Garden and Power Tools

Single Gate Driver Design Enables Wide Range of Battery Voltages for Various Motor Power Levels

April 10, 2023

P0239 - This article discusses the challenges of trying to accommodate wide-ranging battery voltages and motor powers in a single driver design.

Single-Platform Design Can Reduce the Cost of Research and Development for Cordless Power Tools

June 30, 2022

P0193 - Power Tool engineers are duplicating resources with current product designs as they often use different motor drivers, manufacturers, design layouts for each product variation. This article reviews options to utilize a single platform in a wide array of applications – saving design time ...

Modern Motor Drivers Enable a Common Platform for Power Tool Designs

April 15, 2022

Our brushless DC motor drivers help you design a common platform to address both high power and lower power designs. We integrate functions to allow for a single-platform approach, reducing engineering development cycles and improving time to market.

Enhancements to Slide-By Detection with Linear Sensors

AN296200 - This application note presents a modified solution to magnetic sensing in long stroke applications. Through the incorporation of a microcontroller, a lower cost solution can be realized with fewer linear sensors than previously existing arc tangent solutions.

Advanced Algorithm Minimizes Stepper Motor Noise and Vibration in Precision Motion Control Applications

April 26, 2021

Stepper motors offer unique advantages over direct current (DC) and brushless DC (BLDC) motors in many applications. A bipolar stepper provides accurate open-loop position as well as zero-speed torque without using a control loop or external sensors.

Innovative Motor Control

With decades of experience, our embedded motion control algorithms in our motor driver ICs simplify designs while improving motor performance and time to market. Download brochure to learn more.

Innovative FOC Motor Control: Improve Time to Market by Eliminating Software Development

This paper will focus on the basics of the sensorless control algorithm, the advantages of different sensing techniques, and how the GUI can drive a full-featured sensorless sinusoidal BLDC motor with no software programming required.

A Scalable Approach to Power Tool Designs

Achieve all of your design goals for voltage and power levels with a single-platform architecture by combining Allegro drivers, sensors, and regulators.

Bootstrap Supply and Circuit Guidelines

This application note describes the operation of the bootstrap circuit and guidelines in selecting a bootstrap capacitance value to ensure normal operation of the gate drives.

Estimating Maximum MOSFET Switching Frequency

AN296216 - This application note describes how to calculate the maximum power MOSFET switching frequency in BLDC motor gate drives.

Allegro Current Sensor ICs: Unique Packaging Options for Every Thermal Budget

AN296190 - The data contained within this application note allows the user to effectively choose an Allegro current sensor package based on their system’s specifications.

Driving Inductive Loads

This application note outlines common techniques and challenges in the employment of a single half-bridge driver configuration to control current in a simple two-terminal inductive load.

Latching Switch Hall-Effect IC Basics

There are four general categories of Hall-effect IC devices that provide a digital output: unipolar switches, bipolar switches, omnipolar switches, and latches. Latching Hall-effect sensor ICs, often referred to as "latches," are digital output Hall-effect switches that latch output states.

Micro-Power Position Sensing in Cell Phone Applications

This note will show how to use the Allegro™ A1171 in a standard flip or slide phone, as well as techniques for sensing three positions using only one magnet and one Hall device in a multipurpose application.

Position and Level Sensing Using Hall-Effect Sensing Technology

This paper introduces Hall-effect technology, then explores how it has been applied, in particular, differentiating between the primary types of Hall sensor ICs and the highly differentiated range of sensing behaviors they can support.