Battery manufacturers want to achieve the highest possible density of energy. This applies especially to electric or hybrid vehicles (EV/HEV) where achieving the maximum drive range attracts customers. With increasing energy density, the importance of battery management and monitoring is essential to avoid any kind of hazards related to overvoltage or overtemperature.

This application report explains the difference between noise and PSRR of an LDO. It also explains the different ways noise is specified in LDO datasheets and which specification should be used in the application. Finally it explains how LDO noise is reduced.

Radar technology has evolved in last decades from military applications such as missile control, ground surveillance, air traffic control to numerous automotive and industrial applications such as adaptive cruise control, park assist, autonomous parking, motion and presence detection, level sensing, people counting and more. In order for a radar sensor to perform flawlessly in these applications it is critical to ensure that the radome or housing...

The goal of this applications brief is to inform and educate partners and customers on theadvancements that Texas Instruments’ has made in millimeter wave (mmWave) Radar sensing

At embedded world 2023, Artem Aginskiy, General Manager at Texas instruments talks to Electronic Specifier's Editor, Mick Elliott, about the introduction of Texas Instruments new family of vision processors.

Texas Instruments (TI) has debuted the industry’s first stand-alone active electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter integrated circuits (ICs), enabling engineers to implement smaller, lighter EMI filters, to enhance system functionality at reduced system cost while simultaneously meeting EMI regulatory standards.

Radar-based sensor ICs are becoming a popular sensing technology due to their long-range capabilities, high-motion sensitivity, and privacy capabilities. With their high accuracy, radar sensors are widely used in automotive and industrial markets for applications such as blind spot detection, collision detection, people presence and motion detection. In recent years, 60-GHz and 77-GHz radar sensors have replaced 24-GHz radar sensors – deliv...

At embedded world 2023, Vinay Agarwal, Vice President, General Manager MSP Microcontrollers at Texas instruments talks to Electronic Specifier's Editor, Mick Elliott, about new products and new microcontrollers at Texas Instruments.

At embedded world 2023, on the Digi-Key booth, Paige West speaks with Brian Berner, Platform Marketing for Embedded Processors at Texas Instruments about new devices for vision processing.

With electric vehicles (EVs) in high-demand, manufacturers are looking for ways to improve their performance in safe and cost-effective ways.

At embedded world 2023, Texas Instruments unlocked scalable Edge AI performance in smart camera applications with a new vision processor family and made embedded systems more affordable with a new Arm Cortex-M0+ MCU portfolio.

The HDC302x is an integrated capacitive based relative humidity (RH) and temperature sensor. It provides high accuracy measurements over a wide supply range (1.62 V – 5.5 V), along with ultra-low power consumption in a compact 2.5-mm × 2.5-mm package. Both the temperature and humidity sensors are 100% tested and trimmed on a production setup that is NIST traceable and verified with equipment that is calibrated to ISO/IEC 17025 standar...

The DRV2901 is a high performance lens cleaner transducer driver. This system only requires a simple passive LC demodulation filter to deliver high-quality, high-efficiency amplification with proven EMI compliance. This device requires two power supplies, at 12 V for GVDD and VDD, and 12 V to 48 V for PVDD. The DRV2901 does not require power-up sequencing due to internal power-on reset.

A key to design success is often to reduce the size of the power supply. Space is limited. There is constant pressure to do more with less. More broadly, the miniaturization of power supplies has and will continue to enable new markets and applications.

With the increasing number of building and home owners looking to retrofit smart locks (or electronic locks) to their building or home, wireless battery powered smart locks are becoming increasingly popular in today’s market.  In a smart lock application, the high current motor and radio often drains the battery quickly, causing battery life to suffer.  Replacing multiple batteries can be a time consuming and costly issue, and thu...

Electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) offer higher fuel-efficiency and lower emissions compared to gasoline or diesel vehicles. To control energy flow and optimize efficiency in HEV/EV subsystems such as onboard chargers (OBC), traction inverters, DC/DC converters, and battery management systems (BMS), accurate current measurements at high common-mode voltages are essential.

The TMAG5170 is a high-precision linear 3D Hall-effect sensor designed for a wide range of industrial and personal electronics applications. The high level of integration offers flexibility and accuracy in a variety of position sensing systems. This device features 3 independent Hall sensors at X, Y, and Z axes.

As electronic systems become increasingly dense and interconnected, reducing the effects of electromagnetic interference (EMI) becomes an increasingly critical system design consideration.

The ULC1001 is a configurable PWM modulator with current and voltage sensing capabilities specifically for piezo based lens cleaning systems. An on-chip, low-latency DSP supports Texas Instruments’ proprietary algorithms designed for lens cleaning. The ULC1001 and DRV29xx work together to create an Ultrasonic Lens Cleaning system. The ULC1001 device is available in a 32-pin QFN-HR package for a compact PCB footprint.

The TPSI2140-Q1 is an isolated solid state relay designed for high voltage automotive and industrial applications. The TPSI2140-Q1 uses TI's high reliability capacitive isolation technology in combination with internal back-to-back MOSFETs to form a completely integrated solution requiring no secondary side power supply. The entire primary side of the device requires only 9 mA of input current, enabling the user to drive both the VDD and EN pins ...