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22 BLDC motors offer significant performance advantages over their brushless counterparts. In fact, they are the future of many applications. As you begin or continue your BLDC design journey, look for manufacturers and resources that simplify development, solve design challenges, and reduce development costs: • Partner with manufacturers with strong expertise in both electronic design and embedded software development. For best results, design the motor and controller in tandem to optimize cost and performance efficiency. For this reason, a manufacturer that has expertise in both areas is important. • Select manufacturers that offer extensive support. Rather than designing from scratch, look to a manufacturer's development kits, evaluation and testing products, dedicated seminars and workshops, schematics, reference designs, and user documentation as starting points. Knowledgeable, responsive human support is important as well. • Identify controller characteristics, such as adaptive dead time, slew rate control, and voltage and current protection, that enable precise control and operational efficiency for your application. Similarly, get to know how you can use each characteristic to the advantage of your BLDC application. • Utilize resources that simplify controller development. Here, open source software, intelligent peripherals that reduce coding, and extensive algorithm libraries can reduce the expertise you need for controller development. • Choose integrated power management and motor drivers. They can ease design challenges, reduce hardware space needs, and simplify the bill of materials. Manufacturer Characteristics Chapter Five Chapter Five: Manufacturer Characteristics "A straightforward design comes from proper support of the experts in the chosen component. These aspects always help in a smoother product development process." Pyter Ely da Silva Hardware Engineer, Whirlpool Corporation