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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, ...
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Power optimization techniques for energy efficient systems
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 ...
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The C8051 Core: A Viable Compute Engine for 8-bit MCU Design
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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Another Look at the Future of Medical Processing
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 ...
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Medical Software Development on KeyStone Processors
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 ...
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CMEMS® Oscillator Architecture
From: Silicon LabsDescription: CMEMS® technology is an innovative CMOS+MEMS manufacturing process developed by Silicon Labs, a leading supplier of timing solutions. The term CMEMS is a contraction of the acronyms CMOS and ...
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How to Pick the Right Microcontroller Based on Low-Power Specifications
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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BeagleBone Black opensource Linux™ computer unleashes innovation
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 ...
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The Yocto Project: Changing the way embedded Linux software solutions are developed
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 ...
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Power-saving techniques lead to ultra-low-power processors for battery operated devices
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 ...
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Connect Your Micro Controller Unit
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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An architecture for compute-intensive, custom machine vision
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 ...
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Accelerate multicore application development with KeyStone software
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 ...
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Get Into the Zone: Building Secure Systems with ARM® TrustZone® Technology
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 ...
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Balancing Performance and Power Efficiency in Embedded Systems
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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White Space - Potentials and Realities
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 ...
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Simplifying Humidity Measurement
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Humidity sensing technology is critical to a wide range of applications, and despite its pervasive necessity and application across many industries, relative humidity measurement is among the more ...
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An introduction to MSP430™ microcontroller- based temperature- sensing solutions
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 ...
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Automotive and Transportation Selection Guide
Description: TI's Automotive and Transportation Selection Guide contains featured new products, device selection guides, parametric tables, and a wide range of design factors for amplifiers, audio, comparators, ...
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HEV Solutions Guide
Description: The HEV Solutions Guide is intended to help you explore TI's IC solutions as the various sectors become increasingly electrified on a path toward energy efficiency and sustainability. Texas ...
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JFET Application Note: Reset Transistor
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: In JFETs designed primarily for silicon drift detectors and Si(Li) detectors, the reset transistor is configured as shown in Figure 1, with the base shorted to the source, the collector shorted to the ...
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Operation of 3- and 4- Terminal JFET
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: A junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET) is the simplest type of field effect transistor. This device can be used as an electronically-controlled switch or as a voltage-controlled resistor. In a ...
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About Diode Junctions Guides
Description: High-voltage rectification presents unique challenges to the designer. Careful examination of the application requirements is essential when selecting the best solution for size, cost and reliability. ...
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Diode Thermal Analysis
Description: Controlling junction temperature is key to reliable semiconductor package design. High voltage diodes present unique junction temperature problems which must be addressed. ...
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FAQs > Diodes
Description: Diode FAQ ...
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Intelligent LED lighting control with the ultra-low-power MSP430F51x2 microcontrollers
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 ...
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Benchmarking MCU power consumption for ultra-low-power applications
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 ...
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Introducing advanced security to low-power applications with FRAM-based MCUs
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. ...
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Implementing Portable Humidity Sensor Systems
From: Silicon LabsDescription: In the emerging "Internet of Things" era, the traditional approach to humidity measurement using large-footprint legacy discrete circuits or bulky humidity sensing modules is no longer suitable to ...
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Determination of the Oscillation Safety Factor (OSF)
Description: To ensure a reliable operation of a crystal oscillator circuit, the oscillation safety factor (OSF) is worth to take a closer look at. The oscillation safety factor (OSF) shows the feedback gain ...
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ARM® Processors Selection Guide
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 ...
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USB Audio Simplified
From: Silicon LabsDescription: The rapid expansion of the USB standard in consumer electronics products has extended the use of USB connectivity to propagate and control digital audio. However, streaming audio over USB is a complex ...
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How Can I Extend My Application's Battery Life without Sacrificing Performance?
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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How Can I Reduce the Power Consumed by My Liquid Crystal Display?
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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How to Maximize the Amount of Time in Sleep Mode
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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Using DMA for Data Transfers without CPU Intervention Can Reduce Power and Extend System Battery Life
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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DC/DC CONVERTER Terminology and Basic Test Conditions
From: GAIA ConverterDescription: DC/DC converters are complex electronic subassemblies that can easily have over 50 parameters specified on a datasheet. Accuracy testing is important not only at design stage but also at production ...
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Developing an advanced, predictive battery health monitoring solution with a low-cost microcontroller solution
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. ...
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Multicore Programming Guide
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 ...
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Smart thermostats are a cool addition to the connected home
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 ...
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Accelerating motor control design for functional safety
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 ...
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Fiber versus Copper Links:
Description: Industrial environments are particularly challenging for data communications network designs for a variety of reasons. Typically rife with electromagnetic interference (EMI), unless every precaution ...
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Accuracy Considerations for MCU-Based Temperature Sensors
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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Building an IP Surveillance Camera
Description: Current market trends in video surveillance present a number of challenges to be addressed, including the move from analog to digital cameras, conversion to highdefinition (HD) video, adoption of wide ...
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Error Correction Code in SoC FPGA-Based
Description: This paper examines the potential sources and implications of soft errors and a method implemented by Altera Corporation and Micron Technology to make embedded systems more resilient to these types of ...
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Extending Silicon Convergence with Technology Innovations at 20 nm
Description: Altera's technology innovations in 20-nm devices will move customers' designs up the silicon convergence continuum by providing them the ultimate systemintegration platform to achieve unprecedented ...
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Reducing Total System Cost with
Description: When building systems for high-volume applications, it is very important to keep costs in check. There are several dimensions that affect total cost of ownership beyond the price per part. These ...
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Developing a multi-channel wireless inductive charger
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 ...
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Bringing Intelligence to LED Lighting Applications
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 ...
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Implementing Arc Detection in Solar Applications: Achieving Compliance with the new UL 1699B Standard
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 ...
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Implementing Energy Harvesting in Embedded System Designs
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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TMS320xF24xx to C2000™ Piccolo™ TMS320F280xx Microcontroller Migration Overview
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 ...
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Next-Generation IDE: Maximizing IP Reuse
From: Atmel CorporationDescription: 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 ...
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Implementing peak current mode control of a switch-mode power supply with a single microcontroller
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 ...
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Implementing Next-Generation Passive Optical Network Designs with FPGAs
Description: Passive optical network (PON) technology is emerging as the key access technology, as it has a scalable and cost-effective architecture to satisfy the ever-growing bandwidth requirements generated by ...
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Microcontrollers for the drive train in hybrid and electric vehicles
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 ...
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Transferring High-Speed Data over Long Distances with Combined FPGA and Multichannel Optical Modules
Description: The ever-increasing quantity of data moving around the datacenter and over the Internet is straining the infrastructure as it struggles to keep up. Core functions such as the storage subsystems, the ...
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Gesture recognition: Enabling natural interactions with electronics
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 ...
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Paving the path for wireless capacity expansion
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 ...
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Session Border Controller Selection
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 ...
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Error Correction Code in SoC FPGA-Based Memory Systems
Description: This paper examines the potential sources and implications of soft errors and a method implemented by Altera Corporation and Micron Technology to make embedded systems more resilient to these types of ...
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Reducing Total System Cost with Low-Power 28-nm FPGAs
Description: When building systems for high-volume applications, it is very important to keep costs in check. There are several dimensions that affect total cost of ownership beyond the price per part. These ...
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Transferring High-Speed Data over Long Distances w/ Combined FPGA and Multichanel Optical Modules
Description: Today's copper-based high-speed serial interfaces can deliver data at, multi-gigabit rates. Data transfer rates exceeding 100 Gbps are possible by using multiple lanes in parallel, but are limited in ...
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Implement High-Performance Floating-Point Processing on FPGAs
Description: Floating-point processing utilizes a format defined in IEEE 754, and is supported by microprocessor architectures. However, the IEEE 754 format is inefficient to implement in hardware, and ...
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Improving perceptual video quality: Skin-tone macroblock detection
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 ...
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Ultra-low-power pioneers: TI slashes total MCU power by 50 percent with new "Wolverine" MCU platform
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 ...
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Designing Polyphase DPD Solutions with 28-nm FPGAs
Description: Learn how to design an efficient polyphase and non-polyphase DPD feed- forward path solution with 28-nm FPGAs, especially Arria® V devices ...
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Design Considerations for a Natural User Interface (NUI)
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 ...
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Embedded software development is a multi-dimensional effort
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 ...
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MityDSP®-L138F Software Defined Radio Using uPP Data Transfer
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 ...
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Recon Instruments revolutionizes ski experiences with MOD Live optics and sensors kit for snow goggles, using complete TI solution - embedded processing, wireless connectivity, analog and power management
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 ...
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A Guide to Voltage Translation With TXB-Type Translators
Description: Modern trends are driving the need for lower supply voltages across many system-level designs. As most processor voltage levels continue to decrease in the interest of achieving the lowest possible ...
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Guide to Voltage Translation With TXS-Type Translators
Description: Modern trends are driving the need for lower supply voltages across many system-level designs. As most processor voltage levels continue to decrease in the interest of achieving the lowest possible ...
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Reading and Understanding an ESD Protection Datasheet
Description: System engineers must choose all components for their designs carefully. Picking the right ESD protection elements can be challenging as the matter of protecting devices on the PCB against ESD stress ...
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TPD12S015 PCB Layout Guidelines
Description: The TPD12S015 is a multifunction ESD protection device targeting portable HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) applications. This application note focuses on layout guidelines for using the ...
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EtherCAT® on Sitara™ AM335x ARM® Cortex™-A8 Microprocessors
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 ...
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Implement FPGA Design with the OpenCL Standard
Description: Get higher performance, lower power, and faster time to market for your applications when you use the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) standard on an FPGA. Read the white paper to find out more about ...
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Voltage Clamps Made Easy
Description: This document presents designers with several methods of voltage clamping cascaded FET's with common gates. ...
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Creating cloud base stations with TI's KeyStone multicore architecture
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 ...
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Network coprocessors are altering the makeup of gateway systems
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) ...
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How to Design Power Efficient Smart Gas and Water Utility Meters
From: Silicon LabsDescription: 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 ...
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System-Level Debugging and Monitoring of FPGA Designs
Description: For the purposes of this paper, today's FPGA designs can be divided into two different categories: those with embedded soft-core processors and those without. This division is useful when examining ...
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Estimating Power Consumption on the TMS320C5504/C5505/C5514/C5515 and TMS320C5532/C5533/C5534/C5535 DSPs
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 ...
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Migrating from TMS320C5515/05 to TMS320C5535/34/33/32
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 ...
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Using the TMS320C5535/34/33/32 Bootloader
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 ...
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Current Sensing Circuit Concepts and Fundamentals
Description: This application note focuses on the concepts and fundamentals of current sensing circuits. It introduces current sensing resistors, current sensing techniques and describes three typical high-side ...
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Grid-Connected Solar Microinverter Reference Design
Description: Due to global environmental concerns, photovoltaic (PV) systems (i.e., solar panels) are becoming more common as a renewable energy source. The main drawbacks of PV energy are the high cost of ...
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Introduction to the BodyCom Technology
Description: The BodyCom system is a new short-range wireless connectivity technology that uses the capability of the human body to transport a few signals that provide intuitive, simple, and safe communication ...
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Ni-MH Battery Charger Application Library
Description: The basic charger has a single power source in a buck converter configuration with current feedback. To charge both batteries, it switches between the batteries every second. When a battery is ...
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Offline UPS Reference Design Using the dsPIC® DSC
Description: An Uninterruptible Power Supply, or UPS, is an electronic device that provides an alternative electric power supply to connected electronic equipment when the primary power source is not available. ...
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PIC12LF1840T48A Microcontroller
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 ...