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 ...

Munich, Germany – The high-end of the European inverter and motor control markets have long been driven by the push to achieve the highest performance from a microcontroller and the fastest response ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Energy conversion efficiency has always played an important role in electronics design, and in the case of electric motors, the conversion takes place twice: first to create the electricity needed to ...

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 ...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., is helping engineers stay ahead in motor control design with its online motor control resource ...

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 ...

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 ...