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 ...

Although any overloaded dc motor can draw excessive current and sustain damage, a cooling fan's motor is particularly vulnerable due to fouling by dust, insects, or misplaced objects. A few fans ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. This 8051 microcontroller-based control circuit adjusts the speed of a small permanent-magnet dc motor via photosensors ...

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

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 ...

High-voltage half-bridge motor-driver is 99.2%-efficient; needs no heatsinks and reduces software certification time and expense SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), ...

If you follow the world of small microcontrollers you will certainly be familiar with the usual fare of Atmel, ARM Cortex, PIC, and others. But these aren’t the smallest or cheapest devices, below ...

Having reviewed the basics of BLDC motor control in Part 1, the design effort canbegin.. The first quest is to select a microcontroller. Looking in themarketplace there are several microcontrollers ...

Every day engineers design products that employ single-phase induction motors. Speed control of single-phase induction motors is desirable in most motor control applications since it not only provides ...

High-voltage half-bridge motor-driver is 99.2%-efficient; needs no heatsinks and reduces software certification time and expense BridgeSwitch BLDC Motor-Driver IC Family from Power Integrations ...