These days, most of the media we consume is digital. We still watch movies and TV shows, but they’re all packaged in digital ...

The Edifier MR5 nearfield monitors are multifaceted boxes of joy, although they're a little too busy for their own good.

Microchip Technology has released the PIC32-BZ6 MCU, a single-chip wireless platform that supports Bluetooth Low Energy, Thread, Matter, and proprietary protocols. The device consolidates ...

Advances in linear motors and hybrid actuators are pushing motion systems toward higher precision, speed and efficiency. A ...

Beckhoff’s new EL8601-8411 EtherCAT Terminal offers interface flexibility in a compact, 12-mm-wide design. With up to 12 signal interfaces (8 DI, 2 DO, 1 AI, 1 AO) and nine signal types in one ...

Analog and digital optoelectronic sensors combine an LED and an optoelectronic integrated circuit in a compact package to enable optical encoders to provide absolute or incremental position detection ...

Part 1 of this FAQ looked at the optical rotary encoder, a low-cost, high-resolution, easy-to-use sensor for indicating incremental shaft position (although it can be “upgraded” to indicate absolute ...

As previously mentioned, the feedback sensors include position sensors to track the rotor’s location, current sensors to measure the motor phase currents, voltage sensors to monitor the DC bus voltage ...

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to improve the resolution of incremental analog encoders. In practice, the outputs of analog encoders are not the quadrature sinusoidal waves, in which there ...

Digital quadrature encoders have become a standard for precision automation systems used in laser materials processing, additive manufacturing (AM), and test/inspection. In these tools, stage-level ...