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Core Wars (part 1)
I was recently invited to be the keynote speaker at a “Technology Day” event in Milwaukee, WI. (If you have never attended one of these events, you should seriously consider it, as they provide an...
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Crossing the Rubicon with new WEBENCH PCB Export
Imagine this: You are driving along a highway which is fantastically beautiful and a memorable ride, but reach a scenic point and realize that you are at the end of the road. Maybe there is a...
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College students bike across America to get kids excited about engineering
Emma Benjaminson did not have a lot of exposure to engineering as a child. Her parents were both civil servants, so most of her knowledge of the work of an engineer came from the hit TV show “Star...
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Connected gateways for the IoT – ZigBee Home Automation
By Oded Amihai and Saurabh NarangWithin the Internet of Things (IoT), the majority of wirelessly connected devices need that extra help actually connecting to the Internet. True, there are Wi-Fi...
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The Empires Strike Back (part 2)
With more and more MCU suppliers pouring onto the battlefield, the entrenched players found themselves under siege. Would MCUs be forced to surrender to the same fate that DRAMs did years earlier in...
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Sun, fun and technology: TI technology heats up the summer
Summer. To most people who live in the United States the word brings to mind road trips with family and friends, summer vacations at the beach, fireworks, no school and hot temperatures. Here at TI we...
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Inductive Sensing: How to use a tiny 2mm PCB inductor as a sensor
Recently, a customer asked me if he could use a tiny PCB coil as the sensing element for the LDC1000 inductance-to-digital converter (LDC). The PCB coil had only three turns per PCB layer on a...
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Return of the Code Magi (part 3)
In this series we have been discussing the challenges facing the microcontroller industry over the last few decades, and some of the steps taken by MCU companies to remain competitive in a market that...
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Improve backlight efficiency in portable displays
Battery life...oh, where did you go? Ever ask yourself that question at 3 p.m., and wonder how it gets so low so fast? When you look at today’s smartphones, or phablets (as they are sometimes called)...
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PowerLab Notes: Powering the IoT in Our Homes
The Internet of Things (IoT) is already here. There is a lot of buzz lately about the IoT and speculation about how it will shape our lives in the near future. While we have much further to go, look...
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The train is at the station, get on it!
We are at the beginning of June, and many of the students are into their summer break. This also marks the beginning of the next cycle of the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge - India Design...
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Stanford University creates video game controller using TI technology that...
Any video gamer has been there before – palms are sweaty, heart is racing, suddenly you’re breathing just a little bit heavier as the action on the screen in front of you reaches a climactic moment....
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A bone of contention: ENOB or effective resolution?
As you might know, both ENOB (“Effective Number of Bits”) and effective resolution are parameters that relate to an ADC’s resolution. Understanding how they differ, and deciding which one is more...
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IEEE802.3bt: What’s your use case?
As I mentioned in my May meeting recap, an ad hoc was formed to collect use cases for 4-pair PoE. Not only is this an important topic, but it gives me a chance to ask for some reader input again....
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Challenges in high-speed communications
As many of you that work with high-speed signals may know… physics is not your friend – especially if you’re trying to design on lower-cost board materials, such as FR-4. When moving data at 10 Gbps...
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Anywhere. Anything. Anyone: The new SimpleLink Wi-Fi family is here!
Today is an exciting day for our team and the wireless connectivity industry as a whole! We introduced the next generation in our SimpleLink Wi-Fi family, the CC3100 and CC3200 Internet-on-a-chip™...
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Free QNX Neutrino and QT full-day hands-on training on the AM335x Starter...
TI training partner, ICS, is offering a free full-day workshop focusing on QNX Neutrino RTOS and QT. QNX Neutrino has been used in mission-critical applications, medical instruments, routers, air...
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Build it and they will come
Who would ever need 4.5 A of battery charging current? Who would ever have the space for 4-A power supplies in a smartphone? As they say, ‘build it and they will come.’ Consumers these days are...
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Get Connected: SerDes interfaces
Welcome back to the Get Connected blog series here on Analog Wire! In the previous Get Connected blog post SerDes Demystified we examined the serializing and de-serializing of parallel data through...
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TI creates new category of products to connect any device to Wi-Fi
On Monday, TI announced a new family of devices that are a big step toward creating a truly connected world. Now that’s quite a big statement. But Amichai Ron, general manager of Embedded Connectivity...
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