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Qorvo’s compact ACT72350 BLDC motor driver manages power, processes analog signals, and provides power signals for robotics, drones, and other applications.

Learn how a modular development platform helps designers solve processor selection challenges and accelerate prototyping for both MCUs and MPUs.

Design precise yet flexible fixed-in-place robotics using advanced control, imaging, sensing, and communications technologies.

Solid-state relay (SSR) problems can stem from the improper design parameters: thermal management, switching type, current rating, and overvoltage protection.

The accelerating trend towards point-of-care medical tests and assessments requires sophisticated, application-focused analog front-end and data security ICs.

Learn how the Advantech iDAQ-784 DAQ module solves high-speed synchronization challenges in industrial robotics and motion control applications.

Designers need flexible and application-focused analog front-end, motion-control, and authentication ICs to realize point-of-care medical test benefits.

A look at recently developed smart motor controls, including modular contactors and overload relays, detailing their protective functions and self-diagnostics.

A discussion of several considerations when specifying motors, drives, and communications modules, along with examples of application, hardware, and protocol.

A review of the motor control options available from Schneider Electric provide designers with end-to-end automation solutions.

A discussion of the differences between VSDs/VFDs and servo drives and a review of the uses for servo motors and soft start-stop units in industrial operations.

A look at selecting motor connection cables and the factors that impact the selection of output reactors, braking resistors, line reactors, and line filters.

Definitions of VSDs and VFDs and a review of the efficiency classes defined in IEC 61800-9 for AC drives.

An overview of Variable Speed Drives and how preprogrammed macros and devices can support agile commissioning, efficient operation, and ongoing maintenance.

Motion and control products work together to manage the movement, speed, and position of mechanical elements within electronic applications.

A unified and cybersecure Industry 4.0 deployment requires many levels of connectivity starting on the factory floor with the control of individual devices.

The Altivar Soft Starter ATS480 is critical for the smooth start and stop of multi-horsepower AC motors and features robust connectivity and cybersecurity.

Follow along as Pearl City High School students embark on their robotics adventure. Part 1 explores the early phases of building and coding their rover.

Single-axis variable speed drives (VSDs) are essential in industrial applications that have simple motion sequences and require efficient VSDs.

Power switching devices based on GaN process technology offer higher efficiency, smaller size, and enhanced thermal performance for mid-range motor inverters.