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Match made in heaven: Analog and MSP432 MCU
Microcontrollers and analog are each other's soul mates. Both rely on each other to complete the signal path in almost all applications— medical, consumer, energy etc. We need analog parts for signal...
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Start school with the right gear
Get your kids moving in the right direction this school year with cool products containing TI devices, such as the Garmin vívofit 2 activity tracker, TI-84 Plus Color Edition (CE) graphing calculator,...
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What you need to know about Bluetooth Smart in automotive
Over the last couple of decades, the automotive vehicle has transformed internally from a mechanical beast to an electronic supercomputer. A little more than a decade ago, when a car broke down, a...
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Powering multicore processors with multiphase DC/DCs
Did you know that mobile phone processors are now evolving to 8-core and 10-core processors? These processors need multiple cores to run many applications at the same time, operate the graphics...
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How to filter out noise in your DC/DC design
After establishing a baseline on power-supply noise, let’s focus on post-filtering strategies of DC/DC converters while driving an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). For continuity with previous posts,...
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Power Tips: The ground plane – a critical element in noise management of...
Last month, I received a customer complaint about high-frequency spikes on the output of a DC/DC converter. I first reviewed the part’s schematic locations, and all of the necessary noise filtering was...
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Inductive sensing: How to design an inductive sensor with the new WEBENCH...
Designing coils for inductive sensing may initially appear like a daunting task, but the WEBENCH® Coil Designer makes the process very simple.If you have designed with TI's inductance-to-digital...
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DIY with TI: Experimental music man marches to his own digital drum
At TI, we celebrate the makers and hobbyists who enjoy creating and innovating on their own time. In our ongoing DIY with TI series, we share their incredible Do It Yourself inventions using TI...
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Three protocols for industrial communication
While sensors can provide a wealth of data, they provide little value without communications. In industrial sensing applications , this communication most commonly takes place over wires in the form of...
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A smaller, more integrated boost for OLED displays
The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays found in small devices, such as wearables and smaller medical devices, require a relatively high voltage (usually around 12V) to drive the display. But...
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How to generate current sources and sinks of arbitrary magnitude
Current sources and sinks are essential components of analog design, from the simple biasing of active analog circuitry to current-capacitor integrator reset and oscillator architectures. A convenient...
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RF Sampling: How over-sampling is cheating physics
** This is the fifth post in a new RF-sampling blog series that’ll appear monthly on Analog Wire **RF sampling converters can capture high-frequency signals and large-bandwidth signals; however, not...
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3 reasons back-to-school isn’t just for kids
It’s back-to-school time, but that doesn’t have to mean just for kids.TI is helping learners of all ages study engineering by partnering with the University of California at Berkeley, the University of...
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Identify the most accurate linear voltage regulator
Would you like your microprocessor to have peak performance all the time? Imagine that the power for your microprocessor consists of a switch mode power supply and a linear regulator, which allows for...
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Exterminate software bugs with MSP432 MCU
Debugging large software programs is always a challenge; often, it’s tough to know where to even begin! The MSP432 low-power and performance Microcontroller (MCU) offers an advanced debugging utility,...
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If someone offered you same video quality for half the data rate, would you...
Because that’s the promise of High Efficiency Video Coding or HEVC. Also known as H.265, this is the follow-on of the H.264 / MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard. HEVC provides the same video...
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Offset correction improves the next generation of heart-rate smart watches
You don’t need to look too hard to find complaints about the accuracy of optical heart-rate smart watches. Many technology blog reviews stated that you’ll benefit from its activity and sleep-tracking...
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Fast forward your FPGA power design with TI Designs
Wouldn’t it be much easier if processors and field programmable gate arrays FPGAs all operated from the same voltage and didn’t require special features like sequencing and control? Unfortunately, most...
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From fish to flowers to food: How TIers used a dying lake to nourish,...
TIers put our company’s commitment to citizenship into action every day in their jobs and in their communities. In our ongoing series “CiTIzenship," we feature TIers around the world making a...
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Indian students solve farming problems with the touch of a finger
The TI Innovation Challenge India Design Contest was as competitive as ever this year, attracting 11,200 participants from 654 different engineering colleges in India. The following highlights this...
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