Hackaday

AC Motor Converted Into DC EBike Powerplant

AC induction motors are everywhere, from ceiling fans to vehicles. They’re reliable, simple, and rugged — but there are some disadvantages. It’s difficult to control the speed ...
EDN

3-phase Sensorless BLDC Motor Control Development Kit

This application note describes a three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motor control using a sensorless algorithm. This cost-effective solution is based on the Freescale Semiconductor MPC5606B device, a ...
Electronic Design

Sensorless BLDC Driver First to Support Full Torque at Zero Speed

Brushless DC (BLDC) motors offer many operating attributes in performance and controllability, but they may require a position (rotation) sensor such as an encoder, resolver, or Hall-effect device to ...
EDN

Renesas’ Low-cost R8C/25-based Motor Control Reference Platform Accelerates the Design of Brushl

Renesas Technology America, Inc. has announced the R8C/25-based BLDC (brushless DC) Motor Control Reference Platform (MCRP). The new platform allows engineers to quickly bring the latest motor control ...