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Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: STMicroelectronics | Subject: L7220
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 January 2008
Motor controller takes charge of HDDs
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Controller integrates all circuits required to drive both spindle and voice-coil motors, plus the motor drive power FETs and multiple high-efficiency voltage regulators.
STMicroelectronics has developed a hard-disk drive (HDD) motor-control chip intended for demanding enterprise-level HDD applications The new L7220 controller integrates all of the circuits required to drive both the spindle motor and the voice-coil motor (VCM), plus the motor drive power FETs and multiple high-efficiency voltage regulators