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TI collaborates with University of Texas at Dallas to improve wafer production efficiency – applying big data approaches to test data
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There’s a new field in engineering – it’s called adaptive test. This new field has multiple sub-areas with innovation potential, and one of these areas – which TI has partnered with University of Texas at Dallas researchers to study -- is test-cost reduction. It involves developing...
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May 9, 2013
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TI India Educators Conference: fierce competition, incredible innovations, and the hunt for a $10,000 prize
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Vaishnavi Govindarajan and Priyanka PR, fourth-year engineering students of M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology in Bangalore, were busy putting the final touches on "eLock-Holmes," a device used to detect a person's emotions. A wristband with silver chloride electrodes attached to a Bluetooth...
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May 3, 2013
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Georgia Tech students working to improve Parkinson’s patients’ lives
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It was a light-bulb moment: the idea sparked with a TI wristwatch. Georgia Institute of Technology bioengineering PhD student Teresa Sanders, a TI Fellow through the TI Leadership University Program, was working with Emory University Parkinson’s Disease specialists, and received an eZ430-Chronos...
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Apr 30, 2013
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You might own a car that drives itself – sooner than you think. Autonomous vehicles are in the not-so-distant future.
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Imagine a car that can fully function alone. It can take an elderly family member to the pharmacy for a prescription. It can drive a blind person to the park. It’s intelligent enough – and capable enough – to take you wherever you need to go without human input. All you have to do is...
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Apr 22, 2013
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Meet the unexpected man behind the marketing: TI’s Brad Ruzicka
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He’s an engineer – turned university campus inspirer. TI worldwide university marketing manager Brad Ruzicka’s path to his current position at TI follows an unlikely route. When Ruzicka was young, he had a passion for science and math. Math, science and technology magnet programs...
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Apr 22, 2013
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Curious about yesterday’s TI/UC Berkeley Electronics Design Lab opening? You’ll want to watch this.
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<p>TI and the University of California, Berkeley, opened the doors yesterday to the newly renovated Electronics Design Lab. It’s packed with sleek workstations and tools designed to inspire engineering students and ignite their interest in the subject – all in a collaborative...
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Apr 12, 2013
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Take Ten: Q&A with TI characterization manager of precision analog Scott Gulas
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Apr 9, 2013
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The TI-revamped UC Berkeley lab opens April 11. But a cool new space isn’t all that will be on display.
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You might have seen our recent post with background info on TI’s new, high-tech engineering Electronics Design Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. If you missed the news, it’s a state-of-the-art engineering lab and maker lounge that is the result of a $2.2 million gift from TI...
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Apr 4, 2013
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Take Ten: Q&A with technology innovation manager Stephanie Watts Butler
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Mar 19, 2013
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TI collaborates with university in Bangladesh to create medical device for rural dwellers
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TI design engineer and TI Bangladesh Diversity Initiative (BDI) member Noor Elahi was in Bangladesh in the 1990s. While visiting remote health centers, he found that rural dwellers weren’t able to easily and affordably access the healthcare they needed: the 20-50 bed health complexes outside urban...
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Mar 12, 2013
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The here and now – and the future -- is all about robots.
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Robots aren’t coming -- they’re here, now, technology of the present. You likely use them every day. (Have a remote-controlled vacuum cleaner? Yep. What about educational toys? They’re there.) But many of their best applications – exploration, search and rescue, assembly and construction...
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Mar 8, 2013
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Got game? A new basketball with TI technologies will tell you.
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Imagine shooting hoops and having your basketball skills measured in real-time. From ball-handling, dribbling and shooting, to overall athleticism, all of your personal skills would be tracked and instantly sent to interactive mobile applications. These apps could track your improvements, helping you...
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Mar 1, 2013
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Tech Talk: Quick chat with Georgia Institute of Technology’s Steven McLaughlin
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Steven McLaughlin, Georgia Institute of Technology professor and Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has an extensive resume. It includes a long list of awards (for one, he was awarded the Knight of the French National Order of Merit, the second-highest...
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Feb 26, 2013
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Bridge vibrations converted to power? With energy harvesting, you bet. That’s the focus of a TI partnership with Penn State
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What if you could: Convert the mechanical vibrations of cars and trucks crossing over a bridge into usable electric energy that can power sensors which monitor the bridge’s structural integrity of that same bridge? Use solar-powered sensors for wireless monitoring of a farm’s crops in a field...
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Feb 19, 2013
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One to Watch: TI systems engineer Devangi Parikh
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To say Devangi Parikh is passionate about speech and audio systems research and development is an understatement. The TI systems engineer is more than happy to apply her education in TI’s Dallas, Tex., Systems and Applications Research & Development Center. She’s hard at work developing...
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Feb 12, 2013
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She’s the Nation’s Top Engineer: Meet TI Applications Engineer Punya Prakash
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She has broken the glass ceiling in the often male-dominated technology industry – in just three short years. She’s already made her mark at TI – and was just named a top innovator by Design News and Mouser Electronics. TI applications engineer Punya Prakash is just getting started...
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Jan 24, 2013
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TI’s DSP Academic Symposium Attracts Leading Engineers
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It was a reunion of top academics, the leading digital signal processing (DSP) pioneers. These founding fathers – world-renowned engineers from leading universities – recently gathered to celebrate the retirement of TI Principal Fellow Gene Frantz, a 39-year TIer, at an Innovators Challenge...
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Jan 22, 2013
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One to Watch: Catching Up with TI Analog Design Engineer Yogesh Ramadass
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“I used to play outside. I’m not the geek playing with electronics,” says Yogesh Ramadass, and laughs. In fact, while growing up in Chennai, India, the TI analog design engineer didn’t make the career connection until he was a high-school senior. He had, however, always known...
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Jan 8, 2013
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One to Watch: Innovative Robot Designer Gautham Ramachandran
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Robotic testing machines that can mimic interactions such as finger swipes, taps and pinches – and are essential to developing touch screen controller chips – can cost $80,000. Or more. But TIer Gautham Ramachandran has designed an innovative tester robot that costs less than $1,000. The...
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Jan 3, 2013
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There are Infinite Possibilities with the Cloud. Why Not Brainstorm?
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TI Principal Fellow Gene Frantz imagines a world where customers enter a restaurant and are handed an Infinite Coffee Cup. The cup may be customized – it could come in different colors, such as a favorite color or the color of a preferred political party, or can even be printed with a daily horoscope...
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Dec 27, 2012
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TI Collaborates with University of Florida Student on FRAM Research
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A research connection – a new idea that needed explaining. That’s what former University of Florida (UF) student and now full-time TIer Tony Acosta had stumbled upon. He thought he had found a link between graduate school research and discoveries he had made as a TI intern. He just needed...
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Dec 18, 2012
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TIer Q&A: Shanghai City's Steven Zhou Cycles Across Taiwan
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Texas Instruments technical sales associate Steven Zhou is anything but a couch potato. At the end of his workdays, the Shanghai City, China, based TIer and biker is either scheming his next big cycling trip, working on his fully customized bike – named “Steven’s Spirit Bike”...
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Dec 4, 2012
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From Breakthrough Idea to On-the-Market Product: TI’s Temperature Sensor
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The Breakthrough Ideas program launched by Texas Instruments (TI)’s Analog Technology Development department is for those who walk the talk. It’s for those who truly love to invent – and go for it. That’s the story behind the first project launched in the program, the TMP006 temperature...
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Nov 9, 2012
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TI Accelerates Autism Research – With a Robot Named Zeno
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It’s scary, frustrating, trying -- to know your child is demonstrating unusual behaviors or showing signs of limited cognitive development. Yet you can’t reach a diagnosis – and are forced to wait months to get one. That’s the struggle parents of autistic children often face...
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Sep 12, 2012
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TI Partners with Texas A&M to Tackle Tough Circuit-Stability Solution
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As a graduate student, the best way to learn -- and be challenged – is by tackling a real-world problem or research project. But it’s rare for a student to be pulled onto an assignment with a major company, working side-by-side with experts, taking on a start-to-finish challenge that makes...
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Sep 11, 2012
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