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Do I always need an amplifier to drive my SAR ADC?
A successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) generally requires a driver for its analog input to achieve the desired precision results. But at lower throughputs and lower...
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Revitalize Your Designs at TI’s Power Supply Design Seminars
Starting September 11, TI’s leading power design gurus will be touring across the country for the 23rdPower Supply Design Seminars! The three-month series will provide rich technical and practical...
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Part 2 - A voltage reference duel of duals
In my previous post, we talked about three topologies for generating two high-accuracy voltage reference outputs. Today, we’ll compare the performance of these solutions from three perspectives: total...
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Wireless Power by Radio Frequency
Wireless power has the potential to improve people lives who depend on technology, such as hearing aids.NOTE: Omri Lachman is co-founder and CEO of Humavox, a company operating in the wireless power...
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Architecting for the embedded industrial computing world
There is a vast computing world all around us that envelopes our lives yet goes unnoticed by almost all. These are not the massive, cutting-edge web servers that we interact with daily, not the flashy...
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Fish a little this holiday – with WEBENCH
Many of my coworkers love to fish. They get up at four or five in the morning to go fishing, but not in the summer months because the high temperature drives fish away from shallow waters near shore.As...
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From the factory floor to flying high in planes, new TI processors are built...
Today, TI introduced the innovative KeyStone™-based AM5K2Ex family of processors designed for industrial, avionics and more. These processors have the ability to compute a large amount of data...
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All ARM SoCs are not created equally
ARM® cores are becoming more popular as developers realize the advantages of the large and open ARM ecosystem, as well as the inherent advantages of ARM cores themselves- power efficient processing, a...
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MSP430 FRAM records lightning!
Eric Brundick is an IT professional from Maryland with a love of electronics, microcontrollers and DIY home projects. He helps out with the Energia project and can be found at the NY World Maker Faire...
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The journey from project to product
To follow is the second in a series of blogs on the value of participating in the TI Innovation Design Contest. Rice student’s passion for winning Design Innovation project turns into career path...
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Digital power ecosystem accelerates your development
If you use our C2000™ microcontrollers (MCUs) to develop digital power systems that go into applications such as inverter control, power factor correction and power conversion, we want to make sure you...
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8 Success factors with multicore platforms
We are happy to have Aman Gupta, program manager at eInfochips, as a guest blogger today. Aman has been in the industry for over 15 years, driving innovation in video, security and surveillance...
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48-output LED drivers bring vibrant signage to the masses
The next time you are driving around your local town, look around and you’ll see more full-color LED signage and message boards in front of shops, restaurants and across office building walls than ever...
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Solving the automotive EMI issues in new cars with all the screens
Automotive designs can sometimes be difficult to design, because there are so many different systems that must work together in one environment. The vehicle's exterior is where aerodynamics and appeal...
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INFOGRAPHIC: TI’s greatest inventions now and then
Today, TIers all around the world are celebrating Jack Kilby Day, the day, exactly 56 years ago, that marks the anniversary the first working integrated circuit (IC). In July of 1958, while his...
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Timing is Everything: I need a clock, can you help?
Welcome back to our Timing is Everything clock series! Today I will be covering how to select the clock or timing IC that best fits your application.It’s a fair question to ask: “Is there more to...
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Performance comparison between SAR ADC input types – Part 1
My previous blog Input considerations for SAR ADCs, introduced various input types for Successive Approximation Register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs): single-ended, pseudo-differential and...
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Top 3 reasons to use an integrated switch step-down converter in your...
Portable industrial devices, such as point of sale machines and barcode scanners, must walk a fine line between reliability and performance. Being industrial equipment, long product life cycles as well...
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Synchronous design made even easier
I was recently hanging out with a college friend of mine that is a hardware designer for a satellite imaging start-up in the Bay Area, a.k.a. the "Center of the Universe" for new technologies like that...
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Listen in on Twitter via MQTT with TI’s new Wi-Fi® BoosterPack bundle
Want to get the attention of students by integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) into your embedded microcontroller (MCU) course? Using the MSP430F5529 USB LaunchPad Evaluation Kit coupled with the...
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