When Esterline Muirhead Aerospace was developing a new design of three-phase motor, they turned to Hitex for the development of the board, based on previous experience of our expertise in circuit design and production.

Initial work was carried out to establish the architecture to use, with joint working to make best use of Esterline's motor drive experience and Hitex's microcontroller expertise. This led to the adoption of the Infineon TriCore family, due to its excellent abilities in motor control and the availability of Hitex's existing prcoessor module.

Just six weeks later, the first boards were available for use, coinciding with completion of a bespoke GUI, also developed by Hitex, which allows testing and demonstration of the new motors.  This has since been fine-tuned to provide a fully-fledged control system to allow the operation of various motor configurations, as well as automated cycle testing on up to all four channels simultaneously.