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4 ways we’re investing $6.2 million in STEM education
STEM skills are survival skills for students today. That’s why we are committed to improving STEM education by arming teachers and students with the resources they need to succeed. TI and the TI...
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Design of a camera-friendly, wide-color-gamut, color-tunable RGBW LED light...
In part 1 of this series, we discussed a few challenges associated with a color-tunable, dimmable light-emitting diode (LED) light source and the various advantages and disadvantages of dimming methods...
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Extra tricks to increase battery life
In my previous blog post, “Power topology choices for power-hungry devices,” I discussed power topology choices to help conserve battery life. Today, I want to discuss other ways to extend battery life...
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The seat remembers: Brushed DC motor ripple counting drives innovation in...
My parents have an SUV that they share between them. When I go home, I might also use their car to visit old friends or run errands. When all three of us are using the same car, we each have to adjust...
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Debugging an integrated ADC in a microcontroller using an oscilloscope
You probably don’t reach for an oscilloscope first when debugging an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) integrated into a microcontroller (MCU). But an oscilloscope can help you make sure that the ADC...
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Designing with PIR motion detectors: part 1
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to find that all of your motion-sensitive lights have suddenly turned on. Now you’re stuck wondering whether there is a stranger in your home or if Fluffy...
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Using mmWave technology to enable sense and avoidance in drones
Despite the great advantages to be gained from the use of drones in civil applications, such as weather forecasting, package delivery and 3-D mapping, the drone industry faces a dual challenge: the...
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How to correctly layout a 40A power supply: copper, vias and loop path
The demand for energy has gone up significantly but overall solution size continues to shrink. To adapt, you can decrease the size of a buck converter but it must still be able to handle the...
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Diversity fuels innovation and 6 other career lessons our interns learned...
Our student interns are creative and driven, so when a group of them were challenged to develop innovative designs, three applied smart features to a table game that’s a fixture in many college dorms....
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Unique techniques to increase controller power
The better you understand a tool, the more powerful it becomes.One example of this is the Tektronix 576 curve tracer. At first glance, it looks like a machine that only measures a three-terminal...
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Applications of Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) in Multifunction...
Multifunction and Industrial printers often include a data path where an image must be passed between multiple boards in the system. This creates concerns for designers including noise immunity,...
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Crafty idea: Create a 150V non synchronous buck solution with a lower Vin...
Many applications today require an input-voltage rating beyond the VIN max ratings of many DC-to-DC controllers. Traditional options include using expensive front-end protection or implementing a...
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Optimize the emissions performance in your isolated system
“Emissions Impossible”! Emissions are inevitable when it comes to switching circuits. With circuits that have an external transformer for isolated power, you can increase the size of the transformer to...
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Six weird ways to design with a brushless-DC driver
There are two absolute truths that I have come to know. First, brushless-DC motor drivers are cool. Everyone loves the thrill of spinning motors, and brushless-DC motors amp up the wow factor by being...
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Sync your multichannel data acquisition systems up to 15GHz
Most advanced systems like digital oscilloscopes (DSOs), phased-array radars and 5G wireless testers require multiple synchronized signal chains that include high-speed (gigasamples per second)...
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Self-driving racing cars put processors on the podium
Until recently, the concept of a self-driving car seemed like the stuff of science fiction. But in just a few short years, some of the world’s largest car manufacturers and tech giants from Silicon...
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Inductor-free innovation: low EMI Class-D audio
It would be a mistake to dismiss the ever-present television set as lacking innovation. According to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), every year more than 200 million TVs are sold worldwide....
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Low-noise charge pumps make it easy to create negative voltages
Do you have a need for a negative voltage? If you are responsible for designing an amplifier, audio system, data converter or gallium nitride (GaN) driver, you may feel all alone in your quest to...
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Ethernet redundancy protocols for the grid
Technology is constantly getting smarter and smarter, from self-adjusting thermostats to voice-triggered appliances to automated factories. All of these technologies depend on the reliability of the...
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