White Goods Motor Controller Improves The Environment
And The Bottom Line
Green design is a natural result of designing a more capable
and reliable motor controller
by Jeffrey Reichard, CEO, Tier Electronics LLC
and Andrew Soukup, Worldwide TMS320C2000 Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments
An enduring myth about green design is that it tends to increase component count and manufacturing costs and, as result, make the end product more expensive.
While many design engineers have seen first-hand the fallacy of this argument, a surprisingly significant proportion of the design community still believes that green inevitably means more expensive and less competitive.
When Tier Electronics set out to design a better motor control module for white goods that could also be used in other cost-sensitive consumer products, green was not uppermost in the design team's collective mind. The primary goals were to create a flexible design that minimized component count and was suitable for high volume, cost-effective manufacturing.
Not surprisingly the end result was a more power efficient design, which
made the subsystem all the more attractive to OEMs.
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