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“Why on earth did you get a tattoo of Watt's Law across your forehead?!?!”
"Honey, it's to remind me to always have the power consumption of my design on my mind.""What?!?!?!?""Watt is right! You see, my design is based on the AM335x Sitara ARM Processor and there's a tool...
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Painting a picture for powering high-performance FPGAs
Last weekend when it was hot outside, I decided to do some touch-up painting around the house. When the interior of the house was painted back in 1999, the painter dropped off a can of left over...
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DIY with TI project brings a nautical chart to life
Michael Zwerg is the design team lead on the TI MSP430. So it comes as no surprise that when this DIYer created an animated nautical chart with lights, an MSP430 fully controlled the chart.“This...
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Back to School Sale! (Part 4 - MetaWatch)
In the past 3 weeks, we gave you everything you need to jumpstart wireless development with deals featuring the MSP430 LaunchPad, the SA430 spectrum analyzer and the eZ430-Chronos. To conclude our Back...
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Tricks in current regulation when micro-stepping a stepper motor
I have a friend who just loves the latest technology around the world. With all the fever over 3D printers, he recently invited me to his apartment to admire his new masterpiece, a homemade 3D printer....
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The BeagleBoard.org Foundation takes a bite out of the Big Apple
"Yum!! NYC tastes so sweet," says Boris the Beagle from the BeagleBoard.org foundation. “Almost as sweet as developing face detection, creating a 3D printer and other great stuff all while painting the...
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TI High Tech High Heels provides life-changing opportunities for...
Wanda Gass is officially retired from TI, but you wouldn’t know it by how she spends her time. As the executive director of the High Tech High Heels Fund and volunteer for the National Alliance for...
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Changing LED color in solid state lighting
As Tim Sullivan indicated in an earlier blog as well, LED lighting is a relatively new technology. Engineers that used to change bulb color through the glass fixture are now finding themselves...
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Don’t miss your chance to win a BeagleBone Black at Linux Plumbers Conference!
Will you be attending the upcoming Linux Plumbers Conference in New Orleans, LA, on Sept. 18 – 20, 2013? Texas Instruments (TI) and BeagleBoard.org have teamed up to offer more than 350 developers the...
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Listen up! The buzz around Motorola’s new smartphone
Guest blog from our singlecore friendsWith all the hype around Motorola’s new smart phone, we wanted to sit down with our DSP analytics guru, Milind Borkar, and find out more about the buzz surrounding...
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Get your Motor Running
More goes into making an automotive grade IC than meets the eye. In his Motor Control & Drive post, Mike Firth discusses the qualifications of turning an integrated circuit (IC) into an automotive...
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Add a little TINA to spice up your circuit
Before we get started, let me first acknowledge that nothing replaces the good old fashion way of working at a bench in the lab with scopes, analyzers and audio precision measurement devices!Now, with...
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Packaging drives next generation solutions
It’s not an understatement to say that packaging advances have revolutionized end user equipment in as significant way as improved silicon technologies. Early in my career, a 64 pin microprocessor...
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Did Somebody Say “New LaunchPad”?
You’ve been loyal LaunchPad users since we announced our first LaunchPad in June 2010. You’ve created your own BoosterPacks , you’ve blogged, you’ve helped out on the forum, you’ve bought our fellow...
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DIY with TI: A garden scale railroad powered by TI technology
When you think of hobbies, you might think of more passive, leisurely pursuits like reading a book, cooking or coin collecting. But when a TIer takes on a hobby, they often spin it into a DIY with TI...
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IEEE 802.3: On the issue of Backwards compatibility
As this is my first blog post, I want to take a second and let you know why this blog is important to me. I know that not everyone who uses PoE can be part of the IEEE committee and this is one more...
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Lego + Sitara = Total Robot World Domination
During my formidable years, I was hooked on the Jetsons. Saturday mornings I would rush to my TV to see what antics that wacky family would get into. Their robot, Rosie, always had a special place in...
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Giving More Life to LiFePO4 Batteries
Designers of portable electronics have many flavors of lithium batteries to consider for a design. It’s often difficult to understand how and when certain batteries discharge, especially when dealing...
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TI keeps its “eye” on university research with the USC Artificial Retina Project
In elementary school we were all taught the scientific method. The part many of us disliked the most came after testing and analyzing the results of an experiment only to find out our hypothesis was...
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Learning about EMI from my DIY lightning detector
In this month’s post on our companion blog, the “Precision Hub” on Planet Analog, I share an idea I had about EMI and lightning.After watching a storm, I started thinking about the EMI challenges we...
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