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PowerLab Notes: What’s in a reference design?
I have a 10-month old daughter. As many of you with children know, the sleeping schedule can be a bit tricky. Sometimes I find myself up late at night getting drawn into infomercials. I have seen so...
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Spin It! - Designing your own motor drive and control system (Part 4)
Part 4: Dos and don’ts of layout designHowdy and welcome back!In my previous posts, we pieced together a system, found our components, conquered the mighty schematic, and reviewed, reviewed, and...
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See the 100GbE system video demonstrations from DesignCon 2014
DesignCon 2014 is almost over so if you missed one of the hottest topics on the show floor, don’t worry, we can show you the video right here at Analog Wire. Click on these thee videos to see 100GbE...
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Frequency references: Startup time
In the previous post in this series, we discussed the crystal parameters including load capacitance CL, motional inductance Lm and motional capacitance Cm. Continuing on, let’s suppose you have a...
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Inspiring TIer named to Fast Company’s ‘Most Creative People in Business’ list
Lots of things get TIer Marshall Capps up in the morning: The potential of a new idea. The challenges that must be overcome. The accomplishment of a completed product. But nothing comes close to the...
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Answers: “A Plethora of Puzzling Op Amp Problems?”
Tim Green Here is the moment you have all been waiting for – the answers to the six op amp puzzles I posted last week. You know, the ones that you have all been puzzling and puzzling until your puzzler...
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Jazz up your Beagle!!!
You can now jazz up your Beagle - for free! From now until March 1, 2014, Adafruit will be giving away 10 svelte BeagleBone Black (BEAGLEBK) cases per week! It has a glossy clear cover and modern...
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Kicking off the Lunar New Year with WEBENCH®
The Lunar New Year is here! As one year closes and a new one beckons, we here in the Texas Instruments WEBENCH Design Center wanted to share with you how the feedback from WEBENCH Designer users all...
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What you always wanted to know about TINA-TI but were afraid to ask! (Part 2)
In Part 1 I explained how to create a versatile and accurate differential source in TINA-TI which comes in handy when dealing with a fully differential amplifier (FDA) or other differential circuits....
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On the Fringe is on the move
The ‘On the Fringe’ blog is on the move! We are folding these exciting and innovative stories into a series on the TI official company blog, ‘Think. Innovate.’ Head over to the blog to learn how we...
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Advanced safety and driver assistance systems paves the way to autonomous...
To make self-driving cars a reality, there will be many legal, social and structural hurdles to overcome. While almost all of us have read in science fiction or watched in movies “auto piloted” cars,...
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TI focuses on fostering diverse leaders
By Samantha Dwinell, TI Vice President of Talent ManagementAs vice president of talent management at TI, one of the most rewarding parts of my job is seeing leaders develop and grow their careers and...
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Native 0.9V MSP430L092 MCU enables smaller and greener products to run from a...
There is a growing trend within the electronics industry to develop smaller products that run from smaller batteries by consuming as little power as possible. However, system solutions for products...
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Future Battery Chemistries: Zn-air
One of the best ways to increase a battery's energy without increasing the voltage, while considering the aggressiveness of the material, is to increase the number of transferred electrons. In that...
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IEEE 802.3: January recap part 2 - a closer look
In my last blog post, I wrapped up the goings on at the IEEE802.3 Interim meeting in Indian Wells, California. I wanted to follow up that post with another that dug a little deeper into some of the...
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‘Manufacturing’ a culture of innovation
All over the world, ideas from TIers are constantly being put into action, resulting in revolutionary and incremental innovations. From state-of-the-art, advanced technological advances to very...
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I have a capTIVAting secret - flex your ARM to find out what it is!
C.P. RavikumarTexas instrumentsAssembly language programming on the TIVA launchpad? That certainly sounds like fun!The TIVA launchpad is based on ARM Cortex-M4. Let us jump right into an example and...
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Simulation Power!
Dave Wilson, Motion Products Evangelist, Texas InstrumentsAs many of you know, I am a BIG fan of using simulation tools to unlock the mysteries of the motor control universe. With embedded...
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Measuring additive jitter in fanout buffers
If you’re working in the communications industry, then you are probably familiar with the effects of jitter on the performance of your system. Jitter will degrade the performance of data converters...
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The Internet of KoolThings, aka “IoKT”
Guest blog written by Hoang Nhu, CEO at KoolTechs IncWhat do proximity tagging, garage-door opener, BBQ-grill temperature probe, pedometer-for-TV time, streaming music via Siri/Google-voice command...
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