To meet the demands of modern motor-control applications, which are being driven by the increased need for more energy-efficient appliances, engineers are looking for ways to better control motor ...

Toshiba's latest product from Smart Motor Control Driver SmartMCD™ series delivers integrated solution for automotive brushed ...

Mouser Electronics, Inc. announced the availability of Freescale Kinetis KV1x Microcontrollers that features 75 MHz Cortex-M0+ core with hardware square root. It features 4-channel DMA and dual ...

NUREMBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) today announced its new S12 MagniV 16-bit S12ZVM family of mixed-signal microcontrollers (MCUs). The S12ZVM is the most highly ...

Component distributor Rutronik is selling the Infineon XMC5000 series of dual-core microcontrollers, which are aimed at motor ...

Texas Instruments Incorporated announced a new motor control kit for spinning three-phase brushless motors with a Stellaris(r) Cortex(tm)-M3 microcontroller (MCU). The new motor control kit features a ...

Microchip is aiming at motor control by combining a triple half-bridge mosfet gate driver, a 100MHz processor and CAN FD transceivers in the same IC. Other members of the family offer LIN transceivers ...

Graceful Shutdown: Ensuring the motor and controller are shut down safely when the application is stopped. If the application operates on a multicore MCU/DSP/FPGA, an appropriate inter-core ...

The microcontroller is based on an Arm Cortex-M3. The chip integrates NFET drivers that can drive a three-phase motor or it can control external NFETs. The system includes a charge pump that allows ...

As previously mentioned, the feedback sensors include position sensors to track the rotor’s location, current sensors to measure the motor phase currents, voltage sensors to monitor the DC bus voltage ...

The co-ordination and synchronization control of motion of multiple motors is a challenging problem, since the synchronization of each individual motor can be influenced by many factors. This paper ...

The topic of motors and motor control techniques is wide and varied. Part one of this two-part article will cover the principles of alternating-current (AC) motor operation and control. Part two will ...