Brushless DC (BLDC) motors offer some significant advantages over other categories of electric motors, such as brushed motors. Compared with the latter, which are cheaper, BLDC motors require a ...

Texas Instruments said the BLDC motor driver IC can reduce the footprint of the average motor systems in hybrid electric vehicles by around 30% and supply what it calls the industry's highest ...

The trend in the automotive industry is to replace mechanically actuated systems with systems based on electric motor technology. The traditional brushed dc motor is not suitable for many of these ...

Toshiba has launched two sine-wave pulse width modulated (PWM) drive controllers for three-phase brushless DC motors ...

Texas Instruments (TI) has claimed the industry’s first 70-W brushless DC (BLDC) motor drivers with code-free, sensorless trapezoidal and field-oriented control (FOC), reducing design time while ...

As motorized equipment accounts for more than 40% of global electricity consumption, motor efficiency is an extremely important issue for environmentally focused sustainable development. As a leading ...

Having reviewed the basics of BLDC motor control in Part 1, the design effort canbegin.. The first quest is to select a microcontroller. Looking in themarketplace there are several microcontrollers ...

Slotless motors have gone through innovations in design as well as manufacturing, making them a good choice for many. Here’s a look at the benefits and drawbacks of slotless motors and the background ...