Microprocessors and Microcontrollers Reference Materials

Description: Out of the limelight of the intense wireless debates over Wi-Fi® and cellular access technologies is the often overlooked topic of how to build the wireless infrastructure. According to Cisco ...

Description: In this white paper, we discuss the smart grid AMI, focusing on the data concentrators. We will outline the role Texas Instruments (TI) Sitara™ processors play in facilitating intelligent ...

Description: Linaro is an effective means for its member companies to affect improvements in base-level software for the ARM open-source community. This, of course, increases the performance and capabilities of ...

Description: Video compression technology has been around for many decades and despite all the different codecs available in the market today, the basics of compression technology remain unchanged. What ...

Description: In this white paper, we will discuss building automation solutions, focusing on aspects of the Building Control System. TI's Sitara processors facilitate intelligent automation of the control systems. ...

Description: Download this free white paper to learn how to become more adept at finding solutions that increase your ability to effectively and efficiently deliver great designs on schedule. ...

Description: In today's ARM-oriented MCU development environment, 8-bit devices might look outdated, but looks are deceiving. When coupled with modern process technologies and advanced mixed-signal peripherals, ...

Description: Advancement in technology has aided progression of automation and control systems that provide a cohesive operation of various mechanical, electronics and lighting systems. Apart from offering a ...

Description: In today's ARM-oriented MCU development environment, 8-bit devices might look old and outdated, but looks are deceiving. When coupled with modern process technologies and advanced mixed-signal ...

Description: Five years ago, the authors of this paper published their view of future trends in medical imaging in a paper titled, "The future of medical imaging."1 Now, this paper will revisit those visions to ...

Description: The role of embedded software developers has become increasingly important in the innovation of medical technology. Embedded processors used in many medical systems these days need to handle high ...

Description: Choosing the right ultra-low-power microcontroller (MCU) for your next embedded design can be a confusing task when you compare claimed current consumption specifications in a myriad of data sheets ...

Description: BeagleBoard.org was founded to give developers, hobbyists and students robust open-source hardware development platforms so they could quickly and cost effectively assemble systems by leveraging the ...

Description: Enabling complex silicon devices such as systems-on-a-chip (SoC) with operating firmware and application software can be a challenge for equipment manufacturers who often are more comfortable with ...

Description: Over the years, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has pioneered the transfer of ultra-low power consumption technologies from the wireless industry to the broader and newly emerging segments that ...

Description: With the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) in both consumer and commercial applications, there is a lot of focus on connectivity. IoT is all about connecting devices together to allow for higher order ...

Description: This white paper addresses a particular class of machine vision systems - those that are compute intensive - by detailing an architecture and additional resources the reader can use to move forward ...

Description: This paper explores how Texas Instruments KeyStone multicore SoCs offload many software functions into hardware AccelerationPacs or other architectural elements to reduce the amount of software needed ...

Description: The main focus of this paper is to draw attention to aspects of security that are becoming increasingly important for those types of embedded systems which have been driven to a large extent by ...

Description: Optimizing embedded systems for low power consumption requires developers to find a balance between performance and power usage. However, achieving this balance can mean compromising product ...

Description: White Space is the common term used when referring to the reuse of the guard bands (white space) in the digital TV spectrum for the purpose of broadband Wi-Fi® networking. The formal ...

Description: As the world grows ever smarter, the use of electronic systems in industrial, consumer, home automation and other areas has become progressively commonplace. With this trend comes the increasing need ...

Description: Lighting accounts for about 2,200 terawatt hours (TWh) per year - almost one-fifth of total worldwide energy consumption. This number will grow by 80% unless the world adopts more energy efficient ...

Description: Developers of battery-powered devices often have the challenge to offer high levels of functionality and performance while simultaneously maximizing battery life. Applications like water and gas flow ...

Description: Security is becoming increasingly important in a wide range of applications including smart phone accessories, smart metering, personal health monitoring, remote controls and access systems. ...

Description: Evaluating an ARM-based processor for your next design? Download TI's ARM Processor's Selection Guide for an overview of the ARM products, tools and software that are available for your designs. TI is ...

Description: Decreased power consumption results in longer battery life, and, in some cases, enables the use of a smaller, less expensive battery. Traditional MCUs perform the voltage conversion with inefficient ...

Description: Traditional Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) controllers implement the switching of charge across their capacitive segments in an inefficient manner. On the physical LCD, each segment can be thought of as ...

Description: Maximizing the duration of time in sleep mode is extremely important in low-power applications. In these applications, the microcontroller (MCU) spends the majority of the time in the low power or ...

Description: The implementation of direct memory access (DMA) in 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) based on ARM® cores has limitations. Specifically, DMA does not support chaining (connecting a string of ...

Description: In today's world of advanced communication, industrial process control and automotive systems, the reliance on batteries to ensure power delivery is always available is becoming increasingly critical. ...

Description: As application complexity continues to grow, we have reached a limit on increasing performance by merely scaling clock speed. To meet the ever-increasing processing demand, modern System-On-Chip ...

Description: Over the last several years, the concept of the connected home has become a reality across the world. The morphing of devices like the basic thermostat into a breed of power smart thermostats has ...

Description: Designing a differentiated motor drive is a complex task. Often these drives are single processor that combine constraints of real-time embedded designs such as limited memory size and processing ...

Description: Consumer and commercial thermal applications all rely on temperature sensors. Complex industrial applications, such as optical transceiver modules and motor control systems, often use the temperature ...

Description: Wireless inductive charging is gaining popularity for use in consumer rechargeable applications such as cordless power tools, net books, notebooks and other power-hungry rechargeable devices. With ...

Description: As the lighting industry continues to make the transition to LED technology, there is an increasing need for more intelligent controllers and drivers. The rising price of electricity presents a major ...

Description: With increasing interest and demand for renewable energy sources, the market has seen a surge in the deployment of solar photovoltaic systems that convert sunlight to electricity. While new ...

Description: Energy harvesting technology is rapidly emerging as a viable power supply option for embedded system designers, enabling wireless sensors to be used in applications that previously were not feasible ...

Description: If you currently design or have designed power electronics using Texas Instruments (TI) TMSxF24xx DSPs, this guide will highlight the migration path and benefits to migrating TMSxF24xx-based designs ...

Description: New white paper: Learn how Atmel Studio 6 maximizes IP reuse for faster design process. The integrated development environment (IDE) has gradually changed the face of software development over the ...

Description: n the quest for higher efficiency in high wattage power supplies, designers are turning to the digital implementation of these power systems in greater numbers. This article features the ...

Description: The various development stages of electric vehicles range from simple start/stop systems, to mild hybrids, in which an electric motor provides the combustion engine with torque support, to full ...

Description: Gesture recognition is becoming a commonplace technology, enabling humans and machines to interface more easily in the home, the automobile and at work. Gesture recognition has long been researched ...

Description: Various predictions of data demand on wireless networks over the next three to ten years show significant growth, outpacing the predicted network capacity. Operators can act defensively and start ...

Description: Today, SBCs typically use a general-purpose processor to implement control, signaling and management function. Specialized hardware in the form of DSPs is added for efficient transcoding, tone ...

Description: To improve the overall perceived quality of images that focus on human faces, skin-tone macroblock detection offers a low-complexity solution. This paper shows how different techniques can be ...

Description: TI achieves the "Wolverine" platform's impressive power gains through its new 130-nm ultra-low-leakage (ULL) process technology, integrated low-power non-volatile memory and enhanced MSP430 DNA with ...

Description: Recent revolutionary advancements have shown that a more intuitive, engaging and captivating user interface will not only improve the effectiveness of the system, but also boost the productivity of ...

Description: Designing, developing, integrating and deploying a complete software system for an embedded application involves a large number of interrelated questions and optimization tradeoffs. With proper ...

Description: Critical Link was approached by a customer who needed to develop a spread spectrum radio transceiver for several applications. The end result of this project was a prototype system that has been used ...

Description: Recon Instruments created a "first" in winter sport goggles with the MOD Live, utilizing TI's solutions to develop a product that met all design requirements and goals. With integrated ...

Description: Texas Instruments is world's first semiconductor company to license EtherCAT technology and integrate it into the Sitara AM335x ARM generation of ARM Cortex-A8-based microprocessors (MPUs). This ...

Description: The Cloud RAN (Radio Access Network) is a hot topic in the wireless community. Cloud RAN takes its place along with small cells, distributed antenna systems (DAS), ac¬tive antenna arrays (AAA) and ...

Description: This paper examines the evolution of media gateways, the role that TI's digital signal processing (DSP) technology has played in this evolution and how the emergence of the network coprocessor (NetCP) ...

Description: Designing a smart water or gas utility meter can present a vexing low-power challenge for embedded control systems requiring RF connectivity. Since a single service call from a technician often ...

Description: This document assists in estimating the power consumption for the TMS320C5504/C5505/C5514/C5515 and TMS320C5532/C5533/C5534/C5535 digital signal processors (DSPs). Power consumption on these devices ...

Description: This document provides the minimum changes required to migrate from TMS320C5515/05 to TMS320C5535/34/33/32. Enhancements or new features of the TMS320C5535/34/33/32 devices that do not affect ...

Description: This document describes the features of the on-chip ROM for the TMS320C5535/34/33/32 digital-signal processors. Included is a description of the bootloader and how to interface with it for each of the ...

Description: The PIC12LF1840T48A is a Microchip microcontroller that has an on-board transmitter. The transmitter is suitable for operation in the 418, 434 and 868 MHz license-free ISM bands. The modulation is ...

Description: This application note describes how to drive a stepper motor with a dsPIC33F motor control family DSC. The eight PWM channels (six pins from the PWM1 module and two pins from the PWM2 module) are used ...

Description: As the demand for Graphical Embedded Applications becomes more popular, so does the need for developing cost effective solutions. Many companies today offer solutions involving an additional internal ...

Description: This application report enables easy migration from MSP430F2xx Flash-based MCUs to the MSP430FR57xx family FRAM-based MCU. It covers programming, system, and peripheral considerations when migrating ...

Description: Golden-i headsets are cutting edge devices activated by hands-free natural speech recognition and user gestures to enable fi eld-based medical, public safety, industrial and construction professionals ...

Description: his white paper addresses the challenge to add more features in peripheral device systems to improve sound and voice quality. Peripheral audio devices are moving towards adding more complex features ...

Description: Stellaris® microcontrollers (MCUs) were the first MCU on the market to be based on the ARM® Cortex™-M core, an architecture that has quickly become a top choice for many developers ...

Description: Electronics continue to play a major role in products where functional safety is the most important consideration. Ensuring that products meet the stringent functional safety requirements of standards ...

Description: Engineers have many options when selecting the optimal battery to support and maximize the service life of their applications. As batteries become more sophisticated in design and function, you must ...

Description: The ability to power wireless sensor nodes from harvested energy sources allows embedded designers to offer self-sustaining systems with a significantly reduced cost of ownership for the end-user as ...

Description: Embedded developers and product managers are under continuous pressure to push the envelope of cost, size, power consumption and performance in their next portable medical device designs. In order to ...

Description: In today's advancing market, the growing performance and decreasing price of embedded processors are opening many doors for developers to design highly sophisticated solutions for different end ...

Description: Historically, a signifi cant challenge in implementing and deploying multicore System-on-Chip (SoC) devices has been the availability of proper tools to program and debug these platforms. For ...

Description: Texas Instruments recently announced a new microcontroller family that implements FRAM as non-volatile memory instead of Flash, today's most common programmable, non-volatile memory technology. The ...

Description: In the last decade we have experienced huge changes in the way we communicate. We have moved from fixed and wired plain old telephone service (POTS) to briefcase-sized mobile phones, and more recently ...

Description: Going green isn't just a trend. It's a necessity today because of obvious environmental reasons. Most industries have started taking a green approach, but semiconductor manufacturers have taken this ...

Description: This white paper discusses results of input/ output (I/O) processing on the general-purpose processor (GPP) for a DSP-centric programming model using a system-on-chip (SoC) containing both digital ...

Description: In today's system-on-chip (SoC) platforms containing multiple heterogenous processors, the system architect needs to know how to deal with power management facilities provided with different operating ...

Description: With the growing importance of energy efficiency and smart grid technology, there is an increasing need for reliable silicon that supports real-time control with an interface capable of connecting to ...

Description: As the complexity of applications implemented on SoC devices continues to increase, higher performance and many different connectivity options are required. TI continues to extend the capabilities of ...

Description: This white paper will highlight the difficulties in developing and maintaining fi rmware (bootloaders), middleware (OS/application drivers) and hardware IPs for interfacing with raw NAND devices. ...

Description: A well-designed human machine interface (HMI) can be a major selling point for an embedded electronic system. From medical instruments and consumer devices to industrial controls, a nice display with ...

Description: Realizing the need for low-power, cost-effective solutions, TI is committed to strengthening its embedded processing portfolio with a range of ARM-based solutions meeting the power, performance and ...

Description: Standard interfaces integrated into an embedded processor helps ease a system designer's work by providing interoperability with other products and reducing design cost and cycle time. But they can ...

Description: The High Temperature Guide offers an overview of TI's wide range of semiconductors for use outside standard temperature ranges. These components form a complete signal chain roadmap for electronics ...

Description: This white paper discusses how market trends, the need for increased productivity, and new legislation have accelerated the use of safety systems in industrial machinery. This TÜV-qualified FPGA ...

Description: Approximately one-third of embedded designers surveyed on the adoption and use of FPGAs for embedded applications responded that they perceived FPGAs as too expensive to use in their designs. However, ...

Description: As more applications continue to integrate LED technology, developers find themselves facing the challenge of driving greater numbers of LEDs while lowering system cost and increasing power ...

Description: To take advantage of the growing opportunities in Smart Metering and other energy-control applications, developers need to be able to add communication links to existing systems in a cost effective ...

Description: Performance, efficiency, flexibility and protection - these are the attributes paramount to power electronics technologies, such as motor control, digital power, renewable energies, lighting, and ...

Description: Digital motor control has been a challenging subject since the beginning of early implementations. Although digital control techniques and the availability of high-speed microcontrollers made life ...

Description: Power line communications use existing power line infrastructures as a cost-effective alternative to wireless and other wired communications standards, introducing intelligent monitoring and control ...

Description: Texas Instruments' (TI) Integra™ DSP+ARM devices combine a digital signal processor (DSP) and an ARM® processor, enabling developers to create applications best suited for executing a ...

Description: When developing a new systems design, evaluating and choosing the proper microcontroller (MCU) is a critical step. An evaluation kit needs to demonstrate how capable the MCU is at performing the tasks ...

Description: Texas Instruments (TI) has a long history in offering optimized production-quality Digital Signal Processing (DSP) software in the form of signal-processing libraries and math libraries that have ...

Description: In 2005, Herb Sutter famously predicted that the free lunch of ever-increasing processing performance was over. Events since that time have confirmed his analysis. While transistor counts in ...

Description: Digital electronic equipment is becoming more sophisticated every day, so the programs running these processor-driven systems are becoming bigger and more intricate. Debugging these complex programs ...

Description: The 32-bit C2000™ Piccolo™ microcontroller from TI provides a true single chip solution for multiple motor drives, including the front-end PFC. In this paper, implementation of controlling ...

Description: The challenge of identifying which MCUs are truly low power is rarely a simple task, requiring designers to navigate though the numerous (and often confusing) claims made by various semiconductor ...

Description: Developers are always looking for ways to reduce the cost of their embedded systems without compromising the availability of peripherals or system performance. This white paper explores the option of ...

Description: This manual describes the modules and peripherals of the MSP430x5xx family of devices. Each description presents the module or peripheral in a general sense. Not all features and functions of all ...