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Figure 16. Minimum on-time threshold and on-time limit relation

At every control cycle the on-time is measured and it is compared to the programmable

current is well controlled and no fast decay is needed, so slow decay is used (Figure 17).

As the slow decay reduces its effectiveness, the on-time is reduced until the programmed

increase the current drop (Figure 17) and to avoid the failure of the current control algorithm

due to the minimum on-time limit (see Section 3.2 on page 17). In the first occurrence of this

slow decay, as shown in Figure 17.

Figure 17. Decay selection according to on-time duration

When two or more minimum on-time violations occur at the same reference current value

(i.e. the electrical position of the motor is not changed), the control system changes the

decay strategy using slow decay followed by a fast decay (Figure 18). The total duration of

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