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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 ...
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Recommended Usage of Microchip Serial RTCC Devices
Description: Many embedded systems require some form of accurate timekeeping. There are a growing number of applications that require an external Real-Time Clock/ Calendar (RTCC) and higher integration of external ...
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Stepper Motor Control with dsPIC® DSCs
Description: This application note describes how to drive a stepper motor with a dsPIC33F motor control family DSC. The eight PWM channels (six pins from the PWM1 module and two pins from the PWM2 module) are used ...
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Temperature Compensation of a Tuning Fork Crystal Based on MCP79410
Description: An increasing number of applications that involve time measurement are requiring a Real-Time Clock device. The MCP79410 is a feature-rich RTCC that incorporates EEPROM, SRAM, unique ID and time-stamp. ...
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Using a Hardware Module to Interface
Description: The 25XXX series serial EEPROMs from Microchip Technology support a half-duplex protocol that functions on a master-slave paradigm that is ideally suited to data stream applications. The bus is ...
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Using PIC32 MCUs to Develop GSM/GPRS/GPS Solutions
Description: Technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same ability are referred to as Machine-to-Machine (M2M). M2M uses a device to capture an event, which ...
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Using PIC32 MCUs to Develop Low-Cost Controllerless (LCC) Graphics Solutions
Description: As the demand for Graphical Embedded Applications becomes more popular, so does the need for developing cost effective solutions. Many companies today offer solutions involving an additional internal ...
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Using Single Supply Operational Amplifiers in Embedded Systems
Description: Beyond the primitive transistor, the operational amplifier (op amp) is the most basic building block for analog applications. Fundamental functions such as gain, load isolation, signal inversion, ...
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Video Playback and Streaming Solutions Using the PIC® MCU
Description: The required bandwidth for data access from off-chip components can be a bottleneck in the system performance for microcontroller (MCU) video applications. This restriction translates into limiting ...
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Tips and Techniques for 28-nm Design Optimization
Description: Timing closure is of critical importance in high-speed FPGA designs. This white paper focuses on the challenges that affect timing closure and discusses how simple HDL changes can help resolve timing ...
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Migrating From MSP430F2xx to MSP430FR5xx Family
Description: This application report enables easy migration from MSP430F2xx Flash-based MCUs to the MSP430FR57xx family FRAM-based MCU. It covers programming, system, and peripheral considerations when migrating ...
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Keep Hybrid Powertrain Drives Noise-Free by Rejecting dV/dt Noise with Isolated-Gate Drivers
Description: High common-mode noise is a significant problem that automotive system designers must overcome when designing a practical and reliable powertrain drive system. Common-mode noise (also known as dV/dt ...
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User-Customizable ARM-Based SoC FPGAs for Next-Generation Embedded Systems
Description: Today's embedded system developers face unprecedented challenges in their efforts to rapidly deliver competitive products to market. Until recently, most system implementation options have been ...
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ARM® Cortex™-A8-based DM3730 DaVinci™ digital media processor powers Kopin's Golden-i®, a monocular, head-mounted device for hands-free communication and control
Description: Golden-i headsets are cutting edge devices activated by hands-free natural speech recognition and user gestures to enable fi eld-based medical, public safety, industrial and construction professionals ...
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Low Power Microcontrollers for Temperature, Humidity & Carbon Monoxide Instrumentation
Description: Using Low Cost Microcontrollers for Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, and Humidity Measurement, Display, and Control. In today's energy consumption and safety-conscious world, collecting and using ...
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Low-power DSP uses in connected audio applications
Description: his white paper addresses the challenge to add more features in peripheral device systems to improve sound and voice quality. Peripheral audio devices are moving towards adding more complex features ...
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Considerations for PCB Layout and Impedance Matching Design in Optical
Description: The optical module offers an effective high-speed solution for a growing telecom market. Data rates range from 155 Mbps to 6 Gbps and even up to 10 Gbps. Transmitter optical sub-assemblies (TOSAs) and ...
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Ethernet Clock Generation
Description: This application report is a guide for using Texas Instruments CDCM6100x in an Ethernet LAN and WAN application as a clock distributor and clock synthesizer along with measured jitter performance ...
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Interfacing high-voltage applications to low-power controllers
Description: This article explains the functional principle of a DIS and its configuration in a typical industrial interface design. ...
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RS-422 and RS-485 Standards Overview and System Configurations
Description: ANSI TIA/EIA-422 and TIA/EIA-485 standards, commonly known as RS-422 and RS-485, respectively, specify balanced data-transmission schemes for transmitting data over long distances in noisy ...
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Signaling Rate vs. Distance for Differential Buffers
Description: This report is intended to give some estimate of the maximum transmission distances and data rates of the SN65LVDS100 and SN65LVCP4xx series devices. It provides a brief overview of the effect of ...
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SMBus Compatibility with an I2C Device
Description: An I2C device usually can be controlled by an SMBus host, but there are hardware and software differences with which a designer must deal. This paper offers solutions for this issue. ...
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An Introduction to the Stellaris® LM4F Family of Microcontrollers
Description: Stellaris® microcontrollers (MCUs) were the first MCU on the market to be based on the ARM® Cortex™-M core, an architecture that has quickly become a top choice for many developers ...
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AN-00310 - Encoder and Decoder Comparison
From: Linx TechnologiesDescription: Encoders and decoders are an ideal way of sending on / off data, such as button presses, to a remote location. When a line on the encoder is taken high, it will create a data stream that is sent to ...
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Hercules™ Microcontrollers: Real-time MCUs for safety-critical products
Description: Electronics continue to play a major role in products where functional safety is the most important consideration. Ensuring that products meet the stringent functional safety requirements of standards ...
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Designing Intuitive Gesture-Based Human Interface Systems
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Gestures represent a fundamental and universal form of nonverbal communication. Whether you are pointing to select an object out of a group, waving to say hello or curling your fingers to beckon ...
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Altera's FPGA Floating-point DSP Design Flow
Description: FPGAs are increasingly used as parallel processing engines for demanding digital signal processing applications. Benchmark results show that on highly parallelizable workloads, FPGAs can achieve ...
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High Reliability Guide
Description: The Texas Instruments (TI) High Reliability (HiRel) Guide features the five segments that are capable of increasing system-level reliability in applications subjected to unusually demanding and harsh ...
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Standard Linear Guide
Description: TI's Standard Linear guide showcases a wide range of standard analog products with features such as small packaging, performance and cost-savings, all designed to satisfy an extensive range of ...
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Enhancing Power Supply Rejection Ratio for Low-Jitter Clocks
From: Silicon LabsDescription: In jitter-sensitive applications, power supply noise sensitivities increase design complexity and reduce functional design margin. This in-depth Silicon Labs white paper examines the primary sources ...
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Selecting the Optimal Battery for your Embedded Application
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Engineers have many options when selecting the optimal battery to support and maximize the service life of their applications. As batteries become more sophisticated in design and function, you must ...
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The Energy Harvesting Tipping Point for Wireless Sensor Applications
From: Silicon LabsDescription: The ability to power wireless sensor nodes from harvested energy sources allows embedded designers to offer self-sustaining systems with a significantly reduced cost of ownership for the end-user as ...
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The Heartbeat behind Portable Medical Devices: Ultra-Low-Power Mixed-Signal Microcontrollers
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Embedded developers and product managers are under continuous pressure to push the envelope of cost, size, power consumption and performance in their next portable medical device designs. In order to ...
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Touch-Free Lavatory Appliance Design Considerations
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Touchless lavatory applications such as toilet flushers, automatic faucets, soap dispensers and towel dispensers are becoming increasingly common. Key design issues to consider include: flushers and ...
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Touchless Gesturing Brings New Innovation to Electronic Product Designs
From: Silicon LabsDescription: This Silicon Labs in-depth white paper examines how through advancements in human interface (HI) technology and design, infrared proximity sensors are poised to usher in the next user interface ...
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USB Connectivity in a Complex World
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Although universal serial bus (USB) connectivity has become a key requirement for most embedded applications, in most cases, it is just one of many design requirements for a typical application. For ...
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USB Design Considerations
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Designing USB communications into an application enables a system to communicate with a variety of USB host devices and provides a convenient power option through the USB connection. Today's printers, ...
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OpenCV on TI's DSP+ARM® platforms: Mitigating the challenges of porting OpenCV to embedded platforms
Description: In today's advancing market, the growing performance and decreasing price of embedded processors are opening many doors for developers to design highly sophisticated solutions for different end ...
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Interfacing high-voltage applications to low-power controllers
Description: This article explains the functional principle of a DIS and its configuration in a typical industrial interface design. ...
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KeyStone Multicore SoC tool suite: one platform for all needs
Description: Historically, a signifi cant challenge in implementing and deploying multicore System-on-Chip (SoC) devices has been the availability of proper tools to program and debug these platforms. For ...
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Little Logic Guide
Description: Little Logic devices from TIare the pieces that help complete the design puzzle. Their extremely small size gives designers the ability to greatly simplify design routing and maximize ASIC design ...
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Low-Power FRAM Microcontrollers and Their Applications
Description: Texas Instruments recently announced a new microcontroller family that implements FRAM as non-volatile memory instead of Flash, today's most common programmable, non-volatile memory technology. The ...
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The role of multicore in the evolution of communications
Description: In the last decade we have experienced huge changes in the way we communicate. We have moved from fixed and wired plain old telephone service (POTS) to briefcase-sized mobile phones, and more recently ...
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Silicon Carbide Schottky Barrier Diodes - Taking Efficiency to the Next Level for PFC and Other Applications
Description: are Schottky barrier diodes. Not only do SBDs have the lowest reverse recovery time (trr) compared to the various types of fast recovery (fast recovery epitaxial), ultrafast recovery and super-fast ...
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Embedded technologies are helping the video security industry 'go green'
Description: Going green isn't just a trend. It's a necessity today because of obvious environmental reasons. Most industries have started taking a green approach, but semiconductor manufacturers have taken this ...
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Intelligent I/O processing for DSP+ARM® SoCs
Description: This white paper discusses results of input/ output (I/O) processing on the general-purpose processor (GPP) for a DSP-centric programming model using a system-on-chip (SoC) containing both digital ...
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Power management in embedded systems with dual OSes
Description: In today's system-on-chip (SoC) platforms containing multiple heterogenous processors, the system architect needs to know how to deal with power management facilities provided with different operating ...
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Performance without Compromise: Implementing Real-time Control and Communications with a dual-subsystem microcontroller
Description: With the growing importance of energy efficiency and smart grid technology, there is an increasing need for reliable silicon that supports real-time control with an interface capable of connecting to ...
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Optimize Motor Control Designs with an Integrated FPGA Design Flow
Description: FPGA performance and flexibility are ideal for implementing DSP-intensive motor control algorithms. Read about an optimized tool flow that reduces development time and provides an adaptable model for ...
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Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU): Extending Functionality of Existing SoCs
Description: As the complexity of applications implemented on SoC devices continues to increase, higher performance and many different connectivity options are required. TI continues to extend the capabilities of ...
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Software and hardware design challenges due to the dynamic raw NAND market
Description: This white paper will highlight the difficulties in developing and maintaining fi rmware (bootloaders), middleware (OS/application drivers) and hardware IPs for interfacing with raw NAND devices. ...
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The Stellaris® Graphics Library Makes Short Order of Assembling a Dynamic HMI
Description: A well-designed human machine interface (HMI) can be a major selling point for an embedded electronic system. From medical instruments and consumer devices to industrial controls, a nice display with ...
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Selection Guide: TI Processors based on ARM® Technology
Description: Realizing the need for low-power, cost-effective solutions, TI is committed to strengthening its embedded processing portfolio with a range of ARM-based solutions meeting the power, performance and ...
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Customizable System Interfaces Add Value to Embedded Processors (.pdf)
Description: Standard interfaces integrated into an embedded processor helps ease a system designer's work by providing interoperability with other products and reducing design cost and cycle time. But they can ...
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High Temperature Guide (.pdf)
Description: The High Temperature Guide offers an overview of TI's wide range of semiconductors for use outside standard temperature ranges. These components form a complete signal chain roadmap for electronics ...
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Developing Functional Safety Systems with TÜV-Qualified FPGAs (.pdf)
Description: This white paper discusses how market trends, the need for increased productivity, and new legislation have accelerated the use of safety systems in industrial machinery. This TÜV-qualified FPGA ...
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Lowering the Total Cost of Ownership in Industrial Applications (.pdf)
Description: Approximately one-third of embedded designers surveyed on the adoption and use of FPGAs for embedded applications responded that they perceived FPGAs as too expensive to use in their designs. However, ...
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Methods of Controlling Multiple LED Strings with C2000™ Microcontrollers (MCUs) (.pdf)
Description: As more applications continue to integrate LED technology, developers find themselves facing the challenge of driving greater numbers of LEDs while lowering system cost and increasing power ...
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Bringing Efficient Communications to Real-Time Motor Control and Power Conversion Applications with TI's Viterbi Complex Math Unit (VCU) (.pdf)
Description: To take advantage of the growing opportunities in Smart Metering and other energy-control applications, developers need to be able to add communication links to existing systems in a cost effective ...
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What it Takes to do Efficient and Cost-Effective Real-Time Control with a Single Microcontroller: The C2000™ Advantage (.pdf)
Description: Performance, efficiency, flexibility and protection - these are the attributes paramount to power electronics technologies, such as motor control, digital power, renewable energies, lighting, and ...
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C2000™ MCU Motor Control Primer (.pdf)
Description: Digital motor control has been a challenging subject since the beginning of early implementations. Although digital control techniques and the availability of high-speed microcontrollers made life ...
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TI Delivers Flexible Power Line Communications Solutions (.pdf)
Description: Power line communications use existing power line infrastructures as a cost-effective alternative to wireless and other wired communications standards, introducing intelligent monitoring and control ...
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Maximizing the Power of ARM ® with DSP (.pdf)
Description: Texas Instruments' (TI) Integra™ DSP+ARM devices combine a digital signal processor (DSP) and an ARM® processor, enabling developers to create applications best suited for executing a ...
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Get to Work in 10 Minutes (.pdf)
Description: When developing a new systems design, evaluating and choosing the proper microcontroller (MCU) is a critical step. An evaluation kit needs to demonstrate how capable the MCU is at performing the tasks ...
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C6Accel DSP Software Development Tool (.pdf)
Description: Texas Instruments (TI) has a long history in offering optimized production-quality Digital Signal Processing (DSP) software in the form of signal-processing libraries and math libraries that have ...
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C6Run DSP Software Development Tool (.pdf)
Description: In 2005, Herb Sutter famously predicted that the free lunch of ever-increasing processing performance was over. Events since that time have confirmed his analysis. While transistor counts in ...
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LED Drivers for Automotive Applications (.pdf)
Description: The usage of lighting-emitting diodes (LEDs) in auto?motive applications is increasing for many of the same reasons that LED lighting is penetrating non-automotive sectors. LEDs are more efficient and ...
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Serial Wire Debug-Ideal for Microcontrollers (.pdf)
Description: Digital electronic equipment is becoming more sophisticated every day, so the programs running these processor-driven systems are becoming bigger and more intricate. Debugging these complex programs ...
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Is a Mixed-Signal ASIC the Right Choice (.pdf)
Description: If you have never been involved with developing an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), you may not be aware of all the advantages a custom ASIC can bring. Similarly, you may not fully ...
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Lightning: Physics & Effects (.pdf)
From: ASCO Power TechnologiesDescription: Lightning has been the subject of research for decades. The data from this research is available for all to use. A number of institutions have spent many years trying to understand this phenomena. ...
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5-Minute Guide (.pdf)
Description: This guide provides an overview on applications, block diagrams, URLs of relevance, suggested devices and packaging information to help with design issues. It is broken out into the following nine ...
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How to Select Little Logic (.pdf)
Description: TI Little Logic devices are logic-gate devices assembled in a small single-, dual-, or triple- gate package. Little Logic devices are widely used in portable equipment, such as mobile phones, MP3 ...
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HVAC Dual-AC Motor Control with Active PFC Implementation Using Piccolo™ MCUs (.pdf)
Description: The 32-bit C2000™ Piccolo™ microcontroller from TI provides a true single chip solution for multiple motor drives, including the front-end PFC. In this paper, implementation of controlling ...
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How to Design Capacitive Touch & Proximity Sensing Technology into Your Application (.pdf)
From: Silicon LabsDescription: What defines good human interface design, and how can system designers implement a smarter, friendlier and more intuitive solution? This in-depth Silicon Labs white paper examines these questions and ...
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Low Power Design Basics: How to Choose the Optimal Low Power MCU for Your Embedded System (.pdf)
From: Silicon LabsDescription: The challenge of identifying which MCUs are truly low power is rarely a simple task, requiring designers to navigate though the numerous (and often confusing) claims made by various semiconductor ...
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Using Low-Cost OTP Microcontrollers to Simplify Embedded Applications
From: Silicon LabsDescription: Developers are always looking for ways to reduce the cost of their embedded systems without compromising the availability of peripherals or system performance. This white paper explores the option of ...
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MSP430F5xx Ultra-low Power MCU User's Guide (.pdf)
Description: This manual describes the modules and peripherals of the MSP430x5xx family of devices. Each description presents the module or peripheral in a general sense. Not all features and functions of all ...
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Power Design for TMS3206743 using LDOs (.pdf)
Description: The reference design shows a power solution using LDOs. ...
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Power IC for Powering Xilinx® Spartan-6 Reference Design (.pdf)
Description: This reference design is for powering the Spartan 6 LX150 and features TI's Swift Intragrated FETS DC to DC converters. ...
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Power IC for Powering Xilinx® Virtex-6 FPGAs (.pdf)
Description: The Xilinx® Virtex-6 FPGA reference design is a Virtex 6 LX130 design using TPS40190 controller and TI NextFETs™ for best efficiency and performance. ...
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TMS320C6472 Processor Power Reference Design (.pdf)
Description: The is a 5-V and 12-V Input Modular Power Reference Design for the TMS320C6472. ...
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Embedded Processors Wiki
Description: This site has been established to assist developers using the many Embedded Processors from Texas Instruments to get started, help each other innovate, and foster the growth of general knowledge about ...
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MSP430 Value Line LaunchPad Development Kit (.pdf)
Description: As applications continue to advance, 8-bit microcontrollers are struggling to meet the growing demand for higher performance and ultra-low power to support evolving product designs. Texas Instruments ...
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Defense Guide (.pdf)
Description: TI's HiRel portfolio provides devices as enhanced products (EP) in plastic packages and full military-class ceramic (QML) packages with extended operating-temperature ranges. We offer an expanding ...
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Creating a ZigBee® Smart Energy Device with the MSP430F54xx and the CC2530-ZNP (ZigBee Pro Network Processor) (.pdf)
Description: This paper describes how to create a ZigBee Smart Energy Device using the MSP430F54xx as the host application processor to the CC2530-ZNP (ZigBee Pro Network Processor). The physical interface between ...
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Protecting Switching Power Supplies from Inrush Current
From: Ametherm, Inc.Description: This application note provides some design considerations for inrush current protection of the AC current applicable to Switching Power Supplies (SPS). The solution suggested in this application note ...
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Transformer Inrush Current - Use an NTC Thermistor
From: Ametherm, Inc.Description: A transformer draws inrush current that can exceed saturation current affecting the magnetic property of the core. This happens even if the transformer is on no load with its secondary open. The ...
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Enhanced Products Guide (.pdf)
Description: TI's Enhanced Products (EP) line offers design flexibility while still meeting HiRel and Medical standards for operating environments where high reliability and long service life are a requirement. ...
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Space Guide (.pdf)
Description: To support the demanding nature of space applications, TI HiRel has introduced MILPRF-38535 radiationtolerant products to our extensive qualified manufacturer listing (QML) Class V family. ...