Stepper Motor Drivers

Deliver Quiet, Efficient, Smooth Motion

Minimize noise and vibration in your stepper motor designs with our QuietStepTM adaptive stepper motor drivers. We offer a complete lineup of stepper motor drivers for office automation, industrial, and automotive applications. Our advanced QuietStepTM solutions use proprietary algorithms to reduce torque ripple and current distortion. To minimize ripple current for the various operating conditions, QuietStepTM adaptive stepper motor drivers perform on-the-fly adjustments to the amount of fast decay during a pulse-width modulation (PWM) cycle. This adaptive feature improves system performance, reduces audible motor noise and vibration, and increases step accuracy.

Featured Products

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AMT49700

Stepper Motor Driver IC with Single-Step Control and Adjustable Microstep Resolution for Fine Positioning and Programmable Motion Control
Step Motor/Stepper Driver Integrated Circuit A5984 Product Image

A5984

DMOS Microstepping Driver with Translator and Overcurrent Protection (OCP)
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A5988

Quad DMOS Full-Bridge PWM Motor Driver

Stepper Motor Driver Selection Guide

Documentation & Resources

Innovative Motor Control
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Innovative Motor Control

With decades of experience, our embedded motion control algorithms in our motor driver ICs simplify designs while improving motor performance and time to market. Download brochure to learn more.
Innovative FOC Motor Control: Improve Time to Market by Eliminating Software Development
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Innovative FOC Motor Control: Improve Time to Market by Eliminating Software Development

This paper will focus on the basics of the sensorless control algorithm, the advantages of different sensing techniques, and how the GUI can drive a full-featured sensorless sinusoidal BLDC motor with no software programming required.
Improving Batwing Power Dissipation
Application Note

Improving Batwing Power Dissipation

AN295015 - Allegro MicroSystems’ stepper motor ICs are power ICs encapsulated in DIP (dual in-line), SOIC (small outline integrated circuit), and PLCC (plastic leaded chip carrier) packages. The silicon die is directly bonded to a heat-spreading lead frame (batwing).
A Scalable Approach to Power Tool Designs
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A Scalable Approach to Power Tool Designs

Achieve all of your design goals for voltage and power levels with a single-platform architecture by combining Allegro drivers, sensors, and regulators.
Innovative Back EMF Based Stall Detection Simplifies Stepper Motor Designs
Application Note

Innovative Back EMF Based Stall Detection Simplifies Stepper Motor Designs

Many applications require reliable detection of reaching a mechanical endpoint without using an external sensor, and motor stall detection can be used instead. This article describes an innovative method of small stepper motor stall detection and its application.
Hot-Swap Testing Results for the A5977 and A5979 Microstepping DMOS Drivers
Application Note

Hot-Swap Testing Results for the A5977 and A5979 Microstepping DMOS Drivers

This report outlines hot-swap test results for A5977 and A5979 stepper motor drivers. To duplicate the hot-swap conditions, we have selected an IC motor supply voltage (VBB) of 24 V and motor current of 1.5 A per winding for our tests.
Advanced Algorithm Minimizes Stepper Motor Noise and Vibration in Precision Motion Control Applications
Technical Article

Advanced Algorithm Minimizes Stepper Motor Noise and Vibration in Precision Motion Control Applications

Stepper motors offer unique advantages over direct current (DC) and brushless DC (BLDC) motors in many applications. A bipolar stepper provides accurate open-loop position as well as zero-speed torque without using a control loop or external sensors.

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