Electronic Design

Motor Control ICs Suit Variable Speed BLDC Applications

A line of brushless DC (BLDC) motor control ICs contain 115 Vac and 230 Vac devices that integrate six IGBT bridges for fractional and subfractional HP BLDC motors. With complementing bridge drivers, ...
Electronic Design

Motor-Control ICs Integrate Position Sensing for BLDCs

At CES, MPS highlighted how its motor-control ICs can enable smarter, more precise control of brushless DC motors that are multiplying across robotics and other industries.
EDN

3-phase Sensorless BLDC Motor Control Development Kit

This application note describes a three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motor control using a sensorless algorithm. This cost-effective solution is based on the Freescale Semiconductor MPC5606B device, a ...
New Electronics

Toshiba launches sine‑wave drive controllers for three‑phase BLDC motors

Toshiba Electronics Europe has introduced two new sine‑wave pulse‑width‑modulated (PWM) drive controllers designed for three‑phase brushless DC (BLDC) motors, expanding its motor control portfolio.
EDN

Back EMF and electric motors: From fundamentals to real-world applications

Let us begin this session by revisiting a nostalgic motor control IC—the AN6651—designed for rotating speed control of compact DC motors used in tape recorders, record players, and similar devices.