Motor control centers (MCCs) were first introduced in 1937 as a way to conserve wall and/or floor space in industrial facilities. Before 1960, wall-mounted motor starters were used even if only a few ...

Renesas Electronics Corp. has claimed the industry’s first RISC-V microcontroller (MCU) that is optimized for advanced motor control systems. The turnkey solution delivers a pre-programmed RISC-V ASSP ...

Called Spin it!, the kit is a single-board low-voltage motor control development platform designed specifically for the firm’s 16bit 78K0R/Ix3 microcontrollers. The controllers include an internal ...

Graceful Shutdown: Ensuring the motor and controller are shut down safely when the application is stopped. If the application operates on a multicore MCU/DSP/FPGA, an appropriate inter-core ...

Companies may be still selling 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers by the bucketful, but the more powerful 32-bit RISC controller is finding its way into a wider range of general purpose control ...

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we presented a 3-phase, 480VAC motor circuit with its associated controls (Figure). We stepped through a logical, systematic approach to troubleshoot the main power ...

Renesas has added a hardware motor control accelerator to 32bit microcontrollers that already achieve a 1,160 CoreMark from EEMBC – the highest score for a 5V MCU operating at 200MHz, claims Renesas.

Sophisticated motor control is no longer the sole province of custom hardware and proprietary control techniques. Advances in powerful, low-cost digital-signal controllers (DSCs) let designers use ...