For IGBTs, the on-state voltage drop is a critical specification to consider. This drop includes both the diode drop across ...

Electric motors, which convert electrical energy into mechanical energy, play an essential role in a variety of industrial and robotics applications. Given that electric motors account for ...

An H-bridge (full-bridge) driver is quite popular in driving loads such as brushed DC motors and it is widely used in robotics and industry. The main advantages of using an H-bridge driver are high ...

Magnachip’s TOLT-packaged 80-V MOSFET helps improve thermal management and power efficiency for motor-control systems in e-scooters and light electric vehicles. The new 80-V MXT MV MOSFET, dubbed the ...

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 ...

For the PDF version of this feature, click here. In most modern power semiconductor applications there is a need to carefully manage heat. This is true in fields as diverse as mobile communications, ...

Designing robots requires precision and flexibility. When creating a humanoid robot system, there are mechanical and electrical considerations that you need to understand before beginning the actual ...