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Power Tips: Four-phase, 1.2-kW design achieves high efficiency at higher...
To combat ever-stringent power requirements from the industrial and automotive industries, multiphase designs are a popular choice for engineers these days. For current requirements over 25A, more...
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Herculean performance in a low-cost development kit: TI’s newest LaunchPad
In a recent post about functional safety, ‘Better safe than sorry: The role of functional safety in our daily lives,’ the author presents a case for how functional safety is becoming critical for a...
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How to rapidly develop DLP® Pico™ display applications incorporating the...
Today, we made available the TI DLP ® LightCrafter™ Display 4710 evaluation module (EVM) so developers can quickly assess the DLP Pico™ 0.47-inch TRP Full-HD 1080p display chipset . But what exactly...
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Controlling ultra-low power CC2650 wireless MCU from anywhere in the world
by using Bluetooth Smart in combination with full-duplex real-time communicationAuthored by Uffe Bjorklund, founders and CEO of XSockets.NET. He has been working with development around real-time...
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The challenge of implementing higher-power wireless charging
Figure 1: Efficiency vs Output current for Wireless Power ReceiversSmartphones with integrated wireless charging capability have been on the market for several years now, with features and technology...
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Why are flow meter manufacturers switching from mechanical to ultrasonic?
Flow meter manufacturers are responding to the needs of utility companies by rapidly adopting advanced ultrasonic flow measurement technology. Like most companies, utilities generally are in business...
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Developing Embedded Vision
The field of embedded vision is growing rapidly with many cool vision-enabled products coming. If you’re involved with a product using embedded vision, here are a few helpful resources to bookmark:...
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DIY with TI: Wirelessly controlled children’s mobile
At TI, we celebrate the makers and hobbyists who enjoy creating and innovating on their own time. In our ongoing DIY with TI series, we share their incredible Do It Yourself inventions using TI...
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Is your op amp filter ringing? Look at Q!
How do you anticipate ringing in the active analog filter of your operational amplifier (op amp)? The purpose of analog filters is to remove signal in an intentional frequency band, not to...
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Control your power device with PMBus™
Power density requirements for power supplies in cloud infrastructure end equipment like servers, Ethernet switches, base stations, and storage attach boxes is increasing. In response, the use of...
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May the forced UPOE be with you
Contrary to what you might be thinking, this blog is not a review or in-depth analysis about a technology from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It’s about a technology that already exists and...
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One to Watch: Passion shines through for TIer profiled in magazine
In our ongoing series, ‘One to Watch,’ we profile the movers and shakers at TI who are making a difference through their extraordinary work.TIer Ajinder Singh is described as equal parts engineer and...
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Power Tips: Controlling error in measuring power-supply efficiency
Many elements go in to making excellent efficiency measurements in power supplies, but let’s concentrate here on temperature stabilization. Other concerns include quality and calibration of...
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Input Isolation for High-Power Sensor Transmitters
My colleague Collin Wells recently completed a blog series about 2-wire 4-20mA transmitters and their associated design challenges. The series concluded with a look at isolation schemes for 2-wire...
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QNX Neutrino 6.6.0 Board Support Package for AM437x
While browsing the QNX website, I was happy to find out that QNX now has a Neutrino 6.6.0 Board Support Package (BSP) for the AM437x EVM. You can find it here:...
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The official TI in it Father’s Day gift guide
Father’s Day is just a few days away. If you haven’t picked up something for dad yet, we have some inspiring ideas, both big and small, that have TI technology in them.Olio Model One smartwatch The...
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Timing is Everything: Design JESD204B clocking using system reference modes
Hello and welcome back to the “Timing is Everything” blog series. In a previous post, Timothy T. talked about the clocking requirements of the JESD204B interface standard that is gaining popularity for...
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Can you really get a Sitara™ AM437x processor for only $7?
It’s true! If you were thinking about your new design that requires an application processor, be sure to check out the Sitara AM437x processors! They are a scalable, pin-compatible processor family in...
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Multiple battery chemistries, single device!
Lithium-based chemistries are the most widely used cells in portable electronics, but other chemistries also are popular in automotive, industrial and portable-electronics applications. The maximum...
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RS-485 basics: The RS-485 Driver
In my first post , I introduced RS-485 and how it has become the preferred interface standard for many industrial fieldbus applications. In this and upcoming posts, I’ll cover fundamentals of RS-485...
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