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Optimizing Battery Accuracy for EVs and HEVs
Description: Automotive battery management system technology has advanced considerably over the last decade. Today, several multi-cell balancing IC features play a key role in meeting the stringent safety, ...
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Implementing Laser Scanned-MEMS Projection in Automotive Head-Up Displays
Description: Automotive HUDs are benefiting from big innovations in MEMS projection systems and are now central to ADAS and safety. The latest laser scanned-MEMS projection systems can provide higher resolution ...
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Microcontroller Multicore Architecture to Advance Automotive Industry
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: How multicore microcontroller for high performance applications is advancing the Automotive industry. ...
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Technical Article: Low Loss Thyristors for High Power Applications
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: How improved manufacturing methods for thyristors are allowing a higher maximum operating temperature of up to 125 °C. This has no negative effects on critical thyristor parameters like surge ...
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Image Sensor: 3D Image Sensor for Enhanced Safety and Convenience
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: Besides driver state monitoring, capturing 3D data inside a car facilitates entirely new human machine interface (HMI) concepts. ...
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Application Note: 600 V TRENCHSTOP™ Performance versus TRENCHSTOP™
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: TRENCHSTOP™ Performance enables higher efficiency in motor control, air conditioning compressors, HVAC motor drives, UPS, solar power converters and all power conversion applications working up ...
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Over-Voltage Protection for RS-485 Bus Nodes
Description: RS-485 has been widely deployed because of its large differential signal swing and reliable operation over a wide common-mode voltage range. However, with this widespread use comes an increasing ...
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Technical Article: The Future of Power Semiconductors: Rugged and High Performing Silicon Carbide Transistors
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: SiC based systems have the revolutionary capability which can be characterized by a steep change in performance which can make them attractive for designers targeting innovative and disruptive ...
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Safety-Critical Challenges In The Networked Vehicle
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: How modern semiconductor solutions enable security systems that protect personal data as well as the lives and limbs of people on the road. ...
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Improving Power Density and Efficiency in Servers and Telecom
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: In a server there might be several places where power losses occur, but in many cases the power supplies for the CPUs and memories are the most stressed components due to the high power requirements. ...
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Application Note: Using a Magnetic 3D Sensor in a Gear Stick Application
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: A magnetic 3D sensor is well suitable for a detection of the position of the gear stick. The "State-of-the-art" solution with up to 6 single hall switches can be replaced by one 3D sensor. ...
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Radiation Tolerant Multiplexers Move to Low Voltage Rails for Space Flight
Description: When a satellite is launched into space, it's accompanied with a multitude of sensors that read out various telemetry signals and statuses for mission critical systems. Digital microprocessors ...
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How to Efficiently Boost Power in High Voltage Automotive Applications
Description: While the 12-volt lead acid battery is still the dominant power source in automobiles, there are new automotive applications that require higher voltages. To address these high voltage applications, a ...
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Understanding USB-C Buck-Boost Battery Charging
Description: The USB-C™ port is a true all-in-one port capable of delivering bi-directional data and up to 100W of power. However, adopting USB-C charging requires a fundamental change to the existing power ...
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How to Monitor Sensor Health with Instrumentation Amplifiers
Description: By their very nature, in amps are a good choice to condition small signals in the presence of large common-mode voltages and DC potentials. The three op amp instrumentation amplifier architecture ...
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Sitara AM437x Device Overview
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: AM437 device overview and data. ...
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Basics of Capacitive Sensing and Applications
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Capacitive sensing is becoming a popular technology to replace optical detection methods and mechanical designs for applications like proximity/gesture detection, material analysis, and liquid level ...
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Capacitive Sensing: Out-of-phase Liquid Level Technique
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Various methods have been used to determine the level height in liquid tanks or containers. Recently, capacitive sensing has gained popularity due to the accuracy and resolution of the measurements as ...
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Developing An Advanced, Predictive Battery Health Monitoring Solution With A Low-cost Microcontroller Solution
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: 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. ...
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How to Measure Total Jitter
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Today, the jitter specification, TJ, is used in more and more systems, at the same time the jitter requirements get lower and lower. Clock generators or jitter cleaners like the CDCM6208 meet those ...
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Interfacing a Water Flow Meter Sensor To An Ultrasonic AFE and Precision Time Interval Timer
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This is an introduction to ultrasonic flow sensing and describes a demonstration setup to measure velocity of flow in a pipe using an ultrasonic water flow-meter sensor, the TDC1000 ultrasonic ...
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PHY Design & Layout Guide
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This application report describes PHYTER™ design and layout guidelines and with this report, in conjunction with the product datasheets, and reference designs, will help ensure issue-free system ...
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TI Vision SDK, Optimized Vision Libraries for ADAS Systems
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: It is apparent that the need for advanced ADAS systems in every car around the world is becoming important to making driving easier. TI has been investing in ADAS technology for years. TI's SoC, the ...
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Low power 3D magnetic sensing
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: The new 3D magnetic sensor TLV493D-A1B6 offers accurate three-dimensional sensing with extremely low power consumption in a small six-pin package. With magnetic field detection in the x, y, and z ...
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History of Transistors
Description: The invention of the transistor that gave an unprecedented shock to the electronics industry at that time was made in the year 1948. That truly was the beginning of the current age of electronics. ...
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Outline of a Transistor
Description: This is the classification based on the differences in the operating features. The classification is made as bipolar transistors and unipolar transistors. ...
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Understanding transistors
Description: In an NPN transistor, the Base is at positive bias, the Collector at negative bias, and reverse current flows from the Emitter to the Collector. Also, please consider problems arising from usage. ...
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How to Improve DC/DC Converter Performance with Phase Shifting Time Delay
Description: In most step-down power conversions where multiple output voltages are required to regulate off a single input source, the switching regulators can impose high input RMS current and noise to the POL ...
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How to Choose Power FETs for ORing MOSFET Controllers
Description: Using ORing controllers and power FETs in place of ORing power diodes can minimize power loss in high-current power distribution systems. This article discusses key selection steps for choosing power ...
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Innovative Foundry System Using Piezoelectric MEMS Technology
Description: Voltage and ferroelectric characteristics are important factors in determining the performance of piezoelectric MEMS. ROHM is focusing on developing a thinner lead zirconate titanate (PZT) material ...
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Design Considerations for High-Speed RS-485 Data Links
Description: The trend in high-speed data networks continues to push for higher data rates over longer transmission distances, and under ever-harsher conditions. This article provides system designers new to ...
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Battery Management System Tutorial
Description: In recent years, the efficiency of a battery in terms of how much power it can output with respect to size and weight has dramatically improved. This ongoing transformation of battery technology has ...
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Topics in Circuit Protection For Power Supplies
Description: The circuit protection market demand is changing based on the growth of 24V DC control voltage. In the US and Canada we've seen a shift from 120V AC to 24V DC as the voltage of choice for control ...
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Use of Motor Protection Circuit Breakers with Variable- Frequency Drives
Description: A motor branch circuit, including a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) and one or more Motor Protection Circuit Breakers (MPCBs), is a complex system and its performance depends on all components, ...
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Accelerators: Enhancing the Capabilities of the C2000™ MCU Family
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Real-time control systems require fast and efficient processing, with latency kept to a minimum in order to maintain stability and boost overall performance. In addition, the increasing sophistication ...
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SPONSORSHIP: DR. DECKS PHANTOM BBQ PROGRESS REPORT
From: Progressive AutomationsDescription: We are partnering up again and working on an addition to his line of "Phantom" devices, this time the Phantom BBQ. ...
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THE 2015 VANCOUVER MINI MAKER FAIRE
From: Progressive AutomationsDescription: The Prosthesis in particular stood out to us with its unique hybrid-electric power source and featured many hydraulic actuators in it's design. The Prosthesis is still in it's early stages and we hope ...
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A Smarter Way to Power Wearable Products
Description: System designers are constantly challenged to create smaller, more efficient and cost effective solutions that will place wearables on the wrists of many more people. Battery life is an important ...
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Designing High Current and High Power Density POL Converter Applications with Digital Power Modules
Description: Today's latest FPGAs, processors, ASICs and associated memories in various industrial equipment have raised the performance requirement significantly on the point-of-load (POL) power converter ...
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How Green Is Your Cloud?
Description: The broadband and smartphone revolutions have dramatically changed how we consume and interact with information in our professional and private lives. Storage and computing servers, colloquially known ...
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How to Configure the Tracking and Power Sequencing of FPGAs
Description: The increase of voltage input rails for delivering point-of-load power to DSPs, ASICs, FPGAs and microprocessors is creating more challenges for power supply designers. Especially as system power and ...
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How to Select a PWM Controller
Description: In high voltage applications where a lower output voltage is required, designers have traditionally relied on modules that increase system cost, or two stage DC/DC solutions that increase solution ...
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Implementing Inter-Module Communications in EV Battery Systems
Description: Careful consideration must be given to the selection of a suitable battery management IC that is optimized for the rigors of automotive applications. Proprietary communication protocols and careful ...
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Power Modules Win Out, but Choose Wisely
Description: System designers everywhere are under enormous pressure. They're being tasked with integrating more power and features in ever-shrinking form factors, and thus adversely affecting the system's ...
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RS-485 Transceiver Tutorial
Description: With so many transceivers on the market, it can be challenging to pick the best, most cost effective device for your application. This in-depth white paper guides you through the choices and weighs ...
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A System Optimized Alternative to FPGAs, the 66AK2L06 SoC
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Get an overview of the 66AK2L06 system-on-chip for high-speed data acquisition and transmission markets including avionics and defense, medical imaging, test and measurement and other industrial ...
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Optimizing Synthetic Aperture Radar Design with TI's Integrated 66AK2L06 SoC
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Learn how to optimize Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, with TI's integrated 66AK2L06 SoC. The FPGA alternative is a KeyStone-based device with a JESD204B interface and integrated DFE. ...
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Switching Regulator Advances Enable Compact, Efficient Power Management Design
Description: Efficient power management is an important design element enabling systems developers to overcome increasing demands for compact size, low-power operation and improved functionality. In addition, many ...
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Bringing Advanced Sensor Functionality to Consumer, Embedded, and Industrial Applications
Description: Sensors play a key role in enabling modern electronics to more intelligently act within their environment. A cell phone, for example, uses sensors to detect when a user is holding the device to his or ...
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Carrying the Heat Away from Power Module PCB Designs
Description: This article from Intersil discusses a multi-layer PCB layout method that uses via placements to maximize the thermal performance of a dual phase power module. The module features two single phase ...
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Expanding the Functionality of Mobile Applications with Magnetic Gyroscopes
Description: Being able to determine a device's position and movement is becoming a standard feature in many portable systems. Systems such as cell phones and tablets use the 6-axis data from accelerometers and ...
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Keeping Pace with Power Hungry Mobile Devices
Description: Systems engineers have come up with creative solutions to increase battery life, and while most power requirements are already integrated into a smartphone and tablet's power management IC (PMIC), ...
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Power Management Solutions for Modern Electronic Devices
Description: Integrated circuits (ICs) are a vital component in almost all fields of the modern world. As a result, power management in these ICs has become more and more critical. From consumer products such as ...
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Thermal Characterization of Packaged Semiconductor Devices
Description: With the continuing industry trends towards smaller, faster and higher power devices, thermal management is becoming increasingly important. After all, higher device performance can come at a ...
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Demystifying Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Programming: The Ease In Realizing Implementations With TI DSPs
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Introduced by Texas Instruments over thirty years ago, the digital signal processor (DSP) has evolved in its implementation from a standalone processor to a multicore processing element and has ...
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How To Select Digital Power ICs
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: The momentum behind digital power in all of its shapes and flavors continues to accelerate as engineers become more familiar with the technology and realize its many benefits. Power system and power ...
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TI's Processors Leading The Way In Embedded Analytics
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This white paper explains how TI is enabling the needed analytic systems across a variety of application areas including surveillance, automotive and industrial inspection with programmable, ...
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Analog ASICs in industrial applications
From: PREMA Semiconductor GmbHDescription: Industrial electronics creates special challenges for analog ICs. For example, on one hand highly demanding sensor amplifiers and A/D converters are necessary, while on the other the ICs are ...
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Selective Spectral Sensitivities of PREMA Photodiodes
From: PREMA Semiconductor GmbHDescription: Selective spectral sensitivities by photodiode structure. ...
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How to Achieve a Stable Power Supply through Digital Control
Description: New trends and changing requirements in the power management industry influence how we design power supplies. Some, like the need for telemetry and system information, are more recent due to ...
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How to Charge Supercapacitor Banks for Energy Storage
Description: Supercapacitors are adopted as energy storage solutions in a variety of power management applications. Because of their intrinsic physical characteristics that provide advantages over traditional ...
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How to Use a Rad Hard Switching Regulator as a VTT Terminator
Description: DDR memory is becoming increasingly popular in satellite and space applications. However, no power solution can survive the harsh environments of space while meeting the power requirements of the VTT ...
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Integrating BLDC Motors with Li-ion Batteries in Motor Drive Applications
Description: The market for battery powered motor driven products is growing rapidly with the introduction of brushless motors and Li-ion batteries, and because of their ability to extend operating time, even ...
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Sensing Elements for Current Measurements
Description: There are many choices of sensing elements to measure current to a load, and the choices of current sensing elements can be sorted by applications, as well as the magnitude of the current measured. No ...
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Simplifying Advanced Power Systems Design
Description: Digital power management and control provide real-time intelligence that enables system developers to build power systems that automatically adapt to their environment and optimize efficiency. The use ...
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The Benefits of Using a Power Module vs. a Discrete Regulator
Description: Today's power systems for communications and computing infrastructure support high current loads from increasingly power hungry FPGAs, ASICs and microprocessors. To meet the challenge of designing the ...
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Using Rad Hard Voltage References for Precision Signal Paths
Description: When selecting a component in the signal path of a satellite system, it is often difficult to find a device with the radiation tolerance and the accuracy required. The main causes of error to the ...
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Benchmarking MCU Power Consumption For Ultra-low-power Applications
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: 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 ...
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Bio-patch Solutions For Health And Fitness
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Bio-patch solutions are poised to revolutionize the health and fitness market and create new ways of providing healthcare both in clinical and remote settings. The wearable sensor enables patient ...
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Designing And Evaluating An NFC-enabled Bio-patch For Medical, Health and Fitness Applications
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This paper addresses the design and implementation of a near field communication (NFC)-enabled bio-patch solution. The design serves as a prototype for a flexible solution that would adhere to the ...
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Designing the Next Generation of Industrial Drive and Control Systems
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: A typical industrial system requires control, application and connectivity capabilities. The control subsystem directly manages motor operation and feedback, the application directs the overall ...
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Developing a Multi-channel Wireless Inductive Charger
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: 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 ...
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Differentiating AM5K2E02 and AM5K2E04 SoCs from Alternate ARM® Cortex®-A15 Devices
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This paper discusses some of the differentiating features of TI's AM5K2E02 and AM5K2E04 processors based on ARM Cortex®-A15 MPCores and TI's KeyStone™ architecture. TI's AM5K2E02/04 ...
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Empowering Machine Vision
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: One of the key technologies to enable autonomous cars is computer vision, using camera-based vision analytics with the goal of providing highly reliable, lowcost vision solutions. While the cost of ...
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Ensuring Real-time Predictability
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: A white paper about leveraging TI's Sitara™ processors programmable real-time unit in order to ensure real-time predictability. ...
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Informational ADAS As Software Upgrade To Todays' Infotainment System
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Learn how TI's new DRA75x "Jacinto 6" Ex processor, a member of the "Jacinto" family of infotainment processors, provides a software-compatible platform to augment existing infotainment products with ...
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KeyStone™ II-based Processors: 10Gb Ethernet As An Optical Interface Between Remote Radio Head And Signal Processing Card For Radars
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This white paper deals with how the 10GbE interface and the processing power of the processors based on KeyStone II architecture helps to address complex time-critical systems like radar systems. ...
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Making Cars Safer Through Technology Innovation
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Today, automotive manufacturers are introducing new vehicle control features to save fuel, add security and convenience, and above all make cars much safer to drive. These changes, designed to assist ...
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MSP430™ FRAM Technology - How To and Best Practices
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: FRAM is a non-volatile memory technology that behaves similar to SRAM while enabling a whole host of new applications, but also changing the way firmware should be designed. This application report ...
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Reduce System Costs with Resolver-to-digital Conversion Implementation On C2000™ Microcontrollers
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: In a typical precision position servo control system, resolvers or encoders are used to provide shaft position feedback to the control unit. Resolvers are more robust and rugged than encoders, capable ...
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Reducing the Cost, Power and Size of Connectivity in IoT Designs
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: The continuing evolution of microprocessor (MPU) and microcontroller (MCU) architectures has led to increasing intelligence in embedded designs. These "smarter" products are now being further enhanced ...
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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Implementation on a TMS320C6678 Multicore DSP
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a radar technique involving moving the radar platform to create the effect of a large antenna and thus achieve high-resolution remote sensing imagery. There are ...
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TI Gives Sight to Vision Enabled Automotive Technologies
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Cars continue to become smarter and smarter, integrating new and cutting-edge technologies to make the driving experience safer and more enjoyable. With the goal of reducing roadway fatalities, ...
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Today's High-end Infotainment Soon Becoming Mainstream
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Consumers are demanding an accelerated evolution of the in-vehicle experience. The infotainment offering has become a greater factor in the car buyer's decision making, as well calling for seamless ...
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Turning the Cloud Into a Rainmaker
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Our lives are changing in exciting ways. Devices in our homes, automobiles, cities and factories are becoming connected to the Internet. This phenomenon has profound implications for businesses. ...
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Very Large FFT For TMS320C6678 Processors
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This white paper discusses the very large FFT (VLFFT) demo, which implements one-dimensional complex single-precision floating-point FFTs of size 16K to 1024K samples on 1, 2, 4 and 8 DSP cores of ...
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Adapting Qi-compliant Wireless-power Solutions To Low-power Wearable Products
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This technical article details how to implement wireless inductive charging in low-power, wearable designs using existing off-the-shelf devices. Among the key factors to consider when designing a ...
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Automotive Line Transient Protection Circuit
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Automobile electrical power systems are subjected to many tortuous conditions over the life of the vehicle. In addition to adverse conditions on the battery power bus, there are also operating ...
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Closed-loop Motor Control: An Introduction To Rotary Resolvers And Encoders
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Is your motor spinning at the intended rate? Closed-loop motor control systems continue to answer this question, as there tends to be a closed-loop system implemented wherever a motor spins. Whether ...
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Compensation Made Simple
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Compensating a DC-DC buck converter is challenging if a designer is not familiar with the loop control theory. To achieve a stable design under all corner and adverse conditions, the user must ...
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Design Considerations to Increase Power Density in Welding Machines Converters Using TRENCHSTOP(TM)5 IGBT
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: The demand for portable low cost welding machines, especially in developing countries, is increasing. In the Manual Metal Arc and Tungsten Inergt Gas types, in power range from 1,5kW up to 5kW, ...
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Determining Minimum Acquisition Times for SAR ADCs When a DC Voltage is Applied to the Input
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: The input structure circuit of a successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) in combination with the driving circuit forms a transfer function that can be used to determine ...
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Determining Minimum Acquisition Times for SAR ADCs When a Step Function is Applied to the Input
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This paper analyzes a simple method for calculating minimum acquisition times for successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converters (SAR ADCs). The input structure of the ADC is examined ...
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Distortion and Source Impedance in JFET-input Op Amps
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Designers of low-distortion analog circuits in industrial data acquisition, seismic measurement, and high-fidelity audio are aware that many operational amplifiers (op amps) produce greater distortion ...
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Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This application report provides an overview of electrostatic-discharge (ESD) test models, failure modes, protection strategies, and Texas Instruments (TI) procedures to guard against ESD failures. ...
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Hardward considerations for a Wireless LED Based Display Design
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Scoreboards have different purposes with various features. Scoreboards are typically used for displaying scores of a game played between two teams. These games can be a timed or an untimed event. The ...
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High-voltage Reinforced Isolation: Definitions and Test Methologies
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This white paper discusses, in detail, the definitions of the above mentioned high voltage Isolation parameters, their relevance to real-life system scenarios, and describes how they are tested and ...
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How to Design an Isolated Buck (Fly-Buck) Converter
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This article presents the basic operating principle of an isolated buck converter. The operating current and voltage waveforms are explained and design equations are derived. The design example shows ...
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Inverting Applications Made Simple
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Designers often require power sources with negative output voltages. There are many different ways to produce a negative output voltage from a positive input voltage. One option is a ...
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Isolated Sensing Systems With Low Power Consumption
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Current-shunt-monitor (CSM) ICs have been a mainstay in industrial applications for many years. Designed for either unidirectional or bidirectional current monitoring, CSMs offer excellent performance ...