Motor Drives, Robotics & Controls

December 2019

The successful team Thomas Hammerschmidt (left) and Yury Lysogorskiy.

Bochum Team Wins 2nd Place in Machine-Learning Competition

Ruhr-University Bochum

With their algorithm for material-property prediction, Dr. Yury Lysogorskiy and Dr. Thomas Hammerschmidt of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation Icams of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) won the second place in an international competition on machine learning. The secret of their success wa

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12/23/2019

SiC Gate Driver Provides Best-in-Class Power Efficiency

With the MAX22701E isolated gate driver from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., designers of high-voltage/high-power systems can improve power supply efficiency by up to 4 percentage points over competitive solutions, reducing power loss and the resulting carbon footprint by 30 percent. The driver IC is intended f

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12/17/2019

World's Smallest Photocouplers for Industrial and Solar

Renesas Electronics Corporation announced five new 8.2mm creepage photocouplers that are the world’s smallest isolation devices for industrial automation equipment and solar inverters. With a package width of 2.5mm, the RV1S92xxA and RV1S22xxA photocouplers reduce PCB mounting area by 35 percent compared to co

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12/12/2019

Renesas and Minebea Mitsumi Collaborate on Stepping Motors

Renesas Electronics Corporation and MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. announced the joint development of resolver-based (angle sensor) stepping motor and motor control solutions optimized for use in robots, office automation (OA) equipment, and medical/nursing care equipment. These applications require motors with higher pre

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12/11/2019

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Figure 1. Programmable Logic Controller Module

Power Your PLC with a Small POL Module

Nazzareno (Reno) Rossetti & John Woodward, Maxim Integrated

The vision of the smart factory is a reality in many industries, thanks to advancements in automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. Factory floors are filled with controllers, sensors, I/Os, and actuators. A controller can be a programmable logic controller (PLC, Figure 1), motor/motion controller, or a

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12/04/2019

Synchronous Buck Regulators Offer Peak Efficiencies of 98%

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced two new families of 2 A to 12 A microBUCK synchronous buck regulators featuring wide input voltage ranges from 4.5 V to 55 V (SiC476/7/8/9) and 4.5 V to 60 V (SiC466/7/8/9). Combining rugged high performance n-channel trench MOSFETs with a controller in the compact 5x5 PowerPAK

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12/02/2019