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  • How TI India Analog Design Contest is helping to Fuel Innovation in Indian Universities - Part 3/3

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    How TI India Analog Design Contest is helping to Fuel Innovation in Indian Universities - Part 3/3 In the second part of this blog, you read about the final phase of the TI India Analog Design Contest (2011-2012) and about the award ceremony of this...
  • How TI India Analog Design Contest is helping to Fuel Innovation in Indian Universities - Part 2/3

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    How TI India Analog Design Contest is helping to Fuel Innovation in Indian Universities - Part 2/3 Dr. C.P. Ravikumar and Sagar Juneja In the first part of this blog, you read about the TI India Analog Design Contest – what it is all about...
  • How TI India Analog Design Contest is helping to Fuel Innovation in Indian Universities - Part 1/3

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    Read about innovative projects carried out in Indian Universities as part of the TI India Analog Design Contest.
  • Gift from TI will modernize Electronic Design Lab at UC Berkeley

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    As a way to help foster the next generation of innovative engineers, the aging but heavily used Electronic Design Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, is getting a much-needed transformation. On May 10, Texas Instruments announced...
  • Lubbock Mini Maker's Faire- First Maker's Faire in Texas!

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    I am so excited that this past Saturday the TI-University Program was able to participate in Lubbock Mini Maker's Faire! Myself, another TI'er and a carful of launchpad demos + give aways made our way to Lubbock this past weekend to participate...
  • Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest - Are you registered as yet?

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    It is still not too late!! We already have over 100 teams that have registered from universities across the US / Canada. All you have to do is register for the contest at www.ti.com/analogdesigncontest . You will receive a $200 coupon code to buy Evaluation...
  • Introduce Programming to your Students--- with a little Boost

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    Traveling to various universities over the past several months, I’ve observed that many undergraduate students in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering loathe learning embedded programming languages. I’m not sure if I’m...
  • MIT's Processing – what is it ?

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    Display Data on your computer-- Graphically! References from: www.processing.org MIT's Processing is a method to interface your embedded project to your computer in a graphical manner. It is an open source programming language and environment...
  • Ever After Senior Design... make it work for you.

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    Senior Design is one of my favourite places to stop when I am visiting Universities. A lot of different methodologies exist for teaching Senior Design. Some have pre-ordained projects that the teams of students have to execute. Others let the students...
  • What is a Teaching ROM?

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    If you go to the University Website : http://ti.com/university and select any of the product group you may come across a particular term called a “ Teaching ROM ”. Which begs the question: What is a Teaching ROM? The word Teaching...
  • A Place to Play – Innovation Labs

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    I’m at home this week on holiday and thought it’d be a good time to do a few ‘out of box experience’ tryouts on new dev kits . First I had to find a place to play. Clearing the dining room table and setting up electronics for an...
  • Eval Bot + Chronos Visit RIT for ARM DAY

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    Just reccently we were invited to participate in Rochester Institute of Technology's ARM Developer's Day. The event, a success, featured 2 sessions of a hands-on-workshop and answering of questions at the booth. Details to ARM DEVELOPER's...
  • Easy Hands-On DSP Teaching with a Audio Out-of-Box Demo

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    I have to hand it to our C5000 DSP team; they took the out of box experience challenge for demos to the next level. I absolutely love my new C5535 eZdsp USB Stick Development Kit . Without loading any software onto my PC, I set it up the first time by...
  • Music to my ears…Building Instruments with Beagleboards

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    I recently had the immense pleasure of touring the CCRMA (pronounced Karma) at Stanford University, being a former musician myself, it was blissful. The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics is a place full of amazing innovation. Housed...
  • Sign up for C2000 MCU Workshop on Oct 25 and MSP430 Launchpad training on Oct 26

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    Wanted to share some great MCU workshops that you might want to attend! 1 Day MCU Workshops C2000 Microcontroller Workshop ...
  • Where has your LaunchPad been? Mine goes everywhere!

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    This could be titled – Hey, what’s that in your purse ? It is so exciting that I can now carry around a live demo of our development technology safely in my purse. I’ve been hoping to accomplish this for a long time and thanks...
  • Steve Jobs: Messages for Innovation

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    This past week we say goodbye to one of the technology industries visionaries: Steve Jobs. Granted there is no shortage of tributes, articles and analysis on this great man. As one of the pioneers of personalizing technology for the every-day person,...
  • Project Round Up

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    Here are some really fun projects that I have found while doing my every-day internet searches. Top Row: 1. Instructables.com: A cheap motion detection camera (for Wildlife) by member : Doug Paradis 2. ti.com/launchpad: Hack a HEXBUG Spider...
  • Find your Car ... with embedded processing

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    I was in the Santa Monica Shopping Centre this weekend, visiting a friend the weekend before this week's upcoming Anaheim TECH DAY , when I came across something really exciting! We were on our way back to our car and were laughing about now needing...
  • TI supports Educators through SPEN Fellowship

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    Attention Signal/Embedded Processing Educators – SPEN now has a fellowship for authors putting educational materials into the repository! We just returned from the Signal Processing Education Network (SPEN) meeting at Georgia Tech where Gene Frantz...
  • Free lunch! oh... and a 1 Day MCU Workshop on Oct 26 at TI in Dallas

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    Jacob, who used to be in our University Program team (defected to MCU business team a few months ago) was kind enough to remember where he came from and shared this MCU workshop with us. So, I wanted to pass this along to all you E2E Community peeps....
  • It’s an exciting time to be an engineer

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    I am inspired each time I visit a campus and meet with professors and students to discuss their goals, teaching, learning and see these ideas in progress. The greatest ideas are formulating right this minute in our world’s universities with tomorrow’s...
  • Instructables Wireless Challenge

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    Check out something interesting from www.instructables.com Apparently, they have a WEEKLY challenge that they give numerous prizes out for the best "How To" Project. This week? One of the best places that TI excells at... Wireless! ...
  • Welcome to the University Zone!

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    Welcome to the first blog for the University Zone! My name is Brad Ruzicka and I manage the WW University Marketing program for Texas Instruments. Engaging and partnering with universities are an important focus for a company like TI. For a semiconductor...
  • Senior Design Project Ideas: Where Have All the Turtles Gone?

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    by Syd Coppersmith If you’ve been looking through the senior project lists I’ve posted to date on my blog, you’ll start to see some strong trends in the kinds of projects students choose. Robots are mighty popular. Medical and...