Brushed DC Motor Driver
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Exploring Supercapacitor-Powered Drones with a Custom Controller A hobbyist in the maker community recently shared an intriguing project: building a custom flight controller for a quadcopter drone powered by supercapacitors. This innovative endeavor investigates the feasibility of replacing traditional lithium-ion batteries with supercapacitors in drone technology. The drone uses supercapacitors as its primary power source, allowing for rapid… |
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Brushed or Brushless DC Motor? The broad world of DC motors has two basic categories: brushed and brushless. The brushed motor has been around since the 1830s (yes, that long!), and billions of them have been used successfully. However, the brushed motor also has many well-known drawbacks, including brush wear, electrical noise, and controllability issues. Despite these shortcomings,… |
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SmartMCD™ Series Gate Driver ICs Deliver Sensorless Control of Three-phase Brushless DC Motors Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation has begun the mass production of the SmartMCD™ Series, an innovative line of gate driver ICs featuring an embedded microcontroller (MCU). The inaugural product, "TB9M003FG," is specifically engineered for sensorless control of three-phase brushless DC motors utilized in various automotive applications such as water… |
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Hall Sensorless Sine-Wave PWM Predriver IC for 3-Phase Brushless Motor Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation has launched new TC78B011FTG that is a three-phase brushless DC motor control pre-driver IC designed for high-speed motors, including those used in server fans and blowers, and in the suction motors of cordless and robot vacuum cleaners. Moreover, this IC adopts a sine-wave drive method that does not use Hall sensor… |
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Fully Integrated 3-Phase MOSFET Gate Driver Optimized for BLDC Motor Drives TRINAMIC which is the part of Maxim Integrated has released a fully integrated TMC6140-LA three-phase MOSFET gate driver that simplifies design and maximizes battery life of brushless direct current (DC) motor drives. This high-performance device integrates three bottom shunt amplifiers to provide a complete motor drive solution with improved power efficiency.… |
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10A H-Bridge Motor Driver ICs with Dual Channel Support to Achieve Low Rds Value in Automotive Applications Toshiba Electronics has introduced two new brushed DC motor driver ICs - TB9054FTG and TB9053FTG to meet the rising demand for system miniaturization and cost reduction in automotive applications. Housed in 6.0 mm x 6.0 mm small QFN packages, these new motor drivers will help downsize automotive electronic control units (ECUs). Both TB9054FTG and TB9053FTG ICs are AEC-… |
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Low Power Brushed DC Motor Driver IC from Toshiba in Compact HSOP8 Package Toshiba Electronic Devices has added the TB67H451FNG Motor Driver IC to its lineup of low power consumption brushed DC motor driver ICs. The new IC comes in the popular pin-assignment HSOP8 package and features automatic return after over-current detection. Over-current detection is a safety function that prevents damage to the IC by turning off the output when the output… |
