• Brushless DC Motors all implement a trapezoidal EMD with non-overlapping coil distribution
  • Motors with the sinusoidal EMF with overlapping coil distribution are called permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM)
  • The only difference here really between this and the Brushless DC Motors is the sinusoidal commutation instead of trapezoidal commutation
  • We can use PWM for the inverter
  • Torque-speed characteristics of BLDC is very similar to PMDC (remember BLDC is simply inside-out of PMDC)
  • EC motor stands for electrical commutation motor (BLDC/PMSM)

Some consider PMSM and BLDC to be the same.

  • The sinusoidal EMF can be created by the AC inverter using SVM