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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 ...
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Low EMI Layout Made Simple
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout for Switched Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) is critical to achieve proper converter operation, good thermal performance, and excellent radiated EMI performance. ...
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Low-power Signal Conditioning For A Pressure Sensor
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This article describes the signal conditioning required to interface an analog pressure sensor to a digital processing unit for further processing. Design considerations and specific steps are shown ...
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Ready to Make the Jump to JESD204B?
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This white paper examines the system implications around the JESD204B data converter interface standard. Learn which parameters will influence your analog-to-digital (ADC) or digital-to-analog (DAC) ...
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Synchronous Rectification Boosts Efficiency By Reducing Power Loss
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This technical article describes how synchronous rectification is beneficial in low-duty-cycle applications as the load current increases. The lower losses with synchronous rectification can improve ...
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Topology and Noise Using Multiplying DACs
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This paper explores the noise issues that are inherent in the design of programmable gain amplifiers (PGAs) when multiplying digital-to-analog converters (MDACs) are used as the programmable gain ...
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Understanding Electromagnetic Compliance Test in Digital Isolators
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: For a system designer working with high voltage and high-voltage isolation, one of the most important tasks is to choose the right digital isolator for the system. Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) ...
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Using a SAR A/D Converter For Current Measurement in Motor Control Applications
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: With careful analysis, a designer can get good performance from what may, at first, look like incompatible components in a motor control system. One might assume that for a ±5V output signal from the ...
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Voltage-Level Translation With LSF Family
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: This document discusses applications for the LSF010x family of devices when used as bidirectional voltage translators. It includes theory of operation, example applications, example schematics, ...
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Wide VIN Power Management ICs Simplify Design, Reduce BOM Cost, and Enhance Reliability
From: Texas InstrumentsDescription: Increasingly, wide input voltage power management integrated circuits (ICs) that combine features previously available only at lower voltages are now available at competitive prices. High-voltage ...
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Application Note: Superjunction MOSFET for Charger Applications
From: Infineon Technologies AGDescription: This application note describes the fundamental differences between a Superjunction MOSFET and a standard MOSFET. Additionally, all features and benefits impacting the target applications will be ...
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Application Review and Comparative Evaluation of Low Side Gate Drivers
Description: Power MOSFETs require a gate drive circuit to translate the on/off signals from an analog or digital controller into the power signals necessary to control the MOSFET. ...
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Gate Resistor Design Guidelines for SupreMOS MOSFETs
Description: The faster switching of power MOSFETs enables higher power conversion efficiency. However, parasitic components in the devices and boards are involving switching characteristics more as the switching ...
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Driving and Layout Design for Fast-Switching Super-Junction MOSFETs
Description: Power MOSFET technology has been developed towards higher cell density for lower on-resistance. ...
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New Generation Super-Junction MOSFETs: SuperFET II and SuperFET II Easy-drive MOSFETs for High Efficiency and Lower Switching Noise
Description: Power MOSFET technology has developed toward higher cell density for lower on-resistance. ...
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AN-10 The Rail to Rail Advantage
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: Examples are given to illustrate the technical advantages for a power operational amplifier whose output voltage can closely approach the power supply voltages both for dual and single supply ...
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AN-12 The Problem With Current Limit
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: Traditional current limiting circuits may not offer the operational amplifier the protection it needs to be reliable in an application circuit. The problems associated with one traditional current ...
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AN-14 Cooling Power Op Amps
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article outlines the advantages of active cooling as compared to passive heat sinks in reducing the volume and weight of power op amps in industrial applications. The relative reliability of ...
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AN-16 PCB Layout Guidelines for High Voltage Amplifiers
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: Standard company design rules for printed circuit boards may not meet the requirements for high voltage amplifiers manufactured by Power Amp Design. The article proposes PCB geometries consistent with ...
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AN-18 Motherboard Layout Guidelines for Power Op Amps
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article targets several high priority goals in the layout of motherboards to support power operational amplifier application circuits. PCB designers who follow the suggestions are assured that ...
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AN-20 Beginner's Guide to PAD Power
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article provides a step by step guide for beginners using the PAD Power spread sheet, based on Excel, for analyzing power amplifier application circuits for reliability in terms of output ...
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AN-22 Single Supply Operation With Power Op Amps
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article outlines the problems and solutions for operating power op amps with a single high power supply voltage. Several application circuits are proposed that may help the user reduce system ...
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AN-24 Eliminating Circuit Noise From Cooling Fans
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article covers the electrical noise considerations for connecting the cooling fan of Power Amp Design power op amps to the signal circuits. ...
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AN-26 About Power Ratings
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: A brief discussion of the meaning of power ratings as they relate to power operational amplifiers. ...
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AN-28 Power Op Amp Specifications Discussion
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The meaning of the performance specifications for power op amps is discussed with tips and insights. ...
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AN-32 Using Evaluation Kits to Implement Parallel Operation
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: How to use two or more evaluation kits to connect power op amps for parallel operation. ...
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AN-34 Force & Sense Application for Power Op Amps
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: The article details a force and sense application for power op amps using a familiar differential amplifier application for IC small signal circuits. Some familiarity with op amp circuits is assumed. ...
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AN-42 Using Evalutation Kits to Implement a Current Source Circuit
From: Power Amp DesignDescription: Power Amp Design's evaluation kits are normally configured to build voltage control application circuits, but it is also possible to build a current mode (transconductance) circuit as detailed in ...
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Bridging the Price/Performance Gap Between Silicon Drift and Silicon PIN Diode Detectors
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: Figures and graphs from Denver's X-Ray Conference 2009. ...
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MX-40 GPI Drain Pad Bonding
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: The MX-40 has a very small gate capacitance (0.26 pF). This is accomplished by making the diameter ("width") of the gate very small. With a drain pad diameter of only 70 µm and a gate diameter of ...
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SiC - MOSFETs
Description: Thanks to SiC's breakdown field strength that is ten times higher than that of silicon, SiC devices can be constructed to withstand the same breakdown with a much smaller drift region. In theory, SiC ...
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OIS - Optical Image Stabilization
Description: Whether capturing still images or recording moving video, image stabilization will always be a major factor in reproducing a near perfect digital replica. A lack thereof will result in image ...
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Separate the Pain from the Gain in Selecting Power Discretes
Description: This tech brief discusses fundamental strategies for evaluating and selecting power discrete semiconductors. ...
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Six Fundamentals of Power Management Design
Description: This tech brief describes the fundamental challenges of power management design and provides options for design requirements. ...
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Dirty Dozen: The 12 Most Common Mistakes of Specifying Circuit Protection for Equipment
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: It's only a circuit breaker. Yet there is enough complexity and confusion when it comes to specifying circuit protection that many engineers are designing equipment with too little or too much ...
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Enhanced Short Circuit Protection for SCADA/RTU Systems with Remote Reset Capabilities
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: Process automation projects are most often driven by bottom line results, return on investment and an appropriate value position or justification. ...
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Improve Plant Production by Addressing 24VDC Switch-Mode Power Supply Issues
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: This white paper describes switch-mode power supplies and traditional circuit breakers, and explains the technology behind a new solid-state technology. It later explains how it solved a long-standing ...
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Overload or Short Circuit Protection? How to Protect your Design Against Both Dangers
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: Short circuits and overloads put different demands on circuit breakers. It is imperative that engineers know how to protect their designs against both dangers. Circuit breakers are used in a variety ...
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Utilizing Class I Div. 2 Circuit Breakers in Liquid Natural Gas Applications
From: E-T-A Circuit BreakersDescription: An increase in the demand for energy worldwide has driven the search for alternative primary sources of energy, even to the most remote locations of the globe. Natural gas, one of the leading ...
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PROFINET® on TI's Sitara™ AM335x processors
Description: PROFINET® is the leading industrial Ethernet standard for industrial automation. Texas Instruments (TI) has integrated the PROFINET technology into its Sitara ™ AM335x processors, based on ...
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Simplifying the Bluetooth® pairing experience using a dynamic NFC transponder
Description: Bluetooth® has become a standard feature in all smart phones and tablets allowing communication with Bluetooth enabled headphones, speakers, cameras, watches and other devices. With so many ...
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Building a Wireless Infrastructure: The Critical Role of Backhaul
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 ...
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Data concentrators: The core of energy and data management
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 ...
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Linaro Speeds Development in TI Linux™ SDKs
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 ...
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The Next Frontier in Video Encoding
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 ...
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Building automation for enhanced energy and operational efficiency
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. ...
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How to Overcome Technical Hurdles During MCU Development
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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. ...
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Exploring anti-aliasing filters in signal conditioners for mixed-signal, multimodal sensor conditioning
Description: Some sensor-signal conditioners are used to process the output of multiple sense elements. This processing is often provided by multimodal, mixed-signal conditioners that can handle the outputs ...
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High-efficiency, low-ripple DCS-Control™ offers seamless PWM/power-save transitions
Description: Texas Instruments (TI) offers synchronous buck converters with DCS-Control™ technology, a regulation topology of Direct Control with Seamless transition into power-save mode. This topology ...
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Improved LiFePO4 cell balancing in battery-backup systems with an Impedance Track™ fuel gauge
Description: The Impedance Track™ battery-fuel-gauging technology from Texas Instruments (TI) is a proprietary algorithm that learns battery capacity and impedance over time to accurately calculate the ...
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Linear versus switching regulators in industrial applications with a 24-V bus
Description: This article compares three different solutions that provide a 5-V output at 100 mA from a 24-V bus. A synchronous step-down (buck) converter is compared to an integrated linear regulator and a ...
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How Modern 8-bit MCUs are Reducing Size and System Cost
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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, ...