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 partitioning of the double-sided 2.5cm x 5cm board means the TMPM373 microcontroller and high side mosfets are on one side of the board and the gate drivers and low-side mosfets on the other.

The versatile Motor Mind C dc motor-control system can control one or two brushed dc motors. In serial mode, users have direct control of the motor speed and direction. When configured for two motors, ...

Elektor International Media sent me a copy of Martin Brown’s book, Power Electronics in Motor Drives: Principles, Application and Design. Brown worked with Siemens UK for almost 30 years and designed ...

To correctly drive motor system speed and torque, it requires feedback accuracy and signal integrity to provide stability inside the motor’s dynamic range. This article compares three motor control ...

Most industrial facilities include electric motors that require overload relays for protection, control and monitoring purposes. The latest overload relays are often called motor management relays ...

Guest columnist Baoxing Chen, senior staff engineer at Analog Devices, says that designing a motor-control system presents two main challenges. First, the design requires sending accurate motor ...

Harley-Davidson has been granted a patent for systems and methods to operate an electric motor in a two-wheeled vehicle. The technology involves detecting control positions, mapping torque requests, ...