Motor Controller and Driver ICs

Toshiba has over four decades of experience with motor control driver ICs and offers hundreds of fully integrated drivers that simplify motor control designs and are packed with many advanced features that make motors operate efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively. Toshiba motor drivers are suitable for driving brushed motors for simple motion controls, brushless motors for high-speed, low-noise, and efficient operations, and stepper motors for precision applications commonly found in industrial, consumer, healthcare, and automotive spaces.

Brushed motor driver ICs (H-Bridge drivers)

Toshiba has many robust and cost-effective brushed motor driver ICs for many workhorse applications such as printers, actuators, dispensers, shades and blinds, and robotics. Brushed motor drivers are H-bridge devices that also drive latching relays and bi-directional solenoids. Toshiba offers drivers up to four channels, with many package options, and several pin-to-pin compatible popular Brushed motor drivers in the market.

Brushless motor controller/driver ICs

Toshiba offers broad range of fully integrated drivers that simplify many low-power designs, semi-integrated controllers with gate drivers for medium-power applications, and highly configurable controllers for a wide range of voltage and power designs with flexibility. Toshiba solutions are suitable for sensorless motors typically found in low-inertia rotational devices such as fans, pumps, and vacuums. Toshiba solutions also control sensor-based motors such as robotics, mixers, shredders, grinders, power tools, garage door openers, exercise equipment, and agricultural equipment. Toshiba various brushless motor control technologies such as intelligent phase control for optimum efficiency, close loop speed control for automatic speed regulations, current monitoring function, sensorless sinewave drive, three-phase driving with a single Hall sensor, and more.

Stepping motor driver ICs

Toshiba offers stepper motor driver ICs for precision applications commonly found in printers, scanners, actuators, automations, robotics, sorting machines, and many other industrial applications. Toshiba’s technologies include active gain control (AGC) which adjusts the current on demand with respect to the load, minimizing the power loss, advanced dynamic mixed decay (ADMD), which optimizes the current switching and advanced microstepping that optimize the motor driving precision while offloading the CPU resource. Toshiba stepper motor drivers cover 1.8 V to 50 V and 0.8 A to 5.0 A operation and are offered in a variety of package options.