Custom Drive Electronics

MACCON offers a wide range of drive electronics products to control and drive electric motors. These motor controllers and power stages allow the implementation of many standard or unusual applications.

However it is very common that the customer requires products from us, which are not otherwise available from the marketplace. Typically we are asked for special characteristics, such as:

Dimensions
Improved performance
Supply conditions
Special environmental conformance
Mechanical and electrical interfaces
Integration of several components in a new configuration or product,
see: Embedded Motion
Additional functionality
Higher reliability or redundancy

For this reason, we offer bespoke drive electronics for such cases. Bespoke drive electronics are also referred to as customer-specific or project-specific drive electronics.

MACCON also offers standard building blocks for rapid prototyping. Image shows an FPGA-based controller and an IGBT power stage.

Bespoke 6-phase drive electronics to drive a PMSM motor in an underwater application.

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Decision-making process for the development of custom drive electronics

In this paragraph we show a typical decision-making process for the development of custom drive electronics. A short glossary is given in advance:

SWM: A servodrive catalog product from MACCON. A certain amount of customisation is possible.

See link to the product page of SWM.

MACinverter: A modular system for building custom drive electronics, consisting of predefined modules.

See link to the MACinverter product page.

Decision-making process for the development of custom drive electronics

Hardware design services

Analog: Precision Sensing and Motion Control
Power Electronics: Customized Power Stage Topologies, MOSFET, IGBT, Wide Bandgap
Digital: DSP, Microprocessor and FPGA, Communication Protocols
Layout and PCB Design for Inhouse Schematic Designs
Thermal Design, Cooling Systems
Space Rated Electronics
System Engineering and Integration
Design Study, Prototype, Verification, Product

MACCON also offers standard building blocks for rapid prototyping. Image shows a gate-driver on its own, and, a gate-driver combined with the IGBT module and snubber capacitor.

Algorithm Design

System Simulation and Optimization of complex mechatronic Systems
Customized MATLAB/Simulink Control-Loop Design
Development and Simulation of Advanced Control Techniques
Routines for Self-Parameterization and Self-Optimization of Control-Loops in e.g Dynamics and Efficiency of Drive Systems

Controller for a satellite scanner

Software Design

Hardware platforms we use: DSP, Microprocessor and FPGA
Efficient automated Toolchain from MATLAB/Simulink to produce executable HDL-Code for the Target System
Embedded Software

Documentation, Manufacturing and Test

Complete Design Documentation (Schematic, PCB Manufacturing Data, BOM, Source Code...)
Integration of Prototypes Inhouse, Manufacturing at external EMS Service Partners
Design Verification and Documentation of Test Results
In-house special Thermal and Vacuum Tests for Space Projects, Documentation