Brush DC Drivers

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.

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.

Brochure: Full-Bridge Gate Drivers for Automotive and Industrial Applications

The solid-state A89505 and A89506 are designed for a range of vehicle applications, including various actuators, EV charger locks, electronic parking brakes, and folding mirrors.

Microstepping Motor-Driver IC with Integrated Step and Direction Translator Interface

A new series of microstepping motor driver integrated circuits with an integrated step and direction translator interface has been developed specifically by to drive bipolar stepper motors. These new ICs incorporate several unique design features, including automatic mixed-mode current decay ...

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.

Brochure: Driving EV Powertrains

With the industry’s largest portfolio of grade 0, 80V motor drivers, Allegro’s suite of fully integrated gate drivers effectively address the critical need for efficient, flexible, reliable solutions for your hybrid and electric vehicles (EV).

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.

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.

Common Driver Platform for 12V and 48V Systems Simplifies EV Starter Generator Designs

This article discusses how using a common platform for both 12V and 48V starter generator systems will simplify and ease the transition to 48V solutions, as the electrical revolution continues to transform the automotive industry.