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How does the eCall system work?
Many government regulators have considered requiring emergency call (eCall) systems in automobiles. An eCall system will automatically contact emergency responders in the event of a serious road...
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Scrap silicon sees bright future as upcycled solar panels
On Earth Day, we’re reminded of the importance of caring for our planet by recycling. But what if you could do more than recycle? What if you could give your trash a second life?At TI, we not only...
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How to detect insulation failures in electrical equipment – part 1
Insulation deterioration is one of the primary causes of electrical-equipment failure in motors, high-voltage transformers and generators. Insulation failure can cause dangerous voltages, fires,...
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Did you know inductive proximity sensing can be implemented with a single chip?
Inductive proximity sensors can be used for contactless detection of metal in close proximity to an LC sensor. These inductive sensing solutions can enable presence detection and task counting in...
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Control-level design challenges in smart factory automation systems
Factory automation systems designed for Industry 4.0 typically contain three main levels of equipment that drive real-time communications and control: The field level where I/O modules, actuators, and...
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5 Code Composer Studio tricks that even Ki-Soo Lee himself doesn't know
Guest blog authored by Jan Cumps in celebration of Ki-Soo Lee Day Monday, April 25th. #KiSooLeeDay1. Use the Git plug-inSoftware geeks have known it forever that version control is your friend. And...
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DC/DC converter datasheets – System losses demystified
Welcome back to the DC/DC converter datasheets series. Whereas in the last installment I covered system efficiency, in this installment I will discuss DC/DC regulator component switching losses,...
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Envision what’s next with high-voltage GaN
Imagine a world where we won’t need to build as many power plants to keep pace with skyrocketing digital demands. A world where industrial, enterprise-computing, telecom and renewable-energy systems...
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Accelerate to higher performance
Engineers designing real-time control systems are constantly faced with the challenge of optimizing performance. These systems require minimal latency where the time delay between sampling,...
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Engineers do better than magicians: HMI touch through a thick glass
Magic tricks are great for impressing friends and family; they just don’t tend to contribute to innovation among our industrial customers. Even so, a t TI we have developed what sounds like a magic...
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From blue light to green power
Whizzing across the Japanese countryside at 300kph, my colleague Tomomasa Emoto and I arrived at Nagoya station by Shinkansen. Nagoya is home to famous Shintō shrines and castles, but that is not why...
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Three steps to select a protection diode to protect high-speed interfaces...
USB and High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) have had an overhaul in the last three years that increased the data rate and throughput of these protocols. Data rates have grown to 6Gbps for HDMI...
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Digitally select your reference voltage
Adjustable voltage references offer great flexibility to circuit designers because the reference is not limited to the manufacturer’s pre-set values. The adjustable output is typically configured with...
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The secret of using noise to improve your ADC’s performance
Have you ever found an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for your application and later realized that you needed higher effective resolution? If you have noise in your system or can add noise to your...
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Teens & university students share expertise in TI Lab
On any given afternoon, if you were to take a peek into the TI Innovation Lab at the University of Central Florida (UCF), you would find a unique pairing of high school students collaborating with...
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Charge it up with charge pumps – Part 4
To conclude this short series on charge pumps, I’d like to give you a few circuit ideas, to get you thinking about a basic charge-pump circuit as a building block adaptable to a wide range of...
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Striking white gold: Bavarian farm uses smart agriculture to accelerate...
The delicate flavor of white asparagus signals that spring has come to Bavaria – much like bluebonnets herald the spring in Texas. This year, the asparagus season – or Spargelzeit – came four weeks...
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Designing for tomorrow, today: How advanced light control changes the game...
Today, the range of applications and markets where advanced light control technology helps solve complex engineering problems is incredibly broad. This wasn’t always the case. Back in the late 1980s,...
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It's in the math: how to convert an ADC code to a voltage (part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I explained how you can calculate the input voltage to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) by multiplying the ADC’s output code by the least-significant bit (LSB) size using...
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Keep it simple with an LDO regulator
Living and working in Asia exposes me to a wide variety of interesting support questions. For example, I was recently asked if TI had a cross-device to an LDO controller. This controller is in a...
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