Advanced Motor Driver Serves Both Industrial and Consumer Apps

June 24, 2022

The BridgeSwitch device family from Power Integrations simplifies the development and production of high-voltage inverter-driven single- or multi-phase PM and BLDC motor drives.

Alix Paultre

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The BridgeSwitch family developed by Power Integrations simplifies the development and production of high-voltage inverter-driven single- or multi-phase permanent-magnet and BLDC motor drives. The devices' high efficiency and distributed thermal footprint architecture eliminates the need for a heatsink, while also reducing system cost and weight. In addition, built-in hardware motor overcurrent protection enhances safety and reliability.

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About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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