Motor control centers (MCCs) were first introduced in 1937 as a way to conserve wall and/or floor space in industrial facilities. Before 1960, wall-mounted motor starters were used even if only a few ...

Got a motor down? No matter how urgent the problem — and motor failure can cause some very urgent problems — always develop a plan of attack before you start repair work. Gather up any background ...

Graceful Shutdown: Ensuring the motor and controller are shut down safely when the application is stopped. If the application operates on a multicore MCU/DSP/FPGA, an appropriate inter-core ...

Called Spin it!, the kit is a single-board low-voltage motor control development platform designed specifically for the firm’s 16bit 78K0R/Ix3 microcontrollers. The controllers include an internal ...

Renesas Electronics Corp. has claimed the industry’s first RISC-V microcontroller (MCU) that is optimized for advanced motor control systems. The turnkey solution delivers a pre-programmed RISC-V ASSP ...

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its phases. In a ...

Hitachi has introduced a 32-bit Risc microcontroller which has a processing speed of 65MIPS Dhrystone and offers 256kbyte of embedded full-speed flash memory and 8kbyte of RAM. It features a motor ...

The way we control the speed of fan motors or pump motors has tremendously changed in the past two decades with the introduction of variable-frequency drives (VFDs), aka variable-frequency controllers ...

Companies may be still selling 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers by the bucketful, but the more powerful 32-bit RISC controller is finding its way into a wider range of general purpose control ...