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The Most AWESOME Motors in the Whole World!
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsNext to the wheel, the electric motor is arguably the most significant object ever invented by man. Just try to find any other invention that...
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Using Ice-Cream Cones to make Sine Waves
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas Instruments I'm writing this blog the day after a very satisfying Thanksgiving holiday, and I still have food on my mind. So what does food have to do...
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At Last...Remote Debugging is HERE!
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsWhen I was a young engineer, I was involved in a pretty ugly incident with a three-phase power inverter. No, I didn't get hurt, but the...
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"Because the Computer Said So..."
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsOver the course of my 32 year career, I have seen the personal computer evolve from a Commodore VIC-20, to the dual core mobile workstation I...
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Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsEarlier this week, the federal government flexed its muscles and assumed control of all of the broadcast media in the United States. It was...
View ArticleSR Motors...Sinking Relevance or Suddenly Respectable?
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsSo what's going on with the Switched Reluctance motor? Everywhere I go, I see engineers huddled together in dark corners at parties or...
View ArticleOne Size Fits All
David Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsI HATE flying! The "one size fits all" mentality of the airline industry drives me nuts! For example, the TSA herds you like cattle through...
View ArticleGet the Fundamentals
David Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsAs an aspiring engineer in the late '70s, I once asked a senior mentor to tell me the secret of his great success as an engineer. After a...
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So, Which PWM Technique is Best? (part 4)
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsSo, which PWM technique is best for your motor control application? Up to now we have investigated three different PWM techniques. Some could...
View ArticleSimulation Power!
As many of you know, I am a BIG fan of using simulation tools to unlock the mysteries of the motor control universe. With embedded model-to-code options from VisSim, PSIM, PLECS and Simulink becoming...
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Teaching Your PI Controller to Behave (Part X)
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas Instruments Throughout this series we have discussed a practical and efficient way to tune the PI controllers in a cascaded velocity loop by simply...
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Teaching Your PI Controller to Behave (Part IX)
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsAt last! Let’s take what we have learned so far and see how it applies to Field Oriented Control (FOC) systems. Figure 1 shows a typical...
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The Ten Commandments of Digital Control (Part 2)
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsThis week, we are counting down to the number one commandment of digital control. Yesterday I discussed more generic issues related to...
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The Ten Commandments of Digital Control (part 1)
Other Parts Discussed in Post: LM324Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsDespite the fact that I now work for the Microcontroller Division of Texas Instruments; deep down, I still...
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The Most AWESOME Motors in the Whole World!
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsNext to the wheel, the electric motor is arguably the most significant object ever invented by man. Just try to find any other invention that...
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Using Ice-Cream Cones to make Sine Waves
Other Parts Discussed in Post: GRACEDave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas Instruments I'm writing this blog the day after a very satisfying Thanksgiving holiday, and I still have food on my...
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At Last...Remote Debugging is HERE!
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsWhen I was a young engineer, I was involved in a pretty ugly incident with a three-phase power inverter. No, I didn't get hurt, but the...
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"Because the Computer Said So..."
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsOver the course of my 32 year career, I have seen the personal computer evolve from a Commodore VIC-20, to the dual core mobile workstation I...
View ArticleIn the Event of an Actual Emergency...
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsEarlier this week, the federal government flexed its muscles and assumed control of all of the broadcast media in the United States. It was...
View ArticleSR Motors...Sinking Relevance or Suddenly Respectable?
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsSo what's going on with the Switched Reluctance motor? Everywhere I go, I see engineers huddled together in dark corners at parties or...
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