STMicroelectronics AEK-CON-AFLVIP2 Adaptive Connector Board

STMicroelectronics AEK-CON-AFLVIP2 Adaptive Front Lighting Connector Board is designed to connect a car headlight solution demo featuring automatic adjustment of the low beam direction based on road geometry and tilt angles affected by weight distributions inside the car.

The AEK-CON-AFLVIP2 Connector Board provides a connection to an MCU discovery board, such as the AEK-MCU-C4MLIT1 (with 4x37 connector), with two AEK-MOT-SM81M1 stepper motor boards governing low beam direction (left-right and up-down), and an AEK-LED-21DISM1 LED driver board capable of supplying the different LED lights included in a modern front headlight assembly. The AEK-CON-AFLVIP2 Board can also connect a high-side switchboard from the EV-VNx series to control a cooling fan for the LED headlight.

The AEK-CON-AFLVIP2 board is part of the AutoDevKit initiative, enabling the building and testing of various application prototypes from a set of available boards. This also supports the generation of dedicated drivers and pin assignments using the SPC5-Studio integrated development environment.

Features

Designed to connect the following elements for a complete automatic front lighting (AFL) adjustment solution for LED vehicle headlights
- An MCU board such as the AEK-MCU-C4MLIT1 with a 4x37 connector
- Two AEK-MOT-SM81M1 stepper motor boards
- An AEK-LED-21DISM1 LED driver control board with two L99LD21 LED drivers and providing four independent channels
- An EV-VNx actuator board such as the EV-VN7050AS to switch a headlight cooling fan on and off