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Power Tips: Automotive EMI Series: Dithering? Not always a bad thing
An automobile design engineer approached our team recently with an issue: he was unable to meet the Comité International Spécial des Perturbations Radioélectriques (CISPR) 25 Class 5 electromagnetic...
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Chinese university students make DIY smart dorm room
Cui Yepu makes every day DIYers look like slackers.When the Harbin Institute of Technology student’s comb went missing, he didn’t pop by the local drug store for a new one. He made one.During a lunch...
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Chocolate challenge! See how spectroscopy can give you answers.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, We used a TI DLP® NIRscan™ Nano EVM, To pick the right chocolate for you. Love may be fleeting, but at least we’ll always have chocolates. While there’s nothing sweeter...
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96 DAC channels in one device! Why would we do that?
We live in a time where you can summarize technological trends with one word: more. We demand more features, more integration, more efficiency, more everything. In TI’s precision digital-to-analog...
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Slim down your flyback; lose that excess snubber
For at least the last 20 years, MOSFETs have been the switch of choice for many switched-mode power-supply designs. Because of their higher switching speed and easier drive characteristics, MOSFETs...
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Industrial drive control architectures: Part 1
Many industrial inverter and servo drive manufacturers have traditionally relied upon field-programmable gate-array (FPGA) or ASIC technology to complete functions that are not supported by commercial,...
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Out of Office: Surmounting the tallest peaks of Scotland
TIers do amazing things every day at work and when they are out of the office. In our ongoing series, ‘Out of Office,’ we showcase the unique and fascinating hobbies, talents and interests of TIers all...
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How to keep your power switching frequency above the AM radio band
We’ve all been there before. After selecting a particular power-supply device, you build a printed circuit board (PCB) and evaluate it in your lab. You measure some basic parameters, such as efficiency...
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Using TPS659037 to power the Sitara AM57x processors
The SitaraTM AM57x family of processors was announced last October, and is being used across many industrial and consumer embedded applications. After the processor is selected, people often turn to...
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How to set an accurate pulse width modulator
When I started working on designing a pulse width modulator for my LED driver, there were two things I knew from the start: that the light-emitting diode (LED) driver needed a pulse-width modulated...
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Trends in building automation: connected sensors for energy efficiency
When it comes to building automation, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are becoming more and more prevalent in new and old buildings alike. WSNs enable us to add...
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The dual-mode Bluetooth® module you’ve been waiting for is here
It’s here! Our new dual-mode Bluetooth® CC2564 module (CC2564MODA) enables developers to get their simple, low-power connectivity solutions to market quickly and easily. Featuring an integrated antenna...
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Infotainment for the Masses – Volkswagen MIB II Standard powered by TI
Undoubtedly one of the largest automotive manufacturers, Volkswagen has faced unique challenges when designing infotainment systems. With brands ranging from low-cost Seat and to premium-class cars...
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Acoustic noise in home appliances due to torque ripple in motor drives – part 1
This post was co-authored by Manu Balakrishnan.When consumers buy appliances, a few key factors influencing their decision include star rating or energy efficiency, acoustic noise level and an...
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How to select a temperature sensor probe
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to select a temperature sensor probe. The answer really depends on your application and the environment where the sensor will operate. In this post I’ll...
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Getting charged up for National Battery Day
Batteries: the unsung hero of any mobile phone, tablet or notebook PC. This piece of technology remains unappreciated, because despite every charge we still wish our devices would last longer. And...
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Pump it up quietly
As you may have read in previous blogs and Greg Lubarsky’s white paper, “The Forgotten Converter,” using a charge pump DC/DC converter for special supply rails in a system can be very effective from a...
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Does a low-leakage multiplexer really matter in a high-impedance PLC system?
A very passionate young engineer at a leading programmable logic controller (PLC) manufacturer was designing a multichannel 18-bit analog input module that accepts inputs from high-impedance sensors....
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Engineers Week 2016: Celebrating engineers, inspiring tomorrow’s innovators
In honor of National Engineers Week (February 21-27), we chatted with a few TIers’ children to find out what they think engineers do and how engineering is present in our everyday lives.(Please visit...
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Mitigate overheating in ultrascale & ultrascale+ FPGAs
Accuracy and reliability are priorities for industrial and consumer embedded applications like motor control and high-precision medical equipment. In these types of systems, any failure could be fatal...
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