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One Million Reasons to Visit PowerLab
During my time with TI, I have spent countless hours with customers all over the world helping them design in TI power products. Typically, a customer will know what the operating conditions are and...
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The need for speed: Turbo-charged CAN
WTHAYTA? What the heck are you talking about? Do you feel that you are always surrounded by people using acronyms and you do not know what they mean? With multiple definitions for the same acronym, you...
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Adventures in Analog – Part 2: Eliminating the Power Supply Noise
I felt like I was watching the movie “Close Encounters of the Third kind” by Steven Spielberg. This movie is about encounters with the extra terrestrial. While close encounters with IT professionals...
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One to watch: TI business analyst Jennifer Quitoriano
When you hear Jennifer Quitoriano talk about her experiences at TI, you would think she were an experienced professional in an established career. Turns out the 23-year-old TI newbie simply has a gift...
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Three elements for efficient processing in medical imaging: Part One
While Texas is still hot, we do have ways to keep medical imaging cool. My colleague, Mark Nadeski did a blog post last month called, Medical imaging is heating up where he discussed some of the hot...
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Boosting your battery run-time through TI technology
When your health is on the line or when the power goes out in an emergency, you want every last ounce of battery power from your device. That’s the goal of the newest Li-Ion battery fuel gauge...
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Flash Memory Summit Contest Rules
If you will be in Santa Clara next week, August 13-15, stop by our booth at the Flash Memory Summit to participate in a contest. We will be featuring demos that include the soon-to-be released LM10502...
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Annnnnnd, ACTION! How TI is revealing the science, technology, engineering...
In zombie movies, how do they make the living dead look so…well…undead? Only a select few of us have ever been to space, yet all of us have a pretty good idea of what it would feel like thanks to...
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SINAD, ENOB and the rest of the family
My wife, who’s not an engineer, recently heard me talk about SINAD and ENOB. After sometime she asked “who are SINAD and ENOB?” She was confused because I use these terms so loosely, a common misstep...
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Sensing the World in mm-Waves
We have seen an explosion of radio services, from cellular 2G/3G/4G to wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and GPS. They have provided the fundamental capabilities for communication as well as sensing and...
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Evolution has been good for PMUs
The primordial human urge is to advance, to make things better, faster and bigger. We see the same human tendency repeated in the semiconductor industry, well, with the exception of bigger, which is...
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Port Linux from a dev kit to your production hardware and win a jammin' prize!
TI and Arrow have teamed up to take your development game to the next level.On August 20, 2013, engineers from TI and Arrow we will walk you through the process of porting the Linux operating system...
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Transient stability testing: Watch your step
Our monthly post on our sister blog, the “Precision Hub” on Planet Analog, focuses on transient stability testing.In it, I share a recent experience I had with one of our summer interns. He was taking...
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The secret to winning the 2013 Engibous Prize: Having fun
Most of the teams that entered into the TI Analog Design Contest were seniors and about to graduate. Not Adam Munich, a physics major from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Adam created his design...
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A closer look at special function amplifiers
Have you ever wondered why there are so many variations when it comes to special function amplifiers? Here, we’ll cover some of those variations and how to best use them in your designs.Special...
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2013 TI Intern Design Challenge: MCU LaunchPad Competition Winners
Every year, TI’s summer interns are challenged to test their technical know-how and creativity. This year, they were asked to create a solution based on a TI MCU LaunchPad or the new BeagleBone Black...
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Phase-dimmable LED drivers and the holy grail of total harmonic distortion...
The LED lighting industry is still very new and many engineers involved with LED driver design are still grappling with all of the aspects, such as options and trade-offs to consider when selecting a...
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Back to School Sale!
Want a new MSP430 tool for your next school project or just looking to take on another project for fun? Every Monday for the next 4 weeks, we will offer a surprise deal to help you get started!So what...
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Happy Birthday C2000 LaunchPad!
The C2000 LaunchPad joined our MCU LaunchPad ecosystem a year ago, bringing a new level of power, performance and capabilities to the LaunchPad portfolio. In honor of its first birthday, we spoke with...
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The decoupling capacitor…is it really necessary?
Before working as an applications engineer, I worked as an IC test development engineer here at TI. One of my projects was to characterize an I2C temperature sensor. After writing some software, I...
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