Texas Instruments took home the gold medal in the recently completed 2022 Leap Awards. The LEAP Awards celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. Texas Instruments won in the Sensors and Switches category covering equipment feedback devices such as mechanical switches and photoelectric, proximity, reel, and hall-effect sensors. Submissions also […]
Feature-rich controllers tackle new applications
Controllers are central to motion control systems. They’re often referred to as the brains of the system, evaluating feedback from the environment and responding in accordance with a control program to complete an assigned task. Today’s controllers have more built-in functions, are more powerful, and are being used in diverse applications. We asked some of […]
TI launches the first DDR memory-termination linear regulator for space applications
Texas Instruments today introduced the industry’s first double-data-rate memory linear regulator for space applications. The TPS7H3301-SP is the only DDR regulator immune to single-event effects up to 65 megaelectron volts per centimeter squared, powering space-satellite payloads including single-board computers, solid-state recorders and other memory applications. Integrating two monolithic power field-effect transistors for source and sink…
Innovate in new and exciting optical sensing applications in industrial markets with award-winning DLP® technology
This webinar gives an overview of many new industrial applications enabled by award-winning DLP ® technology across industrial and factory automation applications. DLP technology is a high-value TI content in a given system and has strong pull-through impact for rest of the electronics – analog and embedded processors. DLP fundamentally is an advanced MEMS devices…
Tips on designing for the Internet of Things
Bimba, TI, and Opto22 are heavily involved in developing products with and for the Internet of Things. In this webinar you will hear stories from the trenches on how they have approached the IoT and what they have learned in the process. You will learn: What value the IoT may or may not bring to…
TI’s technology advances LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3
Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) announced that Sitara™ processors, along with TI connectivity and analog solutions, have been selected to power the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 robotics platform that…
Choosing the Right Sensors for Industrial Applications
Industrial sensing applications require special design considerations to address technical challenges. One of the main criteria that a user has to consider is the choice of technology used for the sensor. However, this is just the start. By watching this 1-hour webinar, you will gain a better understanding of the key factors necessary to make…
Kit Provides Sensors and Sensor Fusion Development Tools
Called a development ecosystem with sensor fusion technology, Texas Instruments’ Sensor Hub BoosterPack is a plug-in daughter card for its ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller (MCU). TivaWare software shipped with…
How low can you go with power?
Answering the question, “How low can you go with power?” Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) introduces the industry’s lowest power DC/DC step-down converter, which increases the amount of harvested energy an end application can use as much as 70 percent over alternative devices. The ultra-low power circuit enables battery-free power to applications, such as […]
TI’s new 28-V, 500-mA step-down converter provides highest efficiency at light loads
Texas Instruments Incorporated introduced a synchronous, 28-V, 500-mA step-down DC/DC converter that can operate at less than 5 uA during “sleep” mode. The new TPS62175 maintains high efficiency during light load operation, while supporting ultra-low power microcontrollers that operate in 12-V, 15-V and 24-V applications, such as industrial sensor, smart meter, medical and wireless power […]
TI introduces the high-power LED driver with multiple dimming control modes
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) introduced a six-channel LED driver with dynamic headroom control for high-power applications, which accurately and efficiently drives up to six strings of LEDs. The LM3463 is the industry’s first wide-input voltage LED driver with multiple dimming control modes that maximizes system efficiency and reduces complexity in LED area lighting applications, such…
Fully Integrated 1.8-V And 3.3-V, Seven-channel Relay Driver
The ULN2003LV is a fully integrated, seven-channel relay driver that can support low-voltage relays from as low as 1.8 V up to 5 V. It is a relay driver that replaces a handful of discrete components with a single device and lowers voltages for data relays and rails within telecommunications equipment. When using this integrated […]
First Fully Integrated Weigh Scale
Texas Instruments unveiled the industry’s first fully integrated analog front end for both weight and body composition measurement (BCM). The AFE4300 is an easy-to-use, precision, low-power front end solution, which allows engineers designing weigh scales that incorporate body composition meters, body impedance analyzers, and impedance measurement equipment to get their products to market faster than […]
Texas Instruments new ultra-low power 16-bit RISC mixed signal processors in stock at Newark element14
MSP430FR57 family consists of multiple devices featuring embedded FRAM nonvolatile memory, ultra-low power CPU and different peripherals targeted for specific applications. CHICAGO—Newark element14, the leading distributor of electronic components and engineering solutions in the Americas and a business of Premier Farnell (LSE:pfl), today announced the availability of TI’s new MSP430FR57 family, which leverages its leadership…
EtherCAT Now on TI Processors
Texas Instruments recently announced that it licenses Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT®) for its ARM®- and DSP+ARM-based embedded processors. It will be featured in the upcoming Sitara™ ARM microprocessors (MPUs) planned for the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2011 and in the C6-Integra™ DSP+ARM processors beginning in 2012. This system-on-chip, based on TI’s…