This document is intended as a valuable quick guide for often used system-level design formulae and real-time control concepts in order to help facilitate real-time control application design. We hope you find this collection of material useful.

Enabled by semiconductor technology, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) bidirectional charging can provide battery power to reinforce electric grids during peak demand and power your home when electricity is expensive or out.

The SK-AM69 Starter Kit/Evaluation Module (EVM) is based on the AM69x AI vision processor which includes an image signal processor (ISP) supporting up to 1440MP/s, 32 tera-operations-per-second (TOPS) AI accelerator, eight 64-bit Arm-Cortex A72 microprocessor, and H.264/H.265 video encode/decode. The SK-AM69x is an ideal choice formachine vision, traffic monitoring, retail automation, and factory automation.

As rising demands are pushing electric grids to their limits, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) bidirectional charging can help smooth out peak capacity. Electric vehicles (EVs) may provide a powerful jolt to supply sustainable power to our electric grids.

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced programmable logic devices (PLDs) that empower engineers to streamline their logic designs for any application.

C2000 real-time MCUs are a portfolio of high-performance microcontrollers that are purpose-built to control power electronics and provide advanced digital signal processing for industrial and automotive applications.

This presentation will examine design challenges related to 48 V batteries in hybrid and electric vehicle (xEV) applications, including an in-depth look at voltage and current sensing accuracy, voltage and current synchronization, hotplug reliability, cell balancing and thermal management.  

Primary-side regulation (PSR) regulation eliminates the need for optocoupler-based feedback by sensing the voltage across the primary or auxiliary winding, an approach that reduces system costs and enhances reliability. Flyback controllers featuring integrated advanced feedback circuitry specifically designed for primary-side sensing are broadly available, but it is also possible to achieve PSR-type feedback using standard boost controllers. Desp...

Technology availability, market and environmental regulations, and infrastructure build out are aligning to turn a long-forecasted future of full-electric vehicles (EVs) into reality. According to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2020, sales of EVs, including plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), reached a global peak of 2.1 million in 2019, increasing the total number of such vehicles on the road to 7.2 mil...

Join TI experts in hearing how FPD-Link, Ethernet, Bluetooth and other connectivity technologies are driving vehicle communication forward, whether it's addressing the increasing number of electronic control units (ECUs) to more quickly receive, interpret and transmit data, implementing ADAS features and benefits, easing car access through fobs and phones, or supporting the transition from domain to zonal architecture.

The TDA4VH-Q1 TDA4AH-Q1 TDA4VP-Q1 TDA4AP-Q1 processor family is based on the evolutionary Jacinto™ 7 architecture, targeted at ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle (AV) applications and built on extensive market knowledge accumulated over a decade of TI’s leadership in the ADAS processor market. 

The TPS6594-Q1 device provides four flexible multi-phase configurable BUCK regulators with 3.5 A output current per phase, and one additional BUCK regulator with 2 A output current. All of the BUCK regulators can be synchronized to an internal 2.2-MHz or 4.4-MHz or an external 1-MHz, 2-MHz, or 4-MHz clock signal.

This comprehensive, hands-on, laboratory based analog power supply design workshop provides an in-depth look at the design of modern, stable and robust switch mode power supplies. Covering general principles of stable power supply design from DC/DC and PoL to bias supplies and isolated off-lines, this workshop is aimed at design engineers who need to design and/or troubleshoot modern high performance power supplies. 

Code Composer Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for TI's microcontrollers and processors. It comprises a suite of tools used to develop and debug embedded applications. Code Composer Studio is available for download across Windows, Linux and macOS desktops. It can also be used in the cloud by visiting the TI Developer Zone.

The AM64B starter kit (SK) is a low-cost stand-alone test and development platform based on the Sitara™ AM6442 processor that is ideal for accelerating the prototype phase of your next design. The kit includes wired (Ethernet) and wireless (2.4GHz and 5GHz) connectivity, three expansion headers, multiple boot options and flexible debug.

Accelerate your development with our broad selection of MSPM0 subsystems, integrating our application building blocks to simplify your software efforts. You can easily adapt each subsystem to meet your specific end-equipment needs using our step-by-step instructions, design insights, software, and suggestions for feature enhancements.

Bring smart cameras, robots and intelligent machines to life with the TDA4VM processor starter kit. With a fast setup process and an assortment of foundational demos and tutorials, you can start prototyping a vision-based application in less than an hour. 

Vehicles are evolving to include more advanced features enhancing safety, comfort and convenience. More features require more complex electronics, which emphasize the importance of power efficiency. Power efficiency enables longer driving ranges and lowers operational costs, resulting in semiconductor manufacturers lowering the typical supply voltage of an electrical component such as a microcontroller (MCU) from 5V to 3.3V.

The biggest disruption in the automotive industry in the past decade is the move toward software-defined vehicles. Traditional vehicle designs had hardware-based subsystems dedicated to specific functions such as the powertrain or infotainment.

Here, you’ll find a selection of the latest news, products, and articles from Texas Instruments focused on Robotics.