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Bluetooth® Low Energy shifts gears for car access
The automotive industry is experiencing a tremendous transformation driven by consumers’ desire to leverage their phone as a key. By using phone-as-a-key, you can now eliminate the need for a...
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Celebrating 50 years: One giant leap for TI’s integrated circuits
TI aerospace engineer Verie Lima and his family were swimming in a neighborhood pool in the Dallas area on July 20, 1969, when he suddenly heard a woman’s voice shouting, “It’s about to happen!”“Man...
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Layout matters: solving pinout assignment issues for DC/DC converters in WCSP...
The miniaturization trend in consumer electronics has taken hold for good. Consumers are demanding smaller electronics with better features: more flash capacity in solid-state drives, faster...
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Understanding the world of vacuum robots with motor drivers
As the world becomes increasingly automated, cleaning the house with a regular, standing vacuum cleaner feels like a chore. Since the release of the first vacuum robot in 2002, there has been a...
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The need for speed – The future of radar processing
RAdio Detection And Ranging (RADAR) systems have been used in many applications for several decades, including everything from weather prediction to law enforcement, with automotive showing up around...
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Solving synchronization challenges in industrial Ethernet
Want to optimize and improve efficiency of an automated factory setup, increase overall performance in a data-acquisition system, or efficiently detect and correct faults to reduce downtime? If the...
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How PEPS technology is opening the doors to the evolution of car access systems
Car access has become more convenient as design engineers take advantage of technologies that are widely used in other applications. The automotive industry has evolved from providing mechanical keys...
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Using TI mmWave technology for car interior sensing
In my previous article, I introduced the use of TI’s 77-GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) sensors for interior sensing applications like child presence detection, passenger detection and intruder...
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Roll with the design punches and overcome power-sequencing challenges
As boxer Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Good boxers thrive when they can successfully throw their opponents off their game plan. Great boxers,...
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Creating vehicle-to-pedestrian communication using transparent window displays
In the future, your vehicle’s windows may display all kinds of information. New automotive technologies promise to turn standard automotive windows into single-color or even full-color dynamic...
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Designing highly efficient, powerful and fast EV charging stations
As the number of electric vehicles (EVs) increase, there is a growing need to create more energy-efficient charging infrastructure systems around the world that can charge vehicles faster than ever...
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Achieving accuracy in bin picking with TI DLP® technology-powered structured...
In an industrial environment, parts of different shapes, size, material, and optical properties (reflectance, absorption, etc.) need to be handled every day. These parts have to be picked and placed in...
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What is an instrumentation amplifier?
An instrumentation amplifier (INA) is a very special type of differential input amplifier; its primary focus is to provide differential gain and high common-mode rejection. INAs offer high input...
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How education is opening doors in Bangalore
Kiran as grown up in a single small room that does not have running water. But he has a goal: He wants to be an engineer. “Engineers come up with all the ideas,” he said. “They’re the ones who...
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Easily solve design challenges with MSP430™ MCUs
Have you ever found a seemingly perfect microcontroller (MCU) that meets your design requirements, only to realize it doesn’t scale in memory or offer flexibility in peripherals? As a designer, you...
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Understanding embedded USB2 (eUSB2)
What is eUSB2?As applications like smartphones and tablets continue to pack more and more components into smaller form factors, it’s essential that interfaces shrink as well. However, the continued...
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There’s more than one right answer in Jacob Day’s engineering class
Jacob Day smiled down at an empty table in the engineering classroom at Wylie East High School. Two years ago, he would have been readying the space for the students’ first day, setting out nuts and...
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How to avoid the pain of a discharged device
Frustration caused by a dead mobile device battery is not limited to adults with phones. Children too young to read can transform from charming angels to noisy demons when their tablet battery...
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The digital cockpit and the centralization of infotainment systems
An automotive vehicle is a technology shaped by evolving customer needs. Over time, automakers have strived to meet these needs by introducing new designs and offering increased built-in functionality....
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So, what's a VNA anyway?
[[This article is the second installment of a series that explains how to use scattering parameters, also known as S-parameters, in the design of direct radio-frequency (RF) sampling architectures....
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