Broadcom
Broadcom Inc. is a global semiconductor company with approximately $50 billion in annual revenue, and while best known for networking, storage, and wireless ICs, its industrial division (inherited from its Avago Technologies acquisition) produces one of the most widely specified encoder IC and module product families in the industry. The company’s HEDL, HEDS, AEDB, AEAT, and AEDM series optical encoder modules and ICs have been specified in servo motors, stepper motors, brushless DC motors, and precision motion control systems for decades — offering incremental and absolute output options across a range of resolutions, and available through distribution from Digi-Key and Mouser in volumes from single units through large production quantities. Broadcom’s encoder products are a common OEM design choice for motor manufacturers and robotics developers who require proven, widely available, cost-competitive optical feedback components with an extensive application note and design support library.