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Texas Instruments recently introduced Matter-enabled software development kits for Wi-Fi and Thread SimpleLink wireless microcontrollers that will help streamline adoption of ...
In this video, a TI engineer at electronica 2022 explains the various sensors that are deployed in a vehicle in order for it to be able to drive itself.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: TI’s MSPM0 MCUs help simplify the process of determining the best scalable microcontroller family, pinpointing the right MCU for a project, or ...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: A reliable and intelligent battery-gauge algorithm helps measure state of health and state of charge for batteries powering unpredictable dynamic...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: TI’s unique resource collection of designs and circuits can help any engineer, whether you’re fresh out of school or have many years of design ...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: AVs offer a huge technological “wow” factor, but they must provide a safe and convenient ride. This article examines technologies like ADAS and...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: BAW clocks offer low jitter as well as enhanced reliability and performance, enabling safer operation, cleaner data communications, and faster ...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: As everyday electronic products gain intelligence and wireless connectivity, designers must choose components that can maintain security.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: To satiate the power demands of data centers using AI, engineers are turning to gallium-nitride-based high-voltage solutions.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Power density, efficiency, safety, and redundancy have become increasingly important factors as data centers handle AI workloads and take on more...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Complex battery systems are becoming a power solution for a range of applications, heightening the demand for advanced BMS and battery energy storage...
Andy recommends favorite resources for basic op amp circuits and includes a portion of TI's AN-20. Test your knowledge with our op amp quiz; answer explanations are included.
TI said the algorithm makes all the difference in its new battery-management ICs, which can accurately track remaining charge even under rapidly changing AI loads.
This article addresses some basic noise principles and how to apply them to each analog-to-digital converter input node to minimize any noise convolving onto the output spectrum...
Discover how Bluetooth Low Energy is revolutionizing vehicle RF architectures by unifying key fobs, TPMS, and digital key systems into a single, low-power platform.
Low-latency audio components and advanced DSP components plus algorithms enable active noise cancellation in discerning automotive cabin applications such as those found in electric...
TI's RES60A-Q1 eliminates the need for lengthy discrete resistor chains with a single-chip, 1.4-kV, resistor divider that achieves 0.1% initial ratiometric precision with a maximum...
Texas Instruments' LMH13000 integrated laser driver delivers an 800-ps rise time and 50-mA to 5-A adjustable output current, enabling LiDAR modules in vehicles and autonomous ...
Is high-voltage DC (HVDC) the future of power distribution in data centers? If so, power-supply designers will have to work through a lot of challenges to make it a reality.
eFuses integrate power switches, digital controllers, current sensing, and all of the other smarts for hot swapping in a single chip. For TI, they represent the future of circuit...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Gallium-nitride devices in transformer-outline leadless packages can serve in applications such as data-center power-supply units, electric-vehicle...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Adoption of 48-V systems will impact everything from components to systems in EV design. The latest advances are helping to ensure the transition...
Discover how a low-dropout linear regulator and a programmable logic device can replace microcontrollers for enable/disable functions, reducing power consumption to just microamperes...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: A new family of GaN power stages plus an advanced eFuse current-limit approach helps designers achieve safe, high power for modern data centers...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Prioritizing software has become essential in design as embedded systems dominate the electronics ecosystem. And many designers are turning to ...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Microcontrollers with neural-processing or algorithm-processing units can help you implement perception, monitoring-and-control, wireless, and ...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Functions ranging from parking assistance to full autonomous driving require multicore processors powered by buck converters that can safely deliver...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: As components such as Class-D audio amps, processors, and microcontrollers become more advanced and integrated, car audio will continue to soar...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Power electronics systems have evolved from using analog controllers with minimal flexibility to real-time MCUs with AI capabilities to provide...
Monolithic ratiometric resistor dividers provide a low-drift solution for converting the high voltages in modern EV battery packs into voltages suitable for conversion and processing...
Throwback time: The basic digital-logic functionality of small-scale integration still has a role, as evidenced by a new shift register and decoder/demultiplexer.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Designing robots requires precision and flexibility. Advanced motion control via encoder systems, sensors, and gate-driver power control are the...
Innovations in cool-running packaging technologies and embedded passive networks are enabling power devices to run at higher power densities and frequencies.
Higher levels of integration and ingenious power-conversion architectures are enabling simpler, denser, more efficient solutions for EVs, data centers, and other critical applications...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Integrating AI into devices on the edge can be simplified with NPU-enhanced MCUs and having the right tools at your fingertips.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: A flyback with a GaN switch offers higher efficiency across all metrics versus silicon—and it’s simpler to design. Enter the auxless option.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Precision management of battery systems requires solutions such as resistor dividers, which offer remarkable specs to meet design demands.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Engineers can turn to compact programmable logic devices to reduce component counts and shrink PCB footprints in their ever-more-complex designs...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Radar-sensor integrated circuits enable engineers to reduce design time and bill-of-materials costs for applications ranging from automated doors...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: More sophisticated cyberthreats have prioritized security measures in wireless electronics design. Thanks to the latest standards, one of the best...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: The poster child for new automotive technology is a dynamic, adaptable system that allows for continuous improvements to the driving experience...
What’s the better option: a single-phase controller design or two converters interleaved in a dual-phase design? This article shares insight into the design considerations and...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Advanced packaging technologies enable the integration of converter ICs and magnetic components into a single module while optimizing efficiency...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Even as digital technology expands throughout the electronics space, analog circuitry is often preferred in multiple applications due to its simplified...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Many of the satellites circling our planet rely on TI space-qualified electronics to monitor changes in climate and oceans, improve farm yields...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Highly integrated chips plus performance-validated reference designs help you develop compact USB Type-C solutions for devices ranging from computers...
Georgia Tech’s ECE undergrads design custom mixed-signal ASICs that are then fabricated by Texas Instruments on 300-mm wafers and returned for testing.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: A controller, digital micromirror device, and power-management IC team up to enable ultra-short-throw projected gaming displays with high frame...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Dedicated engineering expertise in robotic applications, combined with the right product selection for any robot design type, can help you accelerate...
Magnetic sensors offer a convenient alternative to their mechanical counterparts. This article discusses the different types of these sensors, their operating principles, and ...
These ultra-tiny power modules developed by Texas Instruments, which are 23% smaller than competing devices, also improve power density and efficiency.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: As industrial systems become interconnected, demand grows for reliable real-time data transfer. This evolution, driven by AI and the need for precise...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Analog and power projects present challenges you must overcome and tradeoffs that have to be made to achieve optimal results.
Mixed-signal fever hits the power controller community while power densities reach new highs, and magnetic packaging helps shrink power-module size. Plus, another round of open...
Texas Instruments will partner with Delta Electronics to create next-generation EV onboard charging and power solutions, leveraging both companies' R&D capabilities in power management...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Next-generation vehicles capable of higher autonomy levels will need to provide this capability at increasingly lower costs to consumers, which...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Automakers are replacing classic melting-wire fuses with semiconductor eFuses, which offer programmable functionality and don’t require replacement...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Faster, smarter, more integrated processors are essential to robotics design as mobile robots evolve to meet ever-more sophisticated demands.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Outgassing and radiation-based degradation puts strict limits on materials that can be used in space. An advanced product qualification process...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Today’s vehicles with hundreds of sensors, actuators, and electronic control units demand new communications architectures that can handle a mix...
This article discusses how integrating DC-coupling and RF sampling ADCs boosts linearity and bandwidth in RF systems, which impacts overall performance.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: As factories transform to meet the digitization and connectivity needs of Industry 4.0, new services and streamlined efficiency will be the result...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Complex analog, power, and mixed-signal projects can begin with a collection of subcircuits and online design and learning tools.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Thanks to the promise of efficiency, high density, and ability to operate at higher frequencies, more designers now favor gallium-nitride power...
Taking place from April 9-11 in Nuremberg, Germany, the embedded world Exhibition & Conference brings together innovators across the electronics industry landscape.
This edition of PowerBites brings you new developments in hybrid-electric aircraft and a V2G standard, MOSFET moves, silicon and SiC advances, plus more.
TI leverages its integrated transformer technology in its latest isolated DC-DC power module, which is claimed to be close to 90% more compact than comparable solutions.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: EV charging and distributed solar-energy apps are driving the demand for ultra-precision sensing, which includes the use of Hall-effect sensors...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Innovative semiconductor technologies are playing a pivotal role in the development of safety and efficiency in electric-vehicle BMS.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: From consumer products and apps to biomedical devices, AI, and the smart devices that make up the IoT, all have one thing in common—they function...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Automakers are moving from edge architectures to satellite architectures, in which a central high-power ECU applies sensor-fusion algorithms to...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Gallium-nitride FETs deliver greater power density, lower on-state resistance, and higher efficiency than their silicon-based counterparts for ...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Engineers who use embedded development, debug, and analysis tools can spend more time innovating and differentiating their products and less time...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Combinations of switching and linear regulators in space-grade packages enhance flexibility and performance while minimizing size, weight, and ...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Opto-emulators offer a cutting-edge solution for replacing optocouplers without the shortcomings and limitations of photonic isolation, or circuit...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: From circuit “cookbooks” to training videos to a decades-in-the-making analog journal archive, TI offers resources that run the gamut to sharpen...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Offering alternatives to shunt resistors, Hall-effect devices have evolved to offer the accuracy and stability necessary for measuring current ...
Will grid-forming inverters be the game changer for sustainable power grids? What's new in USB-C? Can you really design a high-efficiency, printed BLDC motor/controller system...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: With IoT 3.0 and web 3.0 on the horizon, a new class of devices will evolve that can, ubiquitously and seamlessly, interconnect across a globally...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Embedded processors capable of running AI algorithms coupled with “low-code” software-development tools lead to edge AI applications that can boost...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: ADAS must process massive amounts of data quickly, securely, and accurately. Vision perception and stackable converters to handle the needed processing...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: The emergence of sensor fusion, which involves advanced MCUs and motor control among other technologies, promises to suffuse intelligent mobile...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Current-sensing solutions, buoyed by components like Hall-effect sensors, can offer the monitoring reliability and accuracy needed for applications...
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Sponsored by Texas Instruments: New inverter architectures and products such as MCUs, sensors, SiC switches, and gate drivers with variable gate-drive strength boost EV efficiency...
Switched reluctance motors are tough, inexpensive to build, and don’t require rare-earth minerals, but they do pose some challenges for use in electric vehicles.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Noise is inevitable, but minimizing it is critical for precision applications including medical equipment, test instruments, EV battery-management...
Power density of an AC-DC or DC-DC converter is typically measured in watts of power output per cubic centimeter. The higher the number, the better the power density.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Three categories of ICs and an input-module design example give a boost to the functional safety of robotic and other factory-automation systems...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Faster, smarter, smaller embedded processors implementing specialized hardware will open the door to a vast expanse of systems applications ranging...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Real-time variable gate-drive strength is a feature that enables designers to optimize system parameters such as efficiency and SiC overshoot.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: As the EV industry matures, it’s critical that these vehicles are efficient, reliable, and safe—and isolated gate drivers will be a critical factor...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments. A neural network has an extensive set of parameters that are trained using a set of input images—the network "learns" the rules used to perform...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: High-side switches that combine analog-to-digital converters with current, voltage, and temperature sensors help pinpoint faults in dc power-distribution...
What are the basic principles involved with adding bidirectional capability to EV onboard chargers and the unique capabilities (V2G, V2H, V2V, etc...) they make possible?
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: A unique electromagnetic-interference reduction feature facilitates high-power-density designs while shrinking their footprint and cost.
May 22, 2023
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Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Dealing with the rising complexity and time-to-market demands in modern power-supply design has engineers searching for the right tools to help...
GaN is dominating in chargers and adapters for smartphones and laptops. In this latest installment of "The Briefing," we review its progress at even higher power levels.
If Formula E electric racecars are nearly silent, and don't emit heady exhaust fumes, can they be as exciting as their fossil-fueled F1 counterparts? Can EV batteries really enjoy...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: How will Bluetooth LE impact the expansion of the connected world? Expect the arrival of new low-cost microcontrollers to push that envelope.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: The burgeoning market for compact, economical satellites is driving demand for small, integrated, low-power components that can withstand the harsh...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Commercial off-the-shelf MCUs are incorporating control-law accelerators, trigonometric math units, and other features that let them excel at speed...
This week's lineup includes tutorials on magnetics design and soft-switch power conversion, a highly versatile BMS, and rugged-self-healing dc link capacitors. And don't miss ...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Advances in power electronics coupled with semiconductor technology make it possible to meet topology considerations for power-stage design in ...