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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: Maskless lithography using digital micromirror devices is becoming a cost-effective and adaptable option for equipment manufacturers.
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: The latest microcontrollers featuring field-oriented control bring higher efficiency to motor-control circuit designs in consumer applications....
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.
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.
This second part of a two-part series examines what happens after a short-to-ground or short-to-battery fault occurs and how an automotive eFuse can protect against them.
New microcontrollers from TI deliver 30% faster computing power for single-motor appliances and power-factor-correction systems than previous C2000 MCUs.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
This article discusses how integrating DC-coupling and RF sampling ADCs boosts linearity and bandwidth in RF systems, which impacts overall performance.
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: From circuit “cookbooks” to training videos to a decades-in-the-making analog journal archive, TI offers resources that run the gamut to sharpen...
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...
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.
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: 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...
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?
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...
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 ...
SiC MOSFETs help EV inverters deliver higher performance and efficiency, as well as smaller form factors, but they also bring design challenges to the table. This overview will...
These EMI filter ICs enable engineers to design smaller, lighter, and more affordable power supplies while optimizing system performance, efficiency, and reliability.
Many applications today take advantage of laser technology and the benefits derived from its power density, which is measured by the laser power divided by its beam size.
This application-specific digital signal processor and companion piezoelectric-device driver vibrate lens-mounted piezo actuators to clear accumulated water spots and debris from...
StradVision’s SVNet, the first neural network running deep-learning-based object detection software with full-featured video and vision acceleration, is available for those using...
Electronic Design’s 2022 PowerBest Awards celebrate last year's most significant innovations in power conversion, power storage, and power device technology.
The PCM6120-Q1 is a software-programmable analog-to-digital converter IC that supports the microphone-based needs of automobiles and other high-end audio applications.
The rugged window comparator for higher-power industrial and related applications provides reinforced galvanic isolation, while offering fast response to faults.
TI is trying to transform the tightly wound cylindrical coils and mechanical switches of traditional relays into components that can fit inside a standard IC package.
The 36-V, 3-A synchronous step-down converters stand out from others on the market by combining a pair of input bypass capacitors with a single boot capacitor in the same 2.6-...
Some of the world's largest chip makers are trying to tackle the great chip shortage with a raft of new investments in legacy and specialty technologies.
As system performance demands escalate in industrial and automotive systems, Hall-effect sensors will continue to see widespread use. This article explores misconceptions regarding...
With the growing importance of power consumption in today's devices, dc-dc converters primarily strive for efficiency, with new technologies playing a role to achieve that goal...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Meeting more stringent regulatory guidelines in terms of ADAS functionality, particularly corner turning, requires more sophisticated sensors. ...
The company reported earnings after the Commerce Department said in a newly released report that U.S. companies see the global chip shortage lasting into the second half of 2022...
Current sensing is on a trajectory to intersect with the global high-voltage trend of robust, high-performing systems. Discover the tradeoffs between isolated shunt-based, closed...
As the electric-vehicle industry grows, so too are demands for fast, efficient charging stations, as well as major expansion in reliable infrastructure. Of course, misconceptions...
This year's PowerBest selections recognize electronic power products that help engineers create winning designs and celebrate the people who helped make them possible, despite...
TI rolled out its second-generation chip for short- to long-range automotive radar sensors. The IC brings more than 30% better resolution and 40% longer range than other solutions...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Operational amplifiers serve many applications, from measuring current through a shunt to converting a photoconductive photodiode’s output to a...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: A real-time microcontroller minimizes the time from sensing to action for applications including electric cars, industrial motor controllers, robotic...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Single-chip radar sensors outperform most other sensors in automotive applications. And an antenna-on-package feature reduces overall size, giving...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Factory-programmable precision DACs incorporate NVM, programmable state-machine logic, and PWM generators to serve multiple use cases such as LED...
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Subcircuit examples, a satellite-health-monitoring reference design, and JESD-approved products can help you build accurate and reliable telemetry...