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See a need, change a life: New employees boost community involvement,...
From 15 feet in the air, at the top of a ladder, the eggs were dropped one by one. Each was cocooned in a homespun contraption designed to help the egg survive impact with the floor below.Some eggs...
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Interfacing a BeagleBone BLE/Wi-Fi Cape with an Arrow Max10 DECA board: Part 3
This is the third and final post for our blog series describing how to add the SimpleLink CC2650 wireless microcontroller (MCU), a Bluetooth® Smart device, to your Altera FPGA project. In Part 1, we...
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Power Tips: Design considerations of high-voltage converters in a cascode MOSFET
As I mentioned in my last blog, a cascode MOSFET configuration provides a low-cost alternative for high-voltage applications such as smart meters and motor drives. To further understand how a cascode...
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Batteries get smarter with intelligent gauges
When you hear the term “gas gauge,” the first thought that comes to mind might be the gauge in your car. You depend on the accuracy of that gauge to keep you from getting stuck on the side of the road....
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Noise effects on the precision of amplifiers
When building analog signal chains for precision, you should consider several factors during component selection to maintain accuracy in your resulting measurements: offset, offset drift (with...
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Gate drive transformer vs. high/low side driver: A detailed implementation
My previous blog post discussed isolation requirements in a typical power-supply system and two popular gate-driver implementation methods: a gate-drive transformer and a high-/low-side gate driver. A...
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Diving into the futuristic trends of medical applications
The medical device industry is exploding with new opportunities for developers as both advanced patient monitoring and remote care are quickly gaining traction throughout the United States. As...
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Cloudy with a chance of development tools for SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3200
Spend your time using development tools instead of downloading and installing them With TI's rich cloud-based development tool ecosystem dev.ti.com. Now available for our low power SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi®...
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Life lessons for grads from TI CEO Rich Templeton
To follow is a story which originally appeared on McCombs Today about our CEO Rich Templeton's recent visit with students at UT Austin. Templeton shared his life experiences and lessons he's learned...
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An electronic leash – for your wallet
It’s the busy holiday shopping season. You’re winding your way through a crowded mall, loaded down with heavy bags of gifts. You reach for your wallet, with all its valuable contents, and it’s not...
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How to select the right industrial Ethernet standard: PROFINET
This is the third installment of “ How to select the right industrial Ethernet standard ,” a blog series for designers who have decided to leverage industrial Ethernet in their systems. This series is...
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Good designs need the right translation
Translators are becoming indispensable devices on any board to connect two systems working at different voltage levels. The translation solution’s input threshold (Vil, Vih) should be within the...
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Three guidelines for designing anti-aliasing filters
In my last post, I discussed two important characteristics of delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that simplify the design of your anti-aliasing filter: an oversampling architecture and a...
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It’s time for an upgrade: CMOS ADC with chopper
Until recently, industrial applications such as precision motor control or plasma etchers couldn’t take full advantage of modern high-speed data converters. Because these systems monitor a small input...
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Challenges in small cell LTE software
Massive predicted growth in mobile traffic over the next few years will put tremendous pressure on the entire network from terminals to the core, and in particular for small cell product developers....
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A perfect habitat for Meerkats
If we look back into the history of the human race and its progress in science and engineering, it would be apparent that we have learned so much from Mother Nature and its creatures. For example,...
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Just the FPGA I was looking for… but how do I power it?
If you’ve designed any type of electronic system, you have probably already worked with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). FPGAs introduce a great degree of customization and flexibility into...
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Swirl uses SimpleLink CC2640 wireless MCU to power down its new beacons
Guest blog by Rebecca Schuette, Director of Marketing at SwirlBluetooth® Smart beacons have taken the retail industry by storm over the last few years. As retailers investigate making the shift from...
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Dreaming of a career in STEM? Stay in school
Hubie Payne wanted to become an engineer so he could help solve some of the world’s problems. However, like some young adults, he had a little trouble with math.“I failed my first engineering math...
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Maximizing PoE PD efficiency on a budget
The flyback is the most commonly used isolated DC/DC converter in power over Ethernet (PoE) powered device (PD) designs, delivering power up to 25.5W in many Ethernet-based products such as wireless...
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