Precision Motor Control for a Smarter Future
Achieve unmatched efficiency, reliability, and protection with Broadcom’s advanced motor drive and control solutions.
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No time for downtime – motor drive and control solutions from Broadcom, keeping motors moving for over 30 years
Broadcom offers a wide range of product solutions for motor drive and control subsystems. Delivering superior efficiency, reliability and accuracy with unmatched protection.
As industries worldwide gear up for Industry 4.0, there is a renewed focus on energy efficiency for electric motors, which places new technical challenges at the component level concerning power, size, performance, reliability and safety. Modern motors are expected to drive more current while delivering high efficiency, reliability and accuracy with optimal high voltage protection. Broadcom has amassed a unique portfolio of products like optocouplers, fiber optic solutions and motion control encoders, that address the various technical challenges faced by motor system designers today. There is no time for downtime!
Motor drive & control solutions
Broadcom advantage in factory automation/motor control
Encoders
Optical and magnetic encoders meet stringent positioning and velocity sensing requirements in industrial drives. Multi-turn absolute encoders integrate patented energy harvesting technology for maintenance-free operation. Compact size and hollow shaft designs offer maximum space savings.
Isolation
Highly integrated gate drive optocouplers reduce system BOM costs, size, and power while increasing inverter efficiency. Isolation amplifiers with integrated sigma-delta technology enable effective control and fault management in current and voltage sensing applications. Unmatched high voltage isolation and compliance to safety standards.
Fiber optic components and transceivers
The fiber optic short link family provides certified high-voltage on-board isolation Versatile link Tx/Rx components offer real-time monitoring and adjustment of power transistor switching rates in IGBT controllers. Extended temperature, low power, fiber optic transceivers offer the best signal integrity in noisy factory automation environments.
Sensors
Compact, highly integrated ToF sensors are ideal for detection, switching, and distance measurements commonly found in factory automation. Robust industrial-grade solutions offer advantages over commercial-grade products. Proximity and gesture sensors can be easily integrated into human machine interfaces.
LED’s and displays
Long history of industrial-grade components for indicator and display applications in factory automation. The newest portfolio of infrared LEDs and detectors offers optimum performance in safety curtain and general object detection systems.
Broadcom industrial products
Optocouplers for high reliability and safety in your system
- Gate drive optocouplers for driving IGBT and SiC/GaN MOSFETs in inverter applications
- Isolation amplifiers for current and voltage measurement in motor drive subsystems
Robust encoders for precision feedback
- High-accuracy absolute and incremental encoders for positional feedback in factory automation
Industrial fiber communication for best signal integrity in noisy factory automation environments
- Fiber optic and copper transceivers for Ethernet communication in factory networks with real-time monitoring and operation in high temperature environments
- Fiber optic short link and versatile Link transmitters and receivers for communication in high transient voltage applications
LEDs, displays and sensors for human machine interfaces & safety applications
- Long history of industrial grade components for indicator and display applications in factory automation
- Infrared LEDs and detectors offer optimum performance in safety curtain and general object detection systems
Resources
Achieve fast and accurate over-current detection using optically coupled sigma-delta modulators
In an industrial motor control system, sensing and feedback of various parameters such as motor phase, DC bus current and voltage, torque, direction, and speed are required for proper operation of the system. As the trend of the system moves towards higher precision, power, speed, multi-axis, and multi-directional, these requirements become increasingly important. As the motor encoder measures the torque, speed, and direction, the sigma-delta modulator provides high accuracy, high linearity, wide dynamic range, fast-response current, and voltage sensin