If you’re lucky, the motor data sheet may have some of this information. But in many cases you’re on your own trying to figure out what they are. But don’t despair! TI has just released a new ...

Makers, hobbyists and developers that enjoy using the Raspberry Pi single board mini PC to build projects might be interested in a new motor controller and power management board called the Gertbot, ...

BridgeSwitch ICs provide a motor current output signal that maps the current passing through the low-side FREDFET. An internal sense-FET provides lossless current sensing. The solution is suitable for ...

Check out a new design kit Raspberry Pi-based motor control, from Ryanteck. The RTK Raspberry Pi Motor Controller Board (RTK-000-001), available from the Adafruit website, uses the module’s GPIO pins ...

Sometimes, you have to drive four motors, and you need to do so with a certain level of control. You could throw a lot of parts at the problem, but you don’t necessarily have to. As [Shaun Crampton] ...

Back in the olden days, the latest and greatest CNC machines had minicomputers bolted onto their frames, replete with paper tape readers and seven segment displays. For the home CNC machinist of today ...

Over three decades ago, real-time software was predominantly written in assembly language or a combination of assembly and the C programming language. Even today, certain digital signal processing ...

At last! Let’s take what we have learned so far and see how it applies to Field Oriented Control (FOC) systems. Figure 1 shows a typical field oriented system incorporating TI’s new FAST sensorless ...