Conference Proceeding

A new procedure and driver to control brushless micromotors

Dept. of Electron., Univ. of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
01/2010; DOI:10.1109/ICECS.2009.5410788 pp.719 - 722 In proceeding of: Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 2009. ICECS 2009. 16th IEEE International Conference on
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ABSTRACT It is presented a new method to control brushless micromotors which eliminates freewheeling currents. To test the method, a new driver has been designed and fabricated in a 0.35 ¿m standard CMOS process. It is shown in the paper how the driver is effectively reducing the freewheeling currents.

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Keywords

control brushless micromotors
 
eliminates freewheeling currents
 
fabricated
 
new driver
 
¿m standard CMOS process