Instead of semiconductor makers that just want to sell more chips, TRINAMIC Motion Control consists of engineers who want to design better drives. It all began when Michael Randt, Founder of TRINAMIC Motion Control, started developing a motion control chip together with his colleagues Lars Larsson and Bernhard Dwersteg. “Back in 1996, we often worked with DSPs, and the software was always the bottleneck and a source of problems – the cost of ownership was high. There was simply no hardware solution available but we knew that designing motion control technology in hardware, not software, was essential for motors that work efficiently, reliably, smoothly, and quietly.”