Modern Power Management ICs for Multi-rail Sequencing and Reliability
Modern PMICs go beyond supervision, integrating multi-rail sequencing, power-fail detection, and battery backup to improve system reliability.
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Modern PMICs go beyond supervision, integrating multi-rail sequencing, power-fail detection, and battery backup to improve system reliability.
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Start and run capacitors play a major role in single-phase AC motor operation by providing the necessary phase shift for startup and maintaining running torque.
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Routing and protecting the constantly moving and flexing power and signal cables for robotics is a significant challenge requiring versatile solutions.
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Customers have diverse choices and must weigh many trade-offs when selecting a feedback encoder for their motor.
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Traction motors for electric vehicles, railroad locomotives, and similar applications are designed to provide high torque at start-up under full load.
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The widely used linear version of the rotary BLDC motor offers distinct advantages, despite several caveats.
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Motor controllers offer advanced, precise control of position, speed, and acceleration. Explore unipolar vs. bipolar drive configurations for stepper motors.
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Engineers have many viable options for contact-based temperature measurement, each offering tradeoffs among key performance parameters.
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Explore the differences between unipolar and bipolar drive configurations for stepper motors, focusing on wiring, performance, and applications.
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Field-oriented control offers improved efficiency and superior control of torque and other performance parameters, but at a computational cost.
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The first gasoline cars had no electric motors. Fast forward, all of today's cars have dozens of “invisible” motors and controllers.
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Selecting the right motor size and type can be a challenge, and deciding between brushed or brushless configurations is one of the critical decisions.
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Enabling renewable energy through effective energy storage.
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Renewable energy is an increasingly attractive source, but it needs an associated energy storage system to be truly effective.
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: Using a resistor for current sensing is very simple—as long as real-world issues and trade-offs are understood and resolved.
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New-generation air-quality sensors advance integrated industrial-automation solutions while dramatically lowering power consumption. Their small size, low cost, and low power bring benefits and...
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Hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and all-electric vehicle (EV) designs are highly visible these days, but there is also a less-apparent but significant trend in the automotive industry: adding a 48V...
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Switching devices-both transistors and diodes-based on silicon-on-carbide (SiC) are redefining capabilities of power-related circuits. These offer far
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Electronics, motors, motion control, and grips get most of the attention in robotic-arm discussions, but it's the routing of mundane power and data ca
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Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADASs) are becoming increasingly standard due to regulatory mandates, "feature creep,� and user preferences.
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