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Enjoy cordless freedom, cut the cord of your AC appliance!
Stubborn vacuum cords, and giant thick AC power plugs for your drill, can be a mess, and can sometimes be hazardous. Enjoying cordless power tools and garden tools used to be an expensive dream, but...
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Enabling Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® connectivity on RTOS
This blog was authored by Trish Messiter, CEO, Clarinox Technologies Pty LtdHave you ever thought that it would be nice to maintain just one wireless application even though you have multiple target...
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Three things to consider when upgrading to 4K Ultra HD 12G-SDI interfaces
Ultra high-definition (UHD) displays are here! With big streaming companies like YouTube, Netflix and Amazon Instant Video already offering 4K content, it is inevitable that more and more content will...
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Power Tips: How to find switching loops in a power supply
Power-supply layout is one of the most important parts of being able to create a successful power design. Everyone has an opinion on how to do it and reasons why their way is the best way. The truth is...
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From touch to voice: Adding voice control to any application
Rapidly evolving technology continues to challenge how we, as consumers, interact with our devices. As the touch technology matures, thanks to great improvement in capacitive touch in recent years,...
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Heads Up! Discover the automobile display of tomorrow
The morning commute may never be the same. Just a few minutes behind the wheel of our EvoCar demonstration makes this point abundantly clear.The EvoCar demo was built to highlight multiple TI...
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Amp up your cans: pop/click suppression in headphone amplifiers (Part 5)
This post was co-authored with John Caldwell.In the final installment of this five-part blog series, I will discuss pop/click noise in operational amplifiers (op amps) driving headphone loads, and some...
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Getting our geek on worldwide
Deep down, all of us TIers have a little geek inside of us just anticipating our next great innovation.Whether we’re tinkering with TI devices to see what we can create or checking out others’...
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Power quality is essential to a smarter grid
What is power quality?Power quality can have different meanings depending on whether one is an energy producer or consumer. For utilities or system operators, power quality can indicate the reliability...
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From the Experts: Debugging and Optimization
Does debug affect optimization? Does optimization affect debug?A compiler’s main job is to generate instructions and data directives that implement your C/C++ source code. However, compilers have...
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Untangling electric vehicle chargers – Level 3
In the last installment of this series, I explored different standards around the connection of alternating current (AC) voltage to an electric vehicle. In all of those cases, the electric vehicle (EV)...
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DC/DC converter datasheets – System efficiency demystified
With the variety of regulators on the market, it can be difficult to choose a DC/DC regulator. Most automotive applications require high efficiency over the entire load range since they’re running from...
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Power wearable devices with multi-rail DC/DC converters
From smart watches to fitness trackers, wearable devices are becoming more and more popular. In the case of health monitors for example, data can be measured and then processed and displayed on small,...
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Out of Office: How pinball cultivated an engineer
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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Disentangle RF amplifier specs: intermodulation distortion and intercept points
When selecting an amplifier, designers need to understand what distortion components the amplifier will exhibit when stimulated by a signal with two or more closely spaced frequency components. For...
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Not all regulator current limits are created equal
TI’s SIMPLE SWITCHER® LM257x and LM259x regulators have been a popular choice for DC/DC buck regulation for over 20 years. Due to their popularity, a number of manufacturers have created similar...
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Can automotive-qualified ICs be used in industrial applications?
Have you ever considered using automotive-qualified components for industrial applications? Many industrial sectors such as building automation, factory automation and control, motor drives, white...
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How to protect your EPOS processor from short-circuits in 9V USB charging
This post is co-authored by Matthew Xiong . Portable electronic point-of-sale ( EPOS ) devices are becoming more and more popular worldwide. Portable EPOS devices, unlike traditional countertop...
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Fiber in industrial applications
Ethernet has propagated from the traditional office environment into a wide range of areas, including harsh industrial environments like factory and building automation. Today, copper cabling is the...
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Eliminate multistage architecture and improve industrial PC system efficiency
When designing industrial PCs, one question that puzzles system engineers is how to improve system efficiency. PC applications use a complex quad core or octa-core processor like the Sitara™ AM57x or...
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