AC inverter & VF drives

Our single and multi-core microcontrollers (MCUs) with integrated real-time motor control peripherals, math accelerators, programmable real-time processors, and configurable logic blocks enable:

• Hot-side and cold-side controlled architectures with low latency and high bandwidth chip-to-chip interface.
• Accurate and robust sensorless torque and speed control.
• Parallel execution of control, communication and predictive maintenance algorithms.
• Less than 1us compute time for FOC and direct torque control to achieve highest energy efficiency class IES2 per IEC 61800-9. 
• Single-chip MCU with integrated industrial communication and real-time control peripherals remove the need for external FPGA.

Explore our broad portfolio of isolated and non-isolated IGBT and SiC-FET gate drivers and high-efficiency power management products, enabling hot- and cold-side controlled 3-phase power stages with highest efficiency up to IES2 per IEC61800-9 standard.

Our accurate isolated current and voltage sensing products help you achieve sensorless control including advanced motor diagnostics for predictive maintenance. Use our isolation devices with increased lifetime and isolation ratings to help you meet IEC 61800-5-1 isolation requirements.

• Improve system performance and robustness: Our high-voltage certified isolated products offer low latency, excellent common-mode transient immunity and robust performance.
• Lower system cost: Our isolation technologies reduce bill of materials, lowering system cost and enabling significant solution size improvements.
• Scalability: Our packaging innovations and globally-owned manufacturing footprint help bring functional, basic, and reinforced isolation capabilities to more analog IC functions. 

Most modern systems now come with communication interfaces which can create new challenges. We support a wide range of industrial communication standards – from EtherCAT and EtherNet/IP to Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), PROFINET and more – enabling connectivity and scalability to help meet the needs of current industry trends.

Supporting products include:

• Integrated real-time Ethernet and absolute encoder protocols.
• Integrated TSN functions.
• Integrated functional safety capabilities to support functional safety over industrial Ethernet, including encoders (FSoE, PROFIsafe, HDSL safety), and programmable logic to support custom interfaces and communication protocols.

Our Functional Safety-Compliant products leverage our TÜV SÜD-certified functional safety hardware and software development processes that helps you achieve the highest Safety Integrity Level and Performance Level your motor drive design requires to create safer and efficient environments.

Our integrated products and TÜV-assessed designs help you design smaller, smarter and more reliable safety functions such as Safe Torque Off (STO).