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Motor and Motion Control Application Notes :: Infineon AP16117: Speed Control of BLDC motor with Hall Sensor using DAvE Drive for Infineon XC164CM/CS microcontrollers

This application notes describes the Sensored BLDC motor control using the XC164CS/CM microcontroller. The motor control software uses the XC164CS/CM peripherals while the mathematical computations...  >>  

Sensor Signal Conditioning Application Notes :: INTELLIGENT THERMAL MANAGEMENT

With almost a decade of experience in designing thermal management solutions for industry leading companies in the computing and consumer markets, SMSC offers a breadth of expertise and an...  >>  

AC Motor Control White Papers :: Motor Control: A Freescale multimedia tutorial

• Motor Principles • Phase Angle Control • Pulse Width Modulation • Power Topologies  >>  

DC Motor Control Application Notes :: Brushless DC Motor Control

Re-programmable analog and digital components provide design cycle flexibility and easy design debug capability for customers. For a slight change in BLDCmotor speed or direction, the simple...  >>  

Motor and Motion Control White Papers :: Motor Drive Technical Papers

Motor Drive Technical Papers, Applications, Solutions, Design Support  >>  

IEEE 1588 White Papers :: IEEE 1588

The IEEE 1588 standard provides a way to synchronize devices on a network with submicrosecond precision. Known as the “Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and...  >>  

IEEE 1588 White Papers :: Hardware-Assisted IEEE 1588* Implementation in the Intel IXP46X Product Line White Paper

This document describes a hardware-assisted IEEE 1588* implementation in the IXP46X product line of network processors. An overview of the 1588 standard is presented, and the general pros and cons...  >>  

Permanent Magnet Motor Control White Papers :: Compact, Rugged Digital Sine Drive for High Reliability Applications

Future air land and sea vehicles demand highly efficient speed controls for continuous duty machines such as fuel pumps, airflow machines/fans, and compressors. Controls are positioned near loads...  >>  

IEEE 1588 White Papers :: IEEE 1588* in Network Processors for Next-Generation Industrial Automation Solutions

This article provides an overview of the move to Ethernet-based commercial off-the-shelf networking solutions in the industrial control and automation market segment. It includes an overview of the...  >>  

Motor and Motion Control Application Notes :: 5 Ampare Pulse Width Modulation Amplifier

The SA56 is a 5-ampere PWM Amplifier designed for motor-control applications. It operates at up to 60 volts, and can deliver up to 10 amperes, peak. The SA56 enables powering and controlling DC...  >>  

AC Motor Control Application Notes :: Motor Control with Wireless Sensors

A single hybrid architecture device incorporating both a Microcontroller (MCU) and a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) offers the peripherals and processing power needed to control electrical motors,...  >>  

AC Motor Control Application Notes :: Motor Drive Application Notes

Applications, Application Solutions, Technology Solutions, Design Support [Several pdf documents]  >>  

IEEE 1588 White Papers :: WP221 Static Power and the Importance of Realistic Junction Temperature Analysis White Paper

White Paper: Virtex-4 Family R WP221 (v1.0) March 23, 2005 Static Power and the Importance of Realistic Junction Temperature Analysis By: Matt Klein Total power consumption of a board or system is...  >>  

DC Motor Control Application Notes :: Motor/Motion Control Overview

Motor and motion control electronics need lower-power, efficient and precision analog circuits in space-saving packages for amplifying, filtering and converting signals into usable digital data.  >>  

Permanent Magnet Motor Control Application Notes :: 3-Phase Switching Amplifier - SA306-IHZ

The SA306-IHZ is a fully-integrated switching amplifier designed primarily to drive three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motors. Three independent half bridges, each comprising a P-FET and a N-FET in a...  >>  

AC Motor Control White Papers :: NEW 1200-V INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHANGES THE WAY 3-PHASE MOTOR DRIVE INVERTERS ARE DESIGNED

New 1200-V high voltage integrated circuit technology and design advances enable a whole new class of 3-phase motor drive inverters that set new benchmarks for efficiency, compactness and...  >>  

Universal Motor Control Application Notes :: Improved Universal Motor Drive

Universal motors are mostly operated in AC current mode and are controlled by means of TRIACS. This widespread solution leads to a cheap electronic controller board but has some drawbacks. When...  >>  

AC Motor Control White Papers :: Application-Specific Current Rating of Advanced Power Modules for Motion Control

With the advent of new energy efficiency requirements in motion control applications, 3-phase electric motors have reached broader adoption thanks to the availability of integrated power modules....  >>  

AC Motor Control White Papers :: Designing Home Appliances With FPGAs

The efficient use of electricity enables home appliances to minimize cost and preserve the environment. Most home appliances, such as refrigerators, washers and dryers, dishwashers, and air...  >>  

Lighting Application Notes :: Energy efficiency in solid-state lighting apps

Solid-state lighting (SSL) technology has great promise for significant gains in energy efficiency and huge overall energy savings. According to a 2005 study titled Energy Efficient Lighting...  >>  

Industrial Ethernet White Papers :: Industrial Power Over Ethernet (PoE)

Power over Ethernet (PoE) is an evolving technology designed to deliver power and transmit data on an Ethernet cable at the same time.By eliminating the power cords and the power infrastructure,...  >>  

Motor and Motion Control Application Notes :: Driving 3 Phase Brushless Motors

This application note is intended to help guide the development of brushless motor drive boxes and motor drive cards. These specialized designs include the microcontroller, the programmability...  >>  

Lighting White Papers :: LEDs and LED Driver Technology

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits incoherent narrow-spectrum light when electrically forward biased, resulting in a form of electro-luminescence. The color of the...  >>  

Motor and Motion Control White Papers :: Motor Drive Technical Papers

Motor Drive Technical Papers, Applications, Solutions, Design Support  >>  

DC Motor Control Application Notes :: Fairchild's FAN4800 Power Factor Correction (PFC) and PWM Controller Combo

The FAN4800 is a controller for power-factor-corrected, switched-mode power supplies.  >>  

Industrial Ethernet Application Notes :: 600 Series Industrial Ethernet Switch

The N-TRON 600 Series are product derivatives of the OSM/ESM family jointly manufactured by Siemens and N-TRON. The N-TRON 600 Series switches supports high speed layer 2 switching between ports,...  >>  

AC Motor Control Application Notes :: Motor Control with Wireless Sensors

A single hybrid architecture device incorporating both a Microcontroller (MCU) and a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) offers the peripherals and processing power needed to control electrical motors,...  >>  

Switched Reluctance Motor Control Application Notes :: Switch reluctance motor control with µPD78K0/KX2

This application note proposes how to implement a 4-Phase Switched Reluctance (SR) motor drive using the µPD78K0/KC2 along with an analogue Drive circuit. Schematic, bill of material and...  >>  

Industrial Ethernet White Papers :: FPGAs a Must for all Industrial Equipment Manufacturers.

This white paper describes the use of FPGA devices to deliver a multi-standard Industrial Ethernet capability from a single printed circuit board implementation. The benefits of FPGA implementation...  >>  

Sensor Signal Conditioning Application Notes :: Magnet Application Note MLX90316

The Magnet Application Note MLX90316 gives useful information about magnets for angular sensing with MLX90316 Triaxis sensor, and provides guidelines to select a magnet to be used in combination...  >>  

DC Motor Control White Papers :: Brush DC Motors Turning More Advanced

"Off-the-shelf" brush-commutated DC motors typically tend to serve as a "starting point," because virtually every application for a motor carries particular design and...  >>  

DC Motor Control Application Notes :: Jumper Configurable 400 Watt+ DC-to-DC Converter Fulfills Buck-Boost & Motor Drive Roles

This Application Note describes a novel DC converter design concept that uses the SA306-IHZ monolithic threephase switching amplifier1,2It can be thought of as a ‘black box’ module that...  >>  

Lighting Application Notes :: AAT1231 | Step-Up DC/DC Converter for White LED Backlight Applications

The AAT1231/1231-1 are high frequency, high efficiency constant current boost converters capable of 24V maximum output voltage. Both devices are ideal power solutions for backlight applications...  >>  

Zigbee Application Notes :: ZigBee / IEEE 802.15.4

The industry-leading CC2420 from Texas Instruments (TI) was the first single-chip, 2.4 GHz RF transceiver compliant with the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC and PHY used for ZigBee and the ZigBee...  >>  

Motor and Motion Control White Papers :: Ready-to-Use AC Induction Motor Controller IC for Low-Cost Variable Speed Applications

Recent advancements in PWM generation and control techniques have been combined with state-of-the-art control algorithms in a pre-programmed solution referred