Reference platforms are powerful yet simple-to-use development tools built around leading-edge microcontrollers whose feature sets and performance characteristics are optimized for use as motor ...

Updated Motor-Expert Design Tool Motor-Expert 2.0 is Power Integrations’ easy-to-use motor control configuration and diagnostics tool for the BridgeSwitch IC family. It provides a GUI allowing easy ...

Allegro MicroSystems has announced a 3-phase sensor-less brush-less dc (BLDC) fan driver IC with sinusoidal outputs to minimise audible noise and vibration. A5931 on left, and conventional equivalent ...

Allegro MicroSystems has announced a 3-phase sensor-less brush-less dc (BLDC) fan driver IC with sinusoidal outputs to minimise audible noise and vibration. The chip, called A5931, includes output ...

This source code supports Microchip's Application Note AN1160: Sensorless BLDC Control with Back-EMF Filtering Using a Majority Function, which describes a sensorless Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) ...

Fairchild Semiconductor's China-based Global Power ResourceSM Center (GPRC) has developed a reference design for Brushless DC (BLDC) motor controller applications using SPM® smart power modules, and ...

Mechanically actuated automotive systems, such as power steering and fuel and water pumps, are being replaced with systems that utilize electric motor technology. Consequently, the presence of ...

This article describes ongoing internal project activities at eInfochips in the control systems domain for applications in motor and engine controls aimed for aerospace and automotive segments.

With its ever-increasing electronic content, the modern automobile places a premium on energy-efficient design. That’s doubly true for hybrid-electric and full-electric vehicles (HEVs and EVs), in ...