Infineon has expanded its range of application kits that support design of energy-efficient motor drives employing the company's 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers. The focus of the kits is ease of use, according to Jiirgen Hoika, senior product-marketing manager of the company's industrial- and multimarket-microcontroller group. The kits include comprehensive tools and scalable reference designs.rnThe company based the new kits on members of the 8-bit XC800 and 16-bit XE166 families; they allow y"ou to implement techniques such as FOC (field-oriented control) and power-factor control to obtain quiet and efficient designs. You need specific architectures to execute these techniques, Hoika says, but you can use an 8-bit device-when it has dedicated additional processing with a vector-computation block. A 16-bit control-rnler, with a suitable architecture, runs two motors with both FOC and power-factor control.
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