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What is the storage temperature rating, and why does it matter?
One key metric to determining power-module reliability is the storage temperature rating. When selecting a module, you need to be sure that the module manufacturer is independently verifying the...
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Detecting vehicle occupancy with mmWave sensors
Sensing technologies are changing safety and comfort functions inside vehicles, and it is becoming increasingly important to accurately determine whether and where a person is seated inside. According...
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Strengthening gender diversity in the STEM pipeline
(Please visit the site to view this video)In Peter Balyta's unique role as president of Education Technology and vice president of academic engagement and corporate citizenship, he interacts with...
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How to design a simple...
IntroductionIn a previous blog titled “How to design a simple constant current/constant voltage buck converter,” I discussed how to design a constant current/constant voltage converter (CC/CV). With...
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The importance of automotive Ethernet standards
Ethernet adoption and adaptation by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier-1 companies has been underway for several years now. Automotive-oriented amendments to the Institute of Electrical...
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To mirror or not to mirror: how camera monitoring systems are expanding the...
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear--this message is the tried and true safety warning that has reminded drivers for decades that their rearview mirrors are reflecting a...
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Look at the details when designing an industrial PC – 1% is not always 1%
With process geometries of semiconductor technology declining to 10nm or below, designing the power supply for an industrial PC or single-board computer gets challenging like never before. In addition,...
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Create an intelligent building system: Use mmWave to count and track people
How amazing would it be if the buildings were smart – I mean truly smart? Imagine if a commercial building could tell you where people are located, where they are going, and whether or not they are...
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SimpleLink MCU SDKs: Expand the foundation
A year ago, we released our first SimpleLink™ MCU software development kits (SDKs) with 100% application code portability across the industry’s broadest technology portfolio of wired and wireless...
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Personification of purpose: Margaret McDermott's name ‘synonymous with giving...
Her influence was monumental. Her manner was unassuming. Her generosity was legendary. And her smile was unforgettable.At 106, Margaret McDermott was the personification of purpose. She died Thursday,...
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Optical heart-rate sensors for biometric wearables
This is the first in a three-part series on optical heart rate sensors for biometric wearables. This first installment focuses on how these sensor systems work and what you can measure with them.Most...
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HEV/EV battery management systems explained simply
As shown in Figure 1, a very basic transmission system for an electric vehicle (EV) comprises three system blocks.The battery pack is an array of cells (typically lithium-ion [Li-ion] cells in full...
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Interpreting CW/CCW Pulse Train Output (PTO) Signals
In my previous post , I discussed power protection with the comparator subsystems (CMPSS) and crossbars (X-BARs). Now, let’s step back and examine another common design situation in the industrial...
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Tips for designing a robust computer vision system for self-driving cars
The robustness and reliability of a self-driving car’s computer vision system has received a lot of news coverage. As a vision software engineer at TI helping customers implement advanced driver...
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20 ways Bluetooth has made our life better
Dear Bluetooth,I can’t believe 20 years have passed,You’ve made an impact that’s here to last!As a thank you for all that you do,Here are 20 things to love about you:1. Wireless mice. It’s the little...
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A PMBus power solution for NXP QorIQ processors
NXP QorIQ processors are high-performance 64-bit Arm® multicore processors for cloud networking and storage applications. Two of the high-end QorIQ variants are the LS2085A and LS2088A.There are...
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Less (standby) power and more light
With the highly anticipated ratification of the latest Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3bt, an increasing number of applications are...
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How to approach a power-supply design – part 5
In this final installment of the topology blog series, I’ll introduce the inverting buck-boost converter and Ćuk converter. Both topologies allow you to generate a negative output voltage from a...
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Gigabit xMII for 100BASE-T1: why are RGMII & SGMII important for 100 Mbps PHYs?
Ethernet offers a more flexible networking technology for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), infotainment systems, body electronics and power trains; previous in-vehicle communication...
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Are you smarter than a fifth-generation appliance?
Remember that game show “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?,” in which adult contestants attempted to answer questions from fifth-grade elementary school textbooks? The adults found these questions to...
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