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Develop cloud-powered prototypes with Mongoose OS and Google Cloud IoT Core
The open-source Mongoose operating system (OS) from Cesanta enables embedded developers to move quickly from an idea to a prototype and smoothly transition to production. It helps accelerate...
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Why capacitive isolation: a vital building block for sensors in smart cities
With urbanization growing in every corner of the globe, the answer to this growth is smart cities. Building a smart city involves a paradigm shift in infrastructure, with sophisticated networks and...
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One to Watch: Arthur Redfern started innovating the day he walked in our door
Acceleration. It's the challenge Arthur Redfern focuses on every day as manager of our Machine Learning Lab. He's working on sophisticated methods to make machines smarter with algorithms, software and...
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Design a 3A power supply smaller than a 1608-size resistor
Is it easy for you to physically see all of your integrated circuits (ICs) on your printed circuit boards (PCBs), or do you need a magnifying glass to see the small bits of black plastic sprinkled in...
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Powering a 12V bus with 24V batteries in automotive applications
24V systems are common in commercial trucks, including heavy-duty pickup trucks, as well as military vehicles that require extra power.Converting power from 24V batteries to 12V for low-voltage...
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How to select the correct integrated ADC for your sensing application
A Google search for the term “analog to digital converter selection” produces thousands of hits, proof that this task continues to challenge a number of us involved in designing that elusive, perfect...
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How to Select a MOSFET – Part 1
In complicated power designs, metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) selection has a tendency to be somewhat of an afterthought. After all, it’s just a three-pin device. How...
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Local Interconnect Network – the last mile network
When someone says “local network,” you may imagine the internet, a local area network (LAN), Wi-Fi® or Ethernet. While these technologies are robust and widespread, they require significant overhead –...
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Design a second-stage filter for sensitive applications
Certain applications, such as test and measurement, are sensitive to voltage ripple and routinely require very low output voltage ripple. For example, 10µV/V of ripple ratio translates to 100dB of...
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Development platforms pave the way to production systems for ADAS
Developing a production advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) requires working in both controlled laboratory environments and real-world scenarios. Development platforms from TI’s ecosystem design...
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Batteries and the changing landscape of medical monitoring
As healthcare coverage expands to cover emerging technologies, batteries shrink and interconnectivity improves, the medical field is close to a paradigm shift in treatment options. In the next decade,...
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Low-side current sensing for high-performance cost-sensitive applications
Applications that require the control of a motor typically involve some type of current-sensing circuitry. Being able to sense the current through the motor allows adjustments, such as speed, to the...
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Make automatic optical inspection easy thanks to packages with wettable flanks
Designing an automotive application is an extremely complex task that involves several functional areas, which can make the decision-making process difficult when you have conflicting priorities....
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TurboTrans™ technology: one resistor dramatically improves transient...
Ever-evolving technology demands smaller, modular, performance-driven solutions. Power modules contribute to very small solution sizes and smaller board-space requirements, but can come at the cost of...
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Disruptive technologies will put us in the fast lane of the big-data highway
Click here and then hover over each number to learn more about these 4 technologies.I enjoy the g-force every time I punch the accelerator in my electric vehicle, which can go from 0 to 60 in less than...
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How to Select a MOSFET – Part 2
In part one of this series, we looked at how to suggest an appropriate cross reference for a FET when the end application is unknown. In this blog and those upcoming entries in this series, we’ll start...
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Tuning in on automotive head units: not your grandfather’s radio – or is it?
While vehicles have changed a lot in the past few generations (and most certainly in the past decade), the radio has endured for more than 80 years. You can probably attribute its longevity to the fact...
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Back to the basics: what is HART protocol and how does it work?
The blog post was co-authored by Audrey Dearien. Communications in industrial automation systems enable the transfer of data, commands and other information to streamline process control and factory...
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Signal Conditioning functions go mainstream in PCI Express Gen 4
It’s been quite a while – just about seven years now – since the current PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3 specification became official. With a swell of activity in the standard committees, a new PCIe Gen 4...
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How to maximize efficiency in your power control application?
I’m excited to share with you that TI has just released to production the first package option in the new Piccolo™ F28004x microcontroller (MCU) series. What’s great about the new F28004x MCU is that...
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