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Part I – Get CerTIfied, not certi-FRIED! Electromagnetic compatibility...
If you follow this blog, you most likely have heard of TI Designs – Precision, our library of high-quality reference designs for precision applications. The first thing you’ll see on the TI Designs –...
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Squeeze!
If you’ve been designing power supplies for more than about 1 week, then you know how it goes. You get some specs and requirements and board area available for the power supply from the system...
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Mind spinning possibilities: Hall effect sensor bandwidth in BLDC motors
Here in TI’s motor team, we are constantly deluged by requests for motor drivers that can spin a motor faster and smoother. In the brushless-DC motor realm, this is pushed to the limit with stringent...
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IoT Innovation Joint Laboratory established in China
Texas Instruments (TI) and Shanghai Dian Ji University held an opening ceremony for the Internet of Things (IoT) innovation laboratory jointly established by them in Lingang Campus of Shanghai Dian Ji...
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Industrial DACs: An evolution of 3-wire analog outputs
Figure 1The diagram in Figure 1 is a 3-wire analog output module that uses a dual-channel DAC8562digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to drive voltage and current output stages with the high-voltage, 36-V...
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How to reduce PFC harmonics and improve THD using harmonic injection (part 1)
As an engineer with TI’s high-performance isolated power team, I work with server and telecom companies which typically need a high-performance power supply. Developing a high-end power factor...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Celebrating #GeekPride
It wasn’t long ago that the word ‘geek’ was a negative term used to refer to those who spent more time with their computers than their friends. Today, we love that ‘geek’ has become a positive word...
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Navigating to World Peace
The traffic in the downtown area of any sizeable city in the U.S. like Chicago or San Francisco can be described on average as aggressive, abrasive and generally tense. Well, I have an explanation for...
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Can You Feel It? Check out the MSP430 Haptics Webinar at E14
Not too long ago, I helped you Game on with the MSP430 HAPTOUCH BoosterPack. As capacitive touch technology becomes more prevalent, haptic feedback allows developers to differentiate their products,...
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Community Highlights - May '14
Welcome to the May edition of Community Highlights! Check out some exciting new projects featuring MSP430 MCUs below!Rocket Badge created by cubeberg (Please visit the site to view this video)Chronos...
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How to design a solar-powered remote sensor
Designing a system to be powered from an energy harvesting power source (e.g. solar panel, thermo- or piezo- electric generator, etc.) requires more design time and planning than designing system with...
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How low is low power?
Are all of you familiar with the term micro power? For linear devices, this usually means a quiescent current of 50uA or less. More recently the term micro gave way to the term nano power, which...
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Teenagers develop first of its kind, TI enabled, anti-distracted driving device
In middle school, TJ Evarts held down an internship with a technology entrepreneur near his hometown of Londonderry, New Hampshire. By the age of 13, TJ and five other teens had the idea for the...
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Automotive Security: Ten years behind the cell phone, but in the FAST lane
Security is one of those topics that everyone agrees is needed, but no one really wants to own. It’s a scary topic that we all hope someone else is addressing. Everyone is aware of the clever hackers...
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UT Austin embedded systems courses develop students that have real world...
By Doug Phillips, worldwide embedded processing university program manager The three course sequence at the University of Texas at Austinprovides students with opportunities to get hands on experience...
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How to reduce PFC harmonics and improve THD using harmonic injection (part 2)
In part 1, I covered steps for generating the desired high order sinusoidal signal in a background loop. Today, I will cover how to inject this sinusoidal signal into PFC control loop along with an...
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What you always wanted to know about TINA-TI but were afraid to ask! (Part 4)
This installment of the TINA-TI series is based on your requests from the list in Part 1. In this post we’ll learn how to generate:Time varying (piecewise linear) sourceFrequency varying sourceTime...
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Oops! I need more current…
Consider this: your boss just gave you a power supply design to finish that was started by a co-worker. He just retired and now it’s your turn to finish his job. The design calls for a 3-A buck...
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There is more to be discovered with Hall sensors...
Hall effect sensors are used extensively in motor and position control applications, thanks to their incredible simplicity and cost effectiveness. TI just launched the DRV5000 Hall sensor family! To...
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Rediscover the Hall sensor
Modern day position sensing technology is incredibly reliable, low-cost and simple to implement. What does it take? A 3-pin device and a small magnetic material! (Actual size)ApplicationsHall effect...
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