Power seats

Accelerating the evolution of passenger comfort and convenience

Automotive power seats provide comfort and convenience for the driver and passengers.  When adjusting positions, controlling seat temperature and airflow, or interacting with advanced features, our expertise will help you meet the changing design needs for power seats. Leverage our products and system resources to create power seat control modules that are more advanced, efficient and flexible.

Why choose TI for your power seat modules?

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Save time and space

Reduce board space and shorten development time with our motor control products through analog integration.

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Design scalable solutions

Select the right combination of features from our broad range of drivers, transceivers and microcontrollers. Scalable options allow easy customization to module variants.

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Ensure safety and reliability

Ensure safe, reliable operation of power seat circuits that drive high currents for motors and heaters with our comprehensive diagnostic and protection features.

Enabling technologies

Make the most of time and space in power seat control module designs

Our motor drivers integrate features such as current feedback and slew rate controls to reduce the number of external parts since power seat modules need a variety of electronic functions to control various features.

Benefits:

  • Reduce the need for additional product packages with our microcontrollers that include analog circuits often needed for power seat applications.
  • Shorten design time and minimize board size with our system basis chips with integrated supervisory features.
Technical article
How integrated brushed-DC solutions can reduce size, enhance protection and simpli
Read this article to understand how to break down size and design time challenges and how to address them.
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Application note
Understanding Smart Gate Drive (Rev. D)
This application report describes  the various challenges encountered in motor gate driver systems, and the different features implemented in TI Smart Gate Drivers to help solve these challenges.
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Application brief
Advantages of Integrated Current Sensing (Rev. B)
Integrated current sensing in our latest family of motor drivers removes costly power resistors from the BOM,  reduces board size, component count and simplifies PCB routing.
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Enable a scalable approach from compact drives to complex multiaxis applications

Minimize design resources with scalable power levels and number of channels across platforms through our broad portfolio.

Benefits:

  • Pin-to-pin, scalable on-resistance options support different loads with minimal design changes.
  • Future-proof your design with families of drivers with expandable number of output channels.
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Intelligently diagnose and protect seat modules with integrated protection features

Accurate sensing of motor current and real-time control of the system state allow designers to build robust modules to perform under demanding conditions since power seat modules must monitor external load conditions and identify any fault conditions, reporting real-time states through the vehicle network.

Benefits:

  • Enable smarter designs for reliable operation with our integrated self-monitoring and sensing features.
  • Ensure safe states during fault conditions with our built-in protection features.
Application brief
Open Load Detection in Integrated Drivers (Rev. C)
Open load detection (OLD) determines a load's  connectivity to the power stage of a motor  driver. This article presents various types of open-load diagnostics, features and implementation in TI's motor drivers.
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Application brief
Advantages of Integrated Current Sensing (Rev. B)
Learn more about the advantages of integrated current sensing.
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Application note
Detecting Short to Battery and Ground Conditions with TI Motor Gate Drivers
Learn how to detect short-to-battery and ground conditions with TI motor gate drivers.
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Design & development resources

Evaluation board
DRV8714S-Q1 evaluation module for four-channel smart gate driver with SPI configuration

The DRV8714S-Q1 evaluation module (EVM) allows easy evaluation of the DRV8714S-Q1 four-channel gate driver with inline current sensing and offline diagnostics. The device featured on this EVM is the 56-pin 8-mm x 8-mm RVJ package variant with SPI interface, which accepts a wide supply input range (...)

Evaluation board
DRV8245-Q1 evaluation module for automotive H-bridge driver with hardware interface

The DRV824x-Q1 family of devices is a fully integrated H-bridge driver intended for a wide range of automotive applications. The DRV824x-Q1 device can be configured as a single H-bridge driver, two independent half bridge drivers. Designed in Texas Instruments' proprietary high power BiCMOS process (...)

Reference design
Automotive 2-Axis Power Seat Brushed DC Motor Drive Reference Design
The TIDA-01330 reference design implements the drive circuits for two independent brushed DC motors. It provides a solution for automotive power seats with a highly integrated 2-axis driver, reducing the overall bill of materials. The interface to a simple microcontroller Illustrates how the (...)

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Featured products

Brushed DC (BDC) motor drivers DRV8714-Q1 ACTIVE Automotive 40-V, four-channel half-bridge smart gate driver with inline current sense amplifier
Brushed DC (BDC) motor drivers DRV8243-Q1 ACTIVE Automotive 40-V, 12-A H-bridge driver with integrated current sensing and feedback
Integrated control BLDC drivers DRV10983-Q1 ACTIVE Automotive 12-V battery, 3.5-A peak sensorless sinusoidal control 3-phase BLDC motor driver