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TI and MIT collaborate on researching material that could be the next big thing that powers devices – including yours.
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Imagine a charger that powers your laptop – but it’s the size of a cell phone charger. It’s smaller and lighter, but still packs the same power punch. This is just one way that new material being researched today could save energy – and impact your life. TI has been working...
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May 21, 2013
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Xiaolin Lu First Woman and TIer Named Co-Chair of Jonsson School’s IAB
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Tier Xiaolin Lu, currently the smart grid R&D manager, has made history twice: she’s both the first woman co-chair and first TI employee to be appointed to the University of Texas at Dallas’ Jonsson School Industrial Advisory Board. The IAB is a council of more than 60 representatives...
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May 14, 2013
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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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TI Analog Design Engineer Wins Innovator of the Year Award
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TI analog design engineer, Yogesh Ramadass, was “ One to Watch ” back in January and has definitely earned that distinction. Ramadass has just been named Innovator of the Year in UBM’s 2013 Annual Creativity in Electronics Awards ( UBM ACE Awards ) for the energy harvesting work he’s...
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May 2, 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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TIer Don Shaver is a tireless advocate for Power Line Communications standardization. For that, he just nabbed an IEEE award.
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“You are the recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Power Line Communications 2013 TC-PLC Inter-disciplinary Research and Application Award,” the email read. The recipient: TIer Don Shaver, who is so humble, he nearly deleted the email before reading it – he was pleasantly...
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Apr 19, 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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TI is charged up about Mophie
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You’re ready to update your status or respond to those incoming emails – then your smartphone dies. And you’re without your charger. Running out of cell battery juice at a critical moment has happened even to the most organized – even those Type As. That’s where the Mophie...
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Apr 11, 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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TI is opening a shiny new engineering lab at UC Berkeley. We get the details from TI chief technology officer Ahmad Bahai.
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In just two weeks, TI and the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering open the doors to a state-of the-art engineering lab and hacker/maker lounge that will provide a hands-on, dynamic learning environment for more than 1,000 students yearly. It’s the result of a $2.2 million...
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Mar 28, 2013
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No Limits: Kyle Flessner, TI’s vice president of worldwide semiconductor quality and packaging
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Kyle Flessner was checking out an engineering job fair at Texas A&M University (where he was earning his master’s degree in statistics) and was getting dismissed at the very mention of “statistics.” No one was interested in a statistician. No one, that is, until he got to the...
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Mar 21, 2013
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Brain power: TIer leads youths to robotics competition
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TI engineer Rachel Moore is a proud, self-described “nerd.” The test engineer in TI’s Multi-Cell Battery Charge Management (MBCM) group, who we covered in this story, has always been interested in math and science. While at Texas Tech University, she spent three summers working as...
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Mar 14, 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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One to Watch: TI test engineer Gregory Duperon
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“I’ve always believed that you can do good while also doing well,” says TI test engineer Gregory Duperon. A first-generation college student (who proudly received his bachelor's and master’s degrees from Georgia Tech), Duperon is not only a skilled TI test engineer, he’s...
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Feb 21, 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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Federal funding is crucial to technology’s future, TI CEO Rich Templeton tells U.S. Committee on Science, Space & Technology
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Rich Templeton was recently asked to testify to the Committee on Science, Space and Technology on “American Competitiveness: The Role of Research and Development.” The goal of the hearing was to inform congress of the impact of research and development (R&D) on the lives of the American...
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Feb 6, 2013
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From China to Texas: TI’s Sue Su and Kol Zhang Talk Technical Sales Training
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Checking out the Fort Worth Stockyards (and loving the cattle). Taking weekend side trips to Austin and taste-testing Tex-Mex. Enjoying a reprieve from 23-million-and-counting, bustling Shanghai. Technical sales reps in training Kol Zhang and Sue Su – just two of 22 Chinese TIers who are in the...
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Jan 29, 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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TI India Engineer Helps Company Nab Prestigious Honor
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He’s a key component to TI’s win of the 2012 Outstanding Contributor of the Year Award from the Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP). It was no small feat – earning the award required dedication, with hours of hard work, vast technical knowledge, and commitment. That’s...
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Jan 15, 2013
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