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Make metering more efficient
Low power consumption is imperative for modern meter design. Whether you’re measuring gas, water, electricity or heat, you must limit the current draw to achieve long battery life and/or prevent...
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How FRAM and LED lighting could bring about a new era in stadium lighting
In 2013, the largest sporting event in the world experienced a 34-minute play delay due to a power outage. The delay time was caused by the use of older lighting technologies that required a...
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DIY with TI: Finding the right mix of gadgetry, barbecue magic
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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Win a smartwatch by sharing your NFC wearable design concept!
*The following contest deadline is Friday, July 17. Enter TODAY for your chance to win!Do you dream of creating a solution to make monitoring health and fitness activities easier? Using near field...
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Three things you should know about Ethernet PHY
The evolution of Ethernet is fascinating. More than 40 years ago, Robert Metcalfe was asked to create a local area network (LAN) for the storied Palo Alto Research Center. The result of Metcalfe’s...
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Power Tips: Design considerations for a four-phase 1,200W synchronous buck –...
In part 1 of this blog, I discussed the necessity of interleaving the four phases of a synchronous buck to minimize input/output voltage ripple and improve thermal performance. You can further enhance...
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How fast is your 32-bit MCU?
Designers are constantly challenged with increasing the performance of their processors in order to keep up with the complexity and features they want to add in their systems. That challenge of...
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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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Power Tips: Designing an LLC resonant half-bridge power converter
Unlike traditional pulse-width modulation (PWM) power converters, resonant converter output voltages are regulated by frequency modulation. Therefore, the design methodology of a resonant converter...
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How FRAM MCUs are contributing to portable weather stations
Lack of wind at the beach may not mean much to many of us, but to a kite boarder, it means their drive to the beach was all for nothing. But with the help of a GSM weather station logging and...
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Simple tips for designing sensor circuits with extended scan interface for...
Smart meters in a smart grid have the ability to measure, control and communicate in one single device. For those battery powered smart devices like flow meters, electrical energy is precious to...
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CiTIzenship: Going the extra miles to help others
TIers put our company’s commitment to citizenship into action every day in their jobs and in their communities. In our ongoing series “CiTIzenship," we feature TIers around the world making a...
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How to get started with current sense amplifiers – part 4
In previous installments of this series, I discussed implementation alternatives and how those decisions affect and are affected by device parameters. In this post, I’ll explain how device parameters...
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UT Austin students design head-up display with TI DLP® technology
TI engineers Stuti Ghiya and Muhammad Rajabali fondly remember their time as students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) program at The University of Texas at Austin. As with most...
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How to make industrial Ethernet as simple as a standard Ethernet
TI’s multiprotocol solution provides one simple way to connect to industry’s leading PLC systems which have their own communication protocols We have all heard about how automation is the future, while...
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Understanding MOSFET data sheets, Part 5 – Switching Parameters
Finally, we have arrived at the concluding entry in this "Understanding MOSFET Data Sheets" blog series attempting to demystify the power MOSFET data sheet. In this blog, we will take a look at some of...
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Supercapacitors-the solution for back-up power
The proliferation of applications needing momentary backup power has contributed to an increase in demand for supercapacitors. Supercapacitors, also known as ultracapacitors, are electrochemical...
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Charge pumps: An often unconsidered method of DC/DC conversion
Wouldn’t it be much easier if all devices in an electronic design operated from the same supply voltage? Unfortunately, not all functions have the same supply-voltage requirements, requiring the...
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Planet Analog: 4-wire current-loop sensor transmitters
The publication Planet Analog picked up one of my blog posts for publication to their readers. I invite you to go to their site for the full post. To complement the 2-wire and 3-wire sensor transmitter...
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New advanced WEBENCH® tools empower the expert power supply designer
As a long-term member of the WEBENCH® design development team and previous product line applications engineer, I have been working for many years to bring power supply design tools into the hands of...
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