Manchester, New Hampshire, USA - Allegro MicroSystems (Allegro), a global leader in sensing technology and power semiconductor solutions for motion control and energy-saving systems, announced that it has shipped its 3 billionth motor driver chip, a testament to Allegro's efforts in motion control. business strength. Allegro's trusted and highly reliable motor drives have helped customers around the world develop safer, more powerful, and more reliable motor drive solutions for electric vehicles, data, automotive, industrial, and consumer applications Central servers, cordless power tools and other products.
The accelerating pace of electrification and advanced driver assistance systems in the automotive industry is directly driving the demand for high-performance motor drives. Allegro motor drives reduce noise, increase efficiency and integrate more functions, enabling designers to reduce component count and reduce overall system cost. Automakers need products that can handle the harsh conditions inside today's vehicles, while meeting higher safety standards, helping to extend battery life between charge cycles, and reducing system weight. Allegro's advanced motor drives are used in critical applications in the automotive industry, including cooling fans, starter generators, transmissions and advanced 48-volt battery systems.
Over the past decade, there has also been a huge demand for battery-powered devices in the industrial sector, with a focus on increasing the runtime between charges for a variety of applications, such as robots that perform order picking in warehouses. This trend is also reflected in consumer products such as cordless power tools, which are rapidly replacing legacy cord models. Allegro's motor drivers meet or exceed customer needs by integrating more features, reducing package size, and improving ease of use, enabling manufacturers to reduce costs, simplify bills of materials (BOMs), and achieve more in industrial and consumer applications. Small form factor.
Allegro believes that the recent momentum of the company's motor drive business is largely due to the focus on building partnerships with customers and close cooperation for mutual development, some of which span more than two decades. By working more closely with customers, the Allegro team is often able to develop single-chip solutions for a variety of different applications, enabling many customers to move to a single platform supporting multiple product lines, which can be used for products with multiple voltage requirements such as electric tools and lawn trimming tools) companies save a lot of money.
Steve Lutz, Director of Electric Motors (Automotive) at Allegro, said: “We are able to increase customer value by helping customers reduce time-to-market and development cycles. The success of our customers is our success, and this strategy has inspired us to develop Innovative motor drive products. In the future, we will continue to make breakthroughs in new product development to reduce energy consumption, extend battery life and minimize carbon emissions.”
In recent years, Allegro has been increasing its R&D investment in motor drivers to further enhance the combination of embedded motion control IP at a deeper level. Introduced in 2019, Allegro's QuietMotionTM motor drivers include the first-to-market Field Oriented Control (FOC) brushless DC (BLDC) motor controller that requires no customer coding. These devices are designed to provide reliable and efficient low audible noise performance while reducing design cycles through simple parameter settings that users can access using an intuitive graphical user interface.
Andy Wang, Allegro Motors (Industrial) Product Line Director, explains: "Many of our customers, especially those in fast-growing emerging markets, lack the resources for software development specific to motor drives and often rely on freelance and contractor programmers. We can help these customers significantly reduce the development burden by embedding code directly into the IC, which helps them get to market faster."
Allegro products are designed to help customers address global challenges related to carbon emissions and energy efficiency, as well as clean, renewable energy, and thereby create positive environmental and social outcomes. Allegro takes a sustainability-first approach to semiconductor design and manufacturing, integrating sustainability practices throughout the company's supply chain and operations. In addition to hybrid and electric vehicles, Allegro motor drives can be used in other applications that reduce environmental impact, including solar arrays, data center cooling fans, high-efficiency HVAC systems, and more.
To help customers better meet their changing needs, Allegro plans to introduce several new motor drivers in the coming year. These new devices will have new and expanded capabilities to help customers further extend battery life and continue the single platform approach while reducing overall system cost.
Allegro offers a wide range of brushless, brushed and stepper motor drivers for consumer, industrial and automotive applications
