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What are the building blocks of high-definition audio systems?
Audio system designers, responding to customer demand for top audio quality, are looking into high-resolution (hi-res) or high-definition (HD) audio as more and more mid-tier system buyers demand the...
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For efficiencies’ sake – how to integrate bidirectional power flow into your...
With a growing emphasis on more compact, smaller and more efficient power systems, there is increasing interest in bidirectional converters. A bidirectional DC/DC converter, capable of bidirectional...
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Wireless technologies that are transforming medical care
Improving patient outcomes, meeting stringent compliance mandates and reducing costs are key health care provider requirements. To meet these objectives, the medical industry is accelerating the...
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The road to today’s digital cockpit
In my first car, there was only an AM/FM radio to keep me entertained as I relied on my own memory to get me from point A to point B. The instrument cluster was traditional, with only needles to...
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One to Watch: Image is everything with smartphone-sized ultrasound machine
In our ongoing series, ‘One to Watch,’ we profile the movers and shakers at TI who are making a difference through innovation or citizenship.If you could take a scan of the future of medical imaging...
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Powering the Intel® Arria 10 GX FPGA with a PMBus Multiphase Buck DC/DC...
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are increasingly complex system-on-chips (SoCs) that include not just programmable logic gates and random access memory (RAM) but also analog-to-digital...
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Vehicle vision: beyond the crystal ball?
When we look back 20 years from now, automotive evolution will likely be considered the greatest in recent times. Future automotive evolution will be profoundly impacted by automating the task of...
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Accelerate your ECG design time with delta-sigma ADCs
The electrocardiogram (ECG), which measures electrical signals produced by the heart, has benefited greatly from technological advances. These technological evolutions have resulted in less invasive,...
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3 steps to building your online persona
You want to find out more about someone… where do you start? The internet, of course.You search Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. to dig up as much information as possible and available in the public...
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A basic brushless gate driver design – part 1
Brushless DC motors are definitely the cool thing in motor drives – and for good reason. You get higher efficiency, higher power, higher torque, lower noise, lower electromagnetic interference (EMI),...
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How to maintain thermal performance when designing with USB Power Delivery
Over the past decade, portable devices like tablets and smartphones have become a more integral part of our daily life. We depend on them to stay in touch with friends and family, get work done and...
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One to Watch: Technical leader makes her mark mentoring students, colleagues,...
In our ongoing series, ‘One to Watch,’ we profile TIers who are making a difference through innovation or citizenship.TIer Krunali Patel started her path toward engineering at an early age, following...
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Halo Smart Labs designs a smart smoke alarm using TI’s SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi® and...
Smoke alarm technology has changed little, if at all, in the past 30 years – until the Internet of Things (IoT) made connectivity possible. Realizing that smoke detectors were a natural mechanism to...
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LDO basics: noise – part 1
In another LDO basics blog post, I discussed using a low-dropout regulator (LDO) to filter ripple voltage arising from switched-mode power supplies. This isn’t the only consideration for achieving a...
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Precise constant current regulation helps advance fast-charging
With battery-operated devices now being an essential part of our daily life, the burden of charging these devices is receiving more attention than ever. A good number of new approaches have emerged in...
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Get loud with a 700W automotive audio amplifier for infotainment systems
Are you a fan of listening to loud music while driving? I definitely am, especially on long road trips. The 700W Automotive Class-D Automotive Amplifier Reference Design shown in Figure 1 can support...
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Step 5 to build a smart thermostat using an MCU – adding network connectivity
Co-authored by Britta Ruelander, systems engineer at TIInternet of Things (IoT) technology makes products like thermostats smarter by connecting them to the network and enabling remote user access.The...
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How adding an eFuse will protect your brand’s reputation
This past weekend, one of my friends asked for my opinion on which brand of TV to buy. One of the first things that came to mind was my “gut feel” on which brand had the best reputation. We discussed...
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FRAM or flash: How to select the right MCU for your application
When choosing a microcontroller (MCU) to use in your application, you will have to decide between using a device with flash or ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM). You might be wondering what...
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Get the large-screen experience on the go with mobile smart TVs
When viewing my favorite television shows, movies and sports, I subscribe to the theory that bigger is always better. The good news is that affordable large-screen TVs keep getting bigger, but...
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