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

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 ...

Isolated IGBT gate driver requires isolated power supply for safety isolation and level shifting. Unfortunately design of isolated power supply based on standard power control IC is not trivial.

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% ...