Power design lab targets motor applications

Fairchild Semiconductor is expanding its Global Power Resource power design and application lab in Europe to provide complete system power solutions for motion and motor control.

Fairchild Semiconductor is expanding its Global Power Resource power design and application lab in Europe to provide complete system power solutions for motion and motor control.

Fairchild will invest in new equipment as well as motion and motor control engineers at its Furstenfeldbruck, Germany site.

The centre has already completed more than 50 successful system power designs in its first 18 months, reducing part count requirements and increasing efficiency in customer applications.

"Customers value the total power system designs we are able to give them and are seeking the same level of solutions in other areas such as two- and three-phase motor control, and motion control", said Ole-Petter Brusdal, Fairchild's Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Europe.

"These address industrial and consumer white goods applications - areas that are growing quickly in Europe".

"As 'the power franchise', our strategy is to constantly upgrade and extend the Global Power Resource design and application labs to meet the needs of our customers".

To support the additional applications, Fairchild will significantly invest to increase staff levels by 15% and add new test instrumentation like additional three phase programmable power sources, power analysers and electronic loads to support higher current levels and three-phase applications, including inverter drives.

The expanded team will offer customers specific design experience in the motion and motor control domain.

Fairchild's power design and application lab in Fuerstenfeldbruck is resourced with expertise and equipment targeted to provide comprehensive power design solutions for electronic applications in the principal European end markets - industrial, consumer and automotive.

Led by Dr Michael Weirich, a PhD Engineering Manager with significant power design experience, the centre is supported by 16 highly qualified systems and applications engineers together with four component engineers.

Able to turn around designs in as little as two weeks, the centre provides customers with fully engineered solutions, including demo boards; detailed reports including information for bills of materials (BOMs) and turnkey designs, providing CAD files that can be incorporated into their own designs; and application notes.

It is one of six such centres operated by Fairchild worldwide to develop complete system power solutions in the computing, communications, consumer, industrial, automotive and display segments.

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