developer to easily evaluate, add / remove features, customize the code and quickly achieve a prototype platform.

Target Applications

Car Headlights (low beam, high beam, Daytime Running Light, Turn indicator, Fog light)
Emergency vehicle lights (police cars, ambulances, fire trucks…)
Vehicle auxiliary lights (jeeps, motorbikes, tractors…)

Key Product Benefits

SPC58C - Automotive MCUs

The SPC58 Chorus C Line is part of our General-Purpose Automotive Power Architecture® MCUs. It is designed for body, networking and security applications such as secure onboard communication systems in connected vehicles.Designed in compliance with ISO 26262 specifications, the SPC58 C Line supports the ASIL-B safety standard as well as EVITA medium security level to secure on-board architecture and communication protocols such as Ethernet with Audio Video Bridging (AVB) capability.

L9616 - 1Mbaud bidirectional transceiver

The L9616 is a bidirectional transceiver for signal conditioning and processing in connection with a CAN controller. Data rates of up to 1 Mbaud are supported using either shielded or non-shielded pair of lines.

L99LD21 - High power LED driver for automotive applications

The L99LD21 is a flexible LED driver, which is specifically designed for the control of two independent high brightness LED strings for automotive front lighting applications. It consists of a high efficiency monolithic boost controller and a dual buck converter.

L99SM81V - Automotive grade stepper motor driver

The L99SM81V is an automotive grade integrated driver for bipolar two-phase stepper motors capable of current controlled micro-stepping with programmable amplitude. The device features a 5 V voltage regulator to supply external sensors.

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All Features
Combination of boards to create an automatic front light adjustment system (AFL)

Entire system controlled and monitored by MCU board

Fully compatible with AEKD-AFLLIGHT1 head light simulator available separately, with the following loads:

two stepper motors for light projection angle adjustment (X and Y directions);

LED string currents for high beam, low beam, DRL and direction lights;

a cooling fan.

The firmware 'SPC58ECXX_RLA Adaptive Front Lighting (AFL)’ can be imported and generated as an AutoDevKit Studio project. The compiled code can be flashed on control board SPC58 MCU with demo application software for independent control of above loads.

Dedicated connector board for easy connection and disconnection of boards during testing and prototyping

Additional generic connector board facilitates connector pin reassignments and board stacking

WEEE and RoHS compliant

All ST components are qualified Automotive grade
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Kit Description

Distributor availability of AEKD-AFLPANEL1

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The Adaptive Front Lighting Solution kit is the all-in-one tool for engineers developing ECUs in the domain of car lighting, LED driving, stepper motor control, CAN communication.

This Kit will get you started quickly with your development of Adaptive Front Lighting applications.

One tool with many possible uses:

Evaluate products with a common platform
Evaluate interactions between ECU functionalities
Build and modify prototype without having to deal with tedious technical details and using full modular software components
Acquire knowledge at system level by analyzing the provided source code
Take the hardware and software kit as base for complete ECU development
Dig information on single devices from available drivers

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All Evaluation Features

One tool with many possible uses:

Evaluate the products with a common platform

Evaluate interactions between ECU functionalities

Build and modify a prototype without having to deal with tedious technical details and using full modular software components

Acquire knowledge at system level, by analyzing the provided source code

Take the hardware and software kit as base for a complete ECU development

Gather information on single devices from available drivers

The Adaptive Front Lighting Solution simulates a complete ECU dedicated to the control of an adaptive headlight.

The software included with the Adaptive Front Lighting Solution exploits great flexibility providing:

An AutoDevKit Studio project named 'SPC58ECXX_RLA Adaptive Front Lighting (AFL)’ that can be generated and compiled several times to accommodate all user customizations. This demo performs all the actuations of the lights, motors, fan and communication with CAN in an infinite loop. Therefore, it is possible to get an immediate perception of the solution capabilities.

An integrated firmware development environment named AutoDevKit Studio: this is at the base of the software development. It comes with low level drivers for all the MCU peripherals, together with key initial files for boot management, clock tree configuration, pin configuration. Every low-level driver has a dedicated graphical interface to facilitate the configuration of the MCU peripherals. In addition, firmware developers are provided with drivers for all the functional board employed: stepper motor boards, led driver board, fan control board. Every single driver comes with graphical user interface for configuration and capability to auto-allocate the MCU resources and set-up the low-level drivers. Finally, the operation is facilitated by the generation of the connection map between the MCU board and the other boards.

Portability of board drivers and low-level drivers across the SPC5 family MCUs, thus allowing changing of MCU without changing the developer’s source code
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Automotive analog and power

Part number	Description
L9663	Automotive PSI5 transceiver IC
L99LD21	High power LED driver for automotive applications
L99PM62GXP	Power Management IC with LIN and High Speed CAN
L99PM72GXP	Advanced Power Management System IC with embedded LIN and high speed CAN Transceiver supporting CAN Partial Networking
L99SM81V	Programmable Stepper Motor Driver for Automotive Applications with Micro-Stepping and Stall Detection
VN7040AS	High-side driver with MultiSense analog feedback for automotive applications
VN7050AS	High-side driver with MultiSense analog feedback for automotive application