Battery packs have enabled a new generation of personal electronics. Products with demanding power requirements like power tools, e-bikes, and electric vehicles have been redefined by advancements in high performance battery technology. Today, batteries must be safer, more efficient, and smarter than ever before. The increased demand for intelligent battery pack systems…
Developing functional safety systems in a streamlined and simplified manner calls for robust functional safety support. Part of this includes having the resources to validate that the development tools used in the system design process meet functional safety requirements.
The new TI Arm® Clang compiler’s available TI compiler qualification kit helps simplify system design development efforts. The TI compiler qualification…
Sean Murphy co-authored this technical article.
The shift toward industry 4.0 automation spurred an exponential increase of robots on factory floors, including industrial robots, collaborative robots and service robots (automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots). Because these robots often work alongside humans, they must have advanced sensing and functional safety capabilities…
Scalability, reliability, security and speed—these are the advantages that the Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Network (Wi-SUNTM) offers to smart cities and the Internet of Things. But as a developer, how can you maximize these advantages in your software design?
Here are four important questions to ask before choosing a Wi-SUN stack.
Question No. 1: Should…
Kevin Koestler co-authored this article.
Have you ever been in a crowded hallway with people talking at the same time? Only those talking loudest can be heard. However, if each person talks one at a time, everyone’s communication can be heard clearly even in the same crowded space. This scenario is similar to the wireless spectrum and the increasing number of connected devices.
The 2.4 GHz band is widely used in…
Advances in automated factories and smart vehicles require advanced networking capabilities, real-time processing, analytics at the edge and more advanced motor-control topologies. These examples illustrate the rapidly growing need for a high-performance microcontroller (MCU) that can outpace traditional MCUs and deliver processor-like capabilities. In this article, I’ll cover five…
One of the top worldwide trends in metering is to add connectivity to the meter. This allows for efficient readouts, over the air updates, and quick connectivity to your phone. In large buildings with various tenants, you have multiple meters that need to be read monthly. If all these meters are connected, pulling data from them is as simple as walking up to a data collector…
What do you think of when you hear the word “gateway”? The literal definition, “an opening that can be closed by a gate” or “a means of access or entry to a place,” makes sense in the context of electronics and our connected world, where a gateway provides a local network with access to another network or to the internet. In this article, I’ll explain some…
The world population is 7.8 billion and is on the rise, with an estimate of 10 billion by 2050. The growing population needs basic necessities such as food, clothing and ever-increasing comforts safely and securely. Industry 4.0 technologies today and upcoming Industry 5.0 innovations in smart manufacturing, smart buildings and smart grid can serve these…
Gallium nitride (GaN) field-effect transistors (FETs) provide drastically improved switching losses and higher power density over silicon-carbide and silicon-based FETs, respectively. These traits can be particularly helpful in high-switching-frequency applications such as digital power converters, where they can help reduce the size of the magnetics.
Designers…
When designing a system, the main goal is to meet high performance requirements at a low overall cost. It’s a delicate balance that influences the architecture of the whole system. Many systems, such as field transmitters, thermometers and electricity meters (also called e-meters) include at least one sensor, which may require an analog front end (AFE) as well. However, simply…
Most modern Internet-of-Things appliances and devices can be monitored, controlled and activated from anywhere in the world. These things generate data regularly, and collectively they account for a massive amount of data. To access information and services quickly and reliably, companies across all sectors are more invested in connectivity, which entails faster, more reliable networks and better encryption and security…
You probably find it challenging to set up the various components for your designs. Software development can often be daunting in its complexity, and the added effort of figuring out every component in a system can be intimidating when beginning a design. In order to speed time to market and simplify the software development process when interfacing embedded processing components…
You’re probably constantly looking for ways to optimize your printed circuit board (PCB) designs. From reducing board size to lowering costs and component count, maximizing efficiency is a requirement for almost any design.
Adding a small, low-cost microcontroller (MCU) for simple housekeeping functions…
From lights to locks, homes are becoming more connected – more sensors, more gadgets, more data. As technology continues to advance, consumers crave the ability to monitor, track and sense more, whether it’s temperature, light or motion.
While people’s dependency on technology increases, so does frustration if they’re out of wireless network range, unable to connect, or losing time with network or application…
With its low-cost and low-power features, Bluetooth® Low Energy technology has become the foundation for a wide range of applications. One example is using Bluetooth beacons to create a real-time location system, which is a positioning system that can monitor the whereabouts of equipment or people.
So what role does Bluetooth play in this type of application? Asset tracking uses Bluetooth tags that communicate with…
Bluetooth® connects us to the world through our smartphone. We can interface with door locks, thermostats or even our cars. But is all Bluetooth the same? Do you unlock your car with the same Bluetooth that you used to stream music from your phone to a smart speaker?
The answer is yes – and no. Bluetooth Low Energy is a standards-based…
As soon as you receive a new development kit, you want to get started developing as quickly as possible, right? Searching for all of the right tools and resources can be a daunting task that slows you down – unless the tools you are using could determine the resources you need automatically.
Using TI’s cloud-based development tools, it is possible to plug in your LaunchPad…
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