A brushless DC (BLDC) electric motor is likened to a motor with brushes, but turned “inside-out.” A BLDC motor has a rotor with permanent magnets and the stator contains the windings. Older motors ...

A Z-source Inverter (ZSI) is a DC-to-AC converter that can perform both buck and boost functions as a single stage. A unique attempt of ZSI is the shoot through state, by which two switches of the ...

Richard Garcia, Principal Applications Engineer, Intersil Corp. When it comes to battery-powered products like handheld power tools, portable medical equipment, or home-automation products, consumers ...