Motor Drives, Robotics & Controls
December 2014
The counterfeiting of well-known brands and products is a growing problem, estimated to be five to seven percent of world trade. Among those well-known brands are consumer safety and critical electrical products, which can have threatening implications for workers and facilities.
The cost of counterfeiting
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Date:
12/30/2014
There is no Moore’s Law for passive components like capacitors, but relentless development is delivering the kinds of devices engineers need to deliver cutting-edge new products for modern living. Capacitors have for many years enabled electronic designers to manage energy within circuits and fulfill basic fu
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Date:
12/30/2014
Here are the results of an output capacitor benchmark study used in a step-down DC/DC converter design, based on a well-used control IC (Maxim’s MAX 1537 [1]) with a 6-24V input voltage range and two separate voltage outputs of 3.3 and 5V.
“Some 99 percent of so-called ‘design’ problems associated with linea
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Date:
12/30/2014
Vincent Mignard von Renesas
In diesem PSDcast Vincent Mignard von Renesas spricht mit Alix Paultre von Power Systems Design über die Probleme und Herausforderungen, die sich bei modernen Motor- und motion control heute. Renesas hat eine breite Palette von Produkten zu unterstützen, Motor Control, aus der 8-bit R8C-Produktfamilie für Lo
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12/23/2014
TMdrive-MVe2 variable-frequency drive
TMEIC announces their latest medium-voltage drive, the TMdrive-MVe2. The drive’s unique design supports higher-voltage motors without the need for an output transformer, and avoids many problems associated with older variable -requency drive designs, such as low efficiency, low input power factor, and output ha
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Date:
12/22/2014
Vincent Mignard of Renesas
In this podcast Vincent Mignard of Renesas talks to Alix Paultre of Power Systems Design about the issuses and challenges involved in advanced motor and motion control today. Renesas has assembled a wide lineup of products that can address motor control, from the 8-bit R8C Family for low-end applications, to th
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Date:
12/22/2014
A4963 sensorless BLDC controller
Allegro MicroSystems announced their latest three-phase, sensorless, brushless DC (BLDC) motor controller for use with external complementary P-channel and N-channel power MOSFETs. Reliable sensorless startup and run commutation can quickly be customized for individual motors and loads with adjustment of a few si
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Date:
12/17/2014
RSF / RSMF Series 3W and 5W resistors
Stackpole announces upgrades in the working voltage ratings for the RSF / RSMF Series 3W and 5W resistors. The RSF3 working voltage is improved from 400V to 800V, the RSMF3 working voltage is improved from 500V to 600V, and the RSF5 and RSMF5 working voltage is upgraded from 750V to 1000V.
This enhances the series
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Date:
12/16/2014
SPiiPlusCMHV is a line of EtherCAT master motion controllers with one/two axes of integrated drives
ACS Motion Control has launched a new control module that can manage networks with up to 32 axes and thousands of I/Os. The SPiiPlusCMHV is a line of EtherCAT master motion controllers with one/two axes of integrated drives that operate from 3 phase 230Vac to 480Vac, or 320Vdc to 670Vdc. The SPiiPlusCMHV line offe
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Date:
12/16/2014
Mouser Motor Control Applications site
Mouser Electronics announced the introduction of their new Motor Control Applications site. Mouser’s applications site provides developers with the resources they need to learn about the latest advances in motor control, and the newest components available from Mouser Electronics for building motor control sy
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Date:
12/16/2014
Crouzet Automation em4 remote PLC
Newark element14, a high-service distributor of technology products and engineering solutions, will now carry the em4, Crouzet Automation’s flagship remote PLC product series. The em4 remote PLC is designed with small machine-to-machine technology in mind, rather than an embedded web server, and can remotely co
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Date:
12/15/2014
ams, a leading provider of high performance sensors and analog ICs, added to its family of power management ICs (PMICs) for mobile multi-core ARM processors with the AS3722, which provides a complete power-control solution for Nvidia’s Tegra K1 mobile system-on-chip (SoC).
ams is also releasing the AS372
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Date:
12/15/2014
SBE is designing a fully size-and-performance compatible DC Link system for the HP Drive IGBT module
SBE is designing a fully size-and-performance compatible DC Link system for the HP Drive IGBT module in collaboration with Infineon. Both vertical and horizontal connection systems will be available. The vertical system is designed to occupy the same footprint as the HP Drive itself and the horizontal system wi
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Date:
12/12/2014
LAH04-10-000A Linear Voice Coil Actuator
BEI Kimco Magnetics announces the small, yet powerful model LAH04-10-000A Linear Voice Coil Actuator (VCA) as the latest addition to their extensive line of housed moving magnet actuators. With this newest model in the line-up, BEI Kimco's housed moving magnet actuator offering covers the size range from 0.375" to
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Date:
12/12/2014
Vishay Siliconix SiC789 and SiC788
Vishay Intertechnology introduced a new family of VRPower integrated DrMOS power stage solutions in three PowerPAK package sizes to meet the various design challenges in high-power and high-performance multiphase POL applications. The Vishay Siliconix SiC789 and the SiC788 are offered in the MLP66-40L with an In
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Date:
12/12/2014
Royalty-Free License of Package Design for Industry Use
Infineon Technologies announced the launch of two new power module platforms designed to improve the performance of high-voltage IGBTs in voltage classes from 1200V up to 6.5kV. To make the benefits of the new module broadly available, Infineon is offering a royalty-free license of the design to all providers of
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Date:
12/10/2014
EPCOS CeraLink capacitors
TDK announced their latest generation of EPCOS CeraLink capacitors, a highly compact solution for snubber and DC links of fast-switching converters based on SiC and GaN semiconductors. These new capacitors are based on the ceramic material PLZT (lead lanthanum zirconate titanate). In contrast to conventional ce
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Date:
12/09/2014
IDTechEx is launching Electric Vehicles: Everything will Change, showcasing emerging disruptive electric vehicle (EV) technologies. This event will showcase the advances made and planned by researchers and vehicle makers for land, water and air vehicles. This year we showcase the big new move to integration in
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Date:
12/09/2014
AEMC Power and Energy Data Logger
CAS DataLoggers released the flexible and powerful AEMC Power and Energy Data Loggers, ideal for electricians, engineers and contractors working in building/system monitoring and upgrades as well as residential energy audits. These cost-effective products have high speed and a removable SD memory to suit your spe
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Date:
12/09/2014
In diesem Episode von PSDtv Infineon erläutert die neuesten e-elektro-Lkw-Technologie Halbleitertechnologie für Power Systems Design auf der electronica 2014. Bergbau Fahrzeuge in dieser Demonstration unterstreichen die Fähigkeit zur Anwendung erweiterten Elektro- und hybrid-Fahrzeug durch modernste Tec
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Date:
12/09/2014
PFC (power-factor correction) circuit designers have used average current-mode control for decades (figure 1). Various analog PFC-control chips based on this control algorithm are available in the commercial market.
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Figure 1: Average-current-mode control for PFC
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Date:
12/03/2014
In diesem Episode von PSDtv Fairchild zeigt einen neuartigen Motion-Control- Lösung für Power Systems Design auf der electronica 2014.
In this video Fairchild demonstrates a novel motion-control solution for Power Systems Design at electronica 2014. This is a German-language presentation.
Fairchild
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Date:
12/03/2014
ATS push pin heat sinks
With 108,000 possible configurations, Advanced Thermal Solutions now provides the widest choice of push pin-mounted heat sinks for cooling BGAs and other hot components. More than 200 ATS heat sinks are available with convenient push pin mounting. The lightweight aluminum heat sinks include straight fin, cross-cut, an
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Date:
12/03/2014
EZ-Shield Can EMC protection screening products
Harwin, a leading hi-rel connector and SMT board hardware manufacturer, now offers its EZ-Shield Can EMC protection screening products in kit form, enabling designers to rapidly construct PCB cans at minimal cost for development purposes.
Harwin’s EZ-Shield Cans are simply pressed onto pre-positioned surface m
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Date:
12/03/2014
Some 4.9 billion connected “things” will be in use in 2015, up 30% from 2014, and will reach 25 billion by 2020, according to recent research from industry analyst Gartner. Designers from embedded electronics specialist, ByteSnap Design, are behind a range of M2M devices, from a Head-Up Display for motorcyclists, to
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Date:
12/01/2014
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