To learn more about the MotionFire control platform and general interest regarding FPGA-based motor control, here is an interesting web-TV program presented by National Semiconductor.
This program shows Jeff Wimett, Sr. App. Eng. at Altera, and Steve Herhusky, FAE at Arrow, discussing about advantages brought to motor control system designers by integrating FPGA devices in their medical or industrial applications. […]
If you plan to attend the next Embedded World conference in Germany, don’t miss the opportunity to take a look at MotionFire and Falcon Eye demos to be respectively presented at Sasco Holz and EBV stands.
A very special and interesting FPGA-based multi-axis motor control demo is going to be shown by EBV with its ‘Man/Women versus Machine’ […]
If you look for some reference design on EBV’s Falcon Eye development board, you can take a look at this very well written and explained article done by researchers at University of Cologne, Germany.
Here is a good article on the subject from Actel…
While the article provides a general overview of variable-speed motor control drive importance in the industry , it also gives some interesting numbers :
“electronic motor control could result in savings of as much as 15% of the total electric power used in the US. This equates to an annual reduction in energy consumption […]
Here’s the press release.
In a recent article, Altera’s CEO, John Daane, has clearly expressed the idea that FPGA are well positionned to enable “technology which allows people to save energy“.
According to Daane, “66 per cent of the world’s industrial electricity runs motors, but only five per cent use variable speed drivers. FPGAs can be used in most motor […]