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TI and Amazon Web Services (AWS) collaborate on a new IoT service
Synopsis: Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its new AWS IoT service today. TI is one of the early semiconductor vendors to support the AWS IoT service. Learn more: www.ti.com/AWSIoTIn recent years,...
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48V systems: Driving power MOSFETs efficiently and robustly
In Peter Fundaro’s previous post on 48V automotive systems, he introduced a power-inverter system architecture and configuration as well as the design considerations for MOSFETs and high-side/low-side...
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FREE WEBINAR: Automating the industry with TI Low Power Microcontrollers
Join TI & Mouser for a session covering the differentiation MSP low-power microcontrollers offer in factory automation and industrial systems. In this session explore how lower power, higher analog...
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Create a Fly-Buck™ converter in WEBENCH® Power Designer
Designing an isolated power-supply solution can be quite complicated; you need custom transformers, different types of feedback networks for proper circuit regulation and some type of compensation for...
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How do you select a multiplying DAC? Think op amp first.
The multiplying DAC (MDAC) is the precision digital-to-analog converter (DAC) architecture with the strongest DC specifications. These specifications are important for applications that demand high DC...
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Single software platform unifies more than 150 TI processors
With TI’s new Processor SDK, TI has unified development and simplified migration across TI’s latest Sitara processor and DSP families. All supported devices share a common development environment...
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Should you choose a thermistor or an analog temperature sensor?
Choosing the right temperature sensor not only saves cost but also maximizes system performance. In this blog post, I’ll focus on thermistors and analog temperature sensors, both of which are...
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Interfacing a BeagleBone BLE/Wi-Fi Cape with an Arrow Max10 DECA board: Part 1
This is a guest blog post by John Tauch, principal engineer with Dallas Logic.In today’s smart device world, designers are faced with the challenge of adding wireless communication interfaces to their...
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The power of a GUI simplifies the design of digital power factor correction
The power of a GUI simplifies the design of digital power factor correctionWhen looking at power conversion systems that can take advantage of digital control techniques, it is obvious and expected to...
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One to Watch: TIer takes on world’s energy challenges, builds human-sized...
In our ongoing series, ‘One to Watch,’ we profile the movers and shakers at TI who are making a difference through their extraordinary work.Bart Basile lives the open-sourced life of a maker.“Bart has...
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How is technology accelerating the adoption of renewable energy?
From solar, hydro and wind, to geo-thermal and bio-mass energy, renewable energy accounts for close to 19 percent of the total energy consumed across the world. Figure 1: Illustration of substation...
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Driving LEDs with both analog and PWM dimming
Recently, I visited a customer who is making LED lights for aquariums. For me, the most interesting part was when we discussed the type of LED driver he wanted. For aquarium lighting, a...
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There’s a core for that
As the embedded world continues to expand, applications are getting increasingly complex. With this, the demand for a specific processor core geared towards specific tasks is quickly rising. We no...
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Power over Ethernet: New applications every day
Tom Brady just threw his 400th touchdown pass in 13 NFL seasons. Similarly, I just completed my 400th Power over Ethernet (PoE) power supply reference design, the first of which I designed 13 years...
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MacOS beta 2 update for new Code Composer Studio™ integrated development...
A new Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment (IDE) MacOS beta 2 update was released a few weeks ago. The second beta release of MacOS brings us full support for MSP430 and MSP432...
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Taking a look inside the DLP® NIRscan™ Nano Evaluation Module
As engineers and developers, our jobs are to figure out the best way to put stuff together. From skyscrapers to integrated circuits, if it works well it’s because it’s engineered well. But who among us...
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How to simplify I2C tree when connecting multiple slaves to an I2C master
Electronic products such as smartphones, tablets, TVs, cars … even refrigerators and washing machines have added more and more features over the last few years to make life easier for users. To play...
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TI technology breaks down the barriers of sign language
*This blog originally posted on Think.Innovate. See the original post here. Imagine a device that wirelessly translates sign language to a computer. That’s what Lu Sun, a computer engineering student...
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Lonely Latinas in STEM
“It can’t be. Maybe you should be a plumber or electrician.”Those words tumbled out of the school guidance counselor’s mouth when Lauren Loredo’s high school career aptitude test indicated she should...
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Simple BLDC motor spinning 101, part 2: Sensored v. sensorless motor control
It has been a while since I posted part 1 of this simple brushless DC (BLDC) motor spinning 101 blog series, in which I talked about the five key priorities when designing a BLDC motor-control system:...
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