Technical Articles
Texas Instruments has published these technical articles:
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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It has been over a decade since the term Internet of Things (IoT) was first coined. Making its way to the center of the stage, it has now become mainstream. All of a sudden, leading companies are...
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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Wi-Fi® is the most ubiquitous wireless connectivity technology today. After becoming a standard feature in all laptops, smartphones and tablets, Wi-Fi is being added to simpler products like home...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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Get an overview of the 66AK2L06 system-on-chip for high-speed data acquisition and transmission markets including avionics and defense, medical imaging, test and measurement and other industrial...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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Real-time control systems require fast and efficient processing, with latency kept to a minimum in order to maintain stability and boost overall performance. In addition, the increasing sophistication...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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This application report provides real-world measurement results showing the benefit of antenna diversity. The CC1200 radio transceiver is used as an example in this design note, but the results are...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Sensor Chips)
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Capacitive sensing is becoming a popular technology to replace optical detection methods and mechanical designs for applications like proximity/gesture detection, material analysis, and liquid level...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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This reference design is an example of using the SimpleLink™ Bluetooth low energy CC2540Thigh temperature range wireless microcontroller in lighting applications. The board includes RGBW LEDs...
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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A Bluetooth Smart reference design for long-range applications. Use the CC2590 range extender to increase output power and improve sensitivity and thus achieve much longer range....
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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There are several dimensions to the scalability of general-purpose microcontrollers (MCUs). In addition to the standard peripherals required, a product family will typically offer developers a range...
(Sensor Chips)
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Various methods have been used to determine the level height in liquid tanks or containers. Recently, capacitive sensing has gained popularity due to the accuracy and resolution of the measurements as...
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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Receiver system designers are seeing a change from the widely adopted heterodyne architecture to a direct RF-sampling approach. In the traditional receiver, the designer selects the analog-to-digital...
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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This application report provides the necessary information in order to use the voltage sensor of the CC112x and CC120x family. The voltage sensor can be used to monitor the supply and battery voltage...
(Data Conversion)
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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...
(Data Conversion)
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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...
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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More consumers are streaming music than ever before - from their smartphones, laptops, tablet computers and other devices to a variety of wirelessly connected audio devices, like portable speakers,...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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A typical industrial system requires control, application and connectivity capabilities. The control subsystem directly manages motor operation and feedback, the application directs the overall...
(Data Conversion)
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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...
(Data Conversion)
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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...
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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This application note describes the implementation and integration of energy metering into a TI ZigBee Stack (Z-Stack™) using the CC2538 platform. The CC2538 is a SmartRF ZigBee system-on-chip...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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....
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Amplifier and Linear Devices)
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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...
(Amplifier and Linear Devices)
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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....
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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A white paper about leveraging TI's Sitara™ processors programmable real-time unit in order to ensure real-time predictability....
(Logic)
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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...
(IC Interface Devices)
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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...
(Amplifier and Linear Devices)
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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...
(Sensor Chips)
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Today, the jitter specification, TJ, is used in more and more systems, at the same time the jitter requirements get lower and lower. Clock generators or jitter cleaners like the CDCM6208 meet those...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Amplifier and Linear Devices)
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This is an introduction to ultrasonic flow sensing and describes a demonstration setup to measure velocity of flow in a pipe using an ultrasonic water flow-meter sensor, the TDC1000 ultrasonic...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Sensor Chips)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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....
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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....
(Sensor Chips)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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Learn how to optimize Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, with TI's integrated 66AK2L06 SoC. The FPGA alternative is a KeyStone-based device with a JESD204B interface and integrated DFE....
(Sensor Chips)
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Thermal management in modern electronics, whether the newest smart phone or the largest industrial machine, has become vitally important as two industry trends take hold. The first is the desire for...
(Amplifier and Linear Devices)
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This application report describes PHYTER™ design and layout guidelines and with this report, in conjunction with the product datasheets, and reference designs, will help ensure issue-free system...
(Sensor Chips)
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Ratiometricity is a common approach for measuring analog-sensor signals for the purpose of conditioning and standardizing the signal for proper operation with an industrial control system. In the...
(Data Conversion)
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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)...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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AM437 device overview and data....
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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,...
(Programmable Logic Devices)
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It is apparent that the need for advanced ADAS systems in every car around the world is becoming important to making driving easier. TI has been investing in ADAS technology for years. TI's SoC, the...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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,...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Data Conversion)
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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...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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....
(IC Interface Devices)
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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)...
(Data Conversion)
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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...
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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This application note describes the pairing of the cost-effective SimpleLink ZigBee CC2530 wireless MCU with the SimpleLink CC2592 range extender to improve the receiver sensitivity and increase the...
(Microprocessors and Microcontrollers)
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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...
(Logic)
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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,...
(Power and Power Management IC)
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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...
(RF, Microwave, and Wireless Components)
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In this paper we review the predominant wireless connectivity technologies in the market, discuss their key technical concepts and engineering tradeoffs and provide guidelines for selection of the...