The [Denki Otaku] YouTube channel took a look recently at some stepper motors, or ‘stepping motors’ as they’re called in Japanese. Using a 2-phase stepper motor as an example, the stepper motor is ...

Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. introduces a new motor driver IC designed to drive one winding of a bipolar stepper motor in a microstepping mode. The outputs of Allegro's A4975 are rated for continuous ...

Stepper motors are brushless synchronous electric motors powered by direct current that rotate in steps, keeping the rotor stationary under a specific power supply. A well-defined sequence of PWM ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Microstepping a two-phase stepper motor requires the winding currents to be 90° out-of- phase so that the stepper ...

Here's a simple algorithm that uses conventional microcontroller blocks to control commercially available H-bridges to properly commutate a bipolar stepper motor through a microstepping profile.

Know the four most common microstepping myths. Myth 1: A high microstep count will result in evenly spaced steps at that count. Microstepping is good for smooth motion. However, having a 256 microstep ...

The A3979 microstepping motor driver operates bipolar stepper motors in full, half, quarter, and sixteenth-step modes, with output drive capability of 35 V and ±2.5 A. It is a drop-in replacement for ...

Allegro Microsystems had released a full-bridge PWM microstepping motor driver last 2013 that features an output of ±1.5 A continuous current with a 50 V voltage rating, the A4975. This device is ...