For the PDF version of this article, click here. New industrial and appliance motor drives have become more advanced in performance and more compact in size. This is largely due to advancement in ...

When selecting the appropriate power switches for motor control applications designers are tasked with balancing performance requirements and total system costs. When system costs are the highest ...

Pulse-width modulation (PWM) is an efficient method for controlling the light intensity of a lamp or the speed of a simple DC motor. It lets you take advantage of the load's inertia by switching the ...

Variable speed drives (VSDs), sometimes also known as variable frequency drives, are electronic devices used to regulate the speed of an ac induction motor. Electric motors consume approximately 25% ...

The increase in the adoption of engine control, smart grid, and smart home technology and the increased need for high-voltage devices have fostered the growth of the global gate driver market. A ...