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Trends 2020: Feature-rich controllers tackle new applications

March 31, 2020 By Miles Budimir Leave a Comment

Controllers are central to motion control systems. They’re often referred to as the brains of the system, evaluating feedback from the environment and responding in accordance with a control program to complete an assigned task. Today’s controllers have more built-in functions, are more powerful, and are being used in diverse applications. We asked some of […]

Filed Under: Controls, Featured Tagged With: ACS Motion Control, maxon, Omron, texas instruments

Texas Instruments expands DRV8x motor driver series

April 24, 2012 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

Texas Instruments Inc. (www.ti.com) has added three new low-voltage devices to its DRV8x motor driver portfolio. Ideally suited for stepper and brushed DC motors, the DRV8834, DRV8835 and DRV8836 motor drivers offer a wide, low-voltage operating range, ultra-low sleep currents and low RDS(ON), effectively reducing power consumption by as much as 80 percent. This improves […]

Filed Under: Drives + Supplies, Motors, Stepper Motors Tagged With: texas instruments

TI unveils new Stellaris ARM Cortex-M microcontroller motor control kit

December 19, 2011 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

Texas Instruments Incorporated (www.ti.com) has expanded its motor control solutions portfolio with the addition of DK-LM3S-DRV8312, which is a motor control kit suitable for spinning three-phase brushless motors with a Stellaris Cortex-M3 microcontroller (MCU). Offering 32-bit Stellaris LM3S818 microcontroller, the new motor control kit also comes with DRV8312 motor driver to spin 6.5A, sub-50V three-phase […]

Filed Under: Controls Tagged With: texas instruments

TI’s highly integrated pre-driver reduces board space

September 13, 2011 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

Texas Instruments Incorporated (www.ti.com) has unveiled the first in a new range of integrated three-phase brushless motor pre-drivers, the DRV8301. This highly integrated pre-driver offer reduced board space by as much as 60 percent than the closest integrated solution. Its ability to drive sub-10-A to 60-A external FETs enables it to provide greater efficiency, current […]

Filed Under: Drives + Supplies, Motors Tagged With: texas instruments, three-phase brushless gate driver

Texas Instruments introduces new AM1810 Sitara ARM MPU

December 28, 2010 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

Texas Instruments Incorporated (www.ti.com) is proud to announce the launch of its all-new AM1810 Sitara ARM microprocessor (MPU) – a new single-chip ARM9 solution with an embedded PROFIBUS interface – the most popular fieldbus used for communications among factory automation equipment. This embedded, low-power tool removes the need for an external ASIC, FPGA or PROFIBUS, […]

Filed Under: Controls, Fieldbuses, Networking + IoT, PLCs + PACs Tagged With: Fieldbus, mpu, profibus, texas instruments, ti

TI introduces programmable ARM9 SOC in Profibus version

December 16, 2010 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

Texas Instruments (www.ti.com) is proud to launch a new addition to its industrial-focused, ARM9-based Sitara AM1x system-on-chip (SoC) family with an integrated Profibus interface. Clocked to 375 MHz, the new AM1810 Sitara includes EtherCAT support and comes with a Linux-ready development module. The AM1810 Sitara is optimally ideal for use in human machine interface (HMI) […]

Filed Under: Fieldbuses, Networking + IoT Tagged With: EtherCAT, profibus, SoC, texas instruments

TI introduces new DRV8412 evaluation kit

December 7, 2010 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

Texas Instruments Incorporated (www.ti.com) is pleased to introduce its all-new DRV8412 evaluation kit (DRV8412-C2-KIT) – a new line of scalable evaluation platforms intended for spinning motors. The kit includes all of the software and hardware needed to spin a single stepper motor or two brushed DC motors out of the box. It also speeds up […]

Filed Under: Motors, Robotics, Stepper Motors Tagged With: texas instruments

GAO Embedded unveils low-voltage servo motors driver

September 3, 2010 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

GAO Embedded (www.GAOEmbedded.com) is proud to introduce the new low-voltage servo motor driver intended for high-performance DMC systems. Based on the TMS320F2812 DSP from Texas Instruments (www.ti.com), the servo motor driver is part of a fast and reliable servo motor driver solution that comprises three parts: the LVD (driver part), the IB2812 (interface part) and […]

Filed Under: Motors, Servo Motors Tagged With: texas instruments, tms320f2812

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