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Solar Inverter Gateways Connect Renewables to the Grid
Solar is one of the more popular forms of renewable energy, and continues to grow in both commercial and home use. Its popularity is driven in part by solar panels becoming increasingly cheaper, which...
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TI Fellow gets his battery charged with chemistry
Yevgen Barsukov’s love affair with chemistry began when his seventh-grade science teacher showed the class how to burn sulfur. That tame experiment wasn’t dangerous enough for his middle-school...
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Sensor nodes in the IoT
What’s the secret to getting off the grid and operating autonomously? Getting your system down to operate at a low-enough power such that it can run off of harvested energy and/or off of a battery that...
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Performance comparison between two automotive knock sensors
Engine knock sensors are used to improve engine efficiency and performance by monitoring engine vibrations. The engine control unit (ECU) uses this data to adjust the fuel and air ratio to reduce...
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Be social, discuss energy harvesting (on Twitter) live!
Learn more about energy harvesting during our hour-long Twitter chat on July 8 and July 10 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. CDT (17:00 – 18:30 CEST). William Cooper, one of our product marketing engineer...
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TI-RTOS power management features: The Inside Story
TI-RTOS power management sets the standard for low-power microcontroller (MCU) applications. We are excited to announce two new videos that will enable you to learn more about this technology. The...
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Inductive sensing: Improve the ENOB of a multichannel LDC by 4 bits in 3...
In a recent inductive sensing blog post, I introduced the new new multichannel LDCs: the 12-bit LDC1312 and LDC1314 and the 28-bit LDC1612 and LDC1614.There are scenarios in which you might want to use...
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Rise of the Drones
2015 is quickly becoming the year of drones. So what exactly is a drone? According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a drone is an unmanned aircraft system comprising the unmanned aircraft...
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TI commends final passage of Trade Promotion Authority
We are pleased with today’s vote on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) as a reaffirmation of our nation’s resolve to engage and lead in the global economy. We commend the strong leadership of the...
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Power Tips: How to create an adjustable output power supply
The output voltage of a power supply is usually a fixed voltage, but sometimes it may be necessary to adjust that output voltage. For example, you may be able to reduce the power dissipation in a...
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Glimpse into the Electrical Grid – Part 1: Introduction
Ever wonder how electricity gets to your home?The electricity generation, transmission, distribution and control networks make up the electrical grid. Electric power transmission is bulk transfer of...
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What are you sensing? A novel approach for capacitive-based liquid-level sensing
Various methods have been used to determine the liquid-level height in containers, but recently, capacitive sensing has become popular due to the accuracy and resolution of the measurements. If you...
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A small and innovative solution for big machinery
Some of our most inventive products emerge from solving a specific customer problem. That is exactly what prompted the development of the PGA900 signal conditioner– a product released this week.In late...
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Enhance your university courses with hands-on LaunchPad MOOC resources
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are gaining traction with university students and professors, especially in countries where equivalent academic programs may not be available. The resources...
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Four ways to improve your ADC system power supply rejection
OK so power supplies are important – what more can I do?My previous post explained the impact that power supply variation and noise can have on analog-to-digital converter (ADC) performance....
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Four considerations when choosing a sensing solution for liquid-level...
Let’s say you need to measure the level of a liquid in a tank: perhaps it’s for an automotive gas tank, wiper-washer fluid tank or engine coolant tank. Possible solutions include traditional mechanical...
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Autodesk’s Ember…the story behind the technology
Autodesk brings its Ember 3D printer to market with help from TI DLP® technology -- you can see it below When we take Ember to a show or event, it seems to attract its fair share of attention and raise...
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USB Type-C for mobile phones: Changing the way phones connect, one flip at a...
Will mobile phone designers adopt all of the available features in the universal serial bus (USB) Type-CTM specification? Probably not. They’ll weigh their options against the impact on overall product...
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Motor start-up techniques: Part three
I have discussed sensorless motor start-up with our InstaSPIN-FOC™ technology in part one of this series, followed by a discussion of how to generate sufficient torque at start up and maximize it while...
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Selecting the right processor: WiLink 8 plug and play platforms
With all of the processors and platforms available today, deciding which evaluation board to develop with can be daunting. We’re hoping to ease this process with our WiLink™ 8 plug and play platform...
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