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Mouser EE Times and EDN ACE Awards 2013

Winners will be announced at the Awards Event taking place on Tuesday, April 23rd at The Sainte Claire Hotel during DESIGN West. Awards Event Tickets available now! Click HereAll finalists are invited...

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EDN Hot 100 products of 2012: Communications/networking and RF/microwave

This section of EDN's Hot 100 Products of 2012 includes communications products - both telecom and datacom related - and RF/microwave products. Click on any product name to read the original full art...

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TU Detroit 2013: Day One

The 13th annual Telematics Detroit conference got underway today in Novi, Michigan, where the full spectrum of OEMs, telematics hardware and service providers, members of the media and consultants con...

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MaxLife battery New TI chips speed charge times and extend battery life for smartphones, ...

New Texas Instruments chipsets won’t help your device run longer on a single charge, but they will allow for 30 percent faster recharging. And the Li-Ion battery in your mobile device will last longer...

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Wireless power technology embraces user-friendly features

Wireless charging technology has been recognized as a very attractive solution to a wide range of applications because it conveniently replaces power cords and charging cables. This emerging technolog...

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Telematics Detroit 2013: Record numbers set to attend technology, auto conference

NOVI, MI- A record number of technology and automotive officials are set to attend a telematics conference this week in metro Detroit, according to officials.More than 2,000 senior executives are expe...

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DIY With TI Beverage Cooler With A Stereo

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Three flavors of Bluetooth: Which one to choose?

The Bluetooth 4.0 specification brought a new form of Bluetooth technology – variously known as Bluetooth LE, Bluetooth Low Energy, or Bluetooth Smart in communications directed towards the consumer....

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YmsCoreBluetooth Demo - SensorTag Remote Control for iOS

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Embedded Linux Training Courses Introducing the BeagleBone Black's Linux 3.8 kernel - LinuxGizmos.com

This guest column by BeagleBoard.org co-founder Jason Kridner introduces the BeagleBone Black’s cutting-edge Linux 3.8 kernel, up from the original BeagleBone’s 3.2 kernel. The new kernel incorporates...

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May 2013 TI introduces industry's fastest 4-channel, 14-bit ADC at 250 MSPS

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) introduced the industry’s fastest 4-channel, 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), clocking in at 250 MSPS. The high-density ADS4449 enables receiver systems to support...

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In San Francisco, a House with Its Own Twitter Feed | MIT Technology Review

It’s fast becoming cheaper and easier to connect all kinds of traditionally unconnected devices to the Internet, and doing so can increase their functionality.At first glance, you’d never guess there’...

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Controlling Volume—log pots

Have you ever tried to use a linear potentiometer (pot) as a volume control? Yikes! The volume jumps up much too rapidly. It requires a safe-cracker’s touch to adjust the volume to quiet listening l...

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Power is More Than One Number

I know what you are thinking, but it’s true!  Power IS more than one number. We discussed this in greater detail when we first launched TI’s new lowest power MCU technology platform, “Wolverine.” In...

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Beagleboard Rasberry Pi BeagleBone Black Review

Price: $45/£37 Operating system: Angstrom Linux 3.8.6 (Pre-Loaded) Processor: 1GHz Texas Instruments Sitara AM3359 Cortex-A8 SoC Graphics: Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX530 (Embedded) Memory: 51...

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innovation – what’s new

In this whiteboard video series, TI innovators address challenges such as, energy efficiency and brainstorm innovative ways the semiconductor industry can solve those challenges.Vicki explores some of...

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 Taking a road trip the TI way

Here in Detroit, much like other places in the Midwest, we are trying to put the long winter (and spring that felt like winter) behind us.  With the warmth of summer sunshine, we become mobile again,...

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International Microwave Symposium, June 4-6, 2013

Texas Instruments systems and applications engineers will be discussing and demonstrating the world's highest performance data converters, amplifiers, modulators, PLL/VCOs and clock jitter cleaners th...

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Where Did I Go Wrong? The System Edition

In my previous blog “Where Did I Go Wrong? Funny Mistakes in Electrical Engineering” I discussed some simple, yet devastating things that led to circuit failures.  In this post, I’m going to touch on...

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 Cable equalization 101

In “Cable Equalization 101 - Automating your design,” we saw how a spreadsheet like Excel can be used to generate an equalization design rather painlessly, and we obtained the design in Figure 1 below...

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"Good Vibrations"

I've always found "resonance" to be an interesting word, even when I couldn't always provide an accurate definition of it.  There are so many different meanings, most of which have some connection to...

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Sensors Expo 2013: TI beverage automation demo

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Automotive Central Body Controller

The Automotive Central Body Controller supervises and controls functions related to the car body such as lights, windows, door lock and works as a gateway for CAN and LIN networks. Load control can ei...

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Model Your ADCs In Spice (Part 2)

When designing a system’s signal chain, lots of time is probably devoted to selecting the proper analog-signal driver for the successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC). C...

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Texas Instruments becomes first semiconductor company to install AutoStore® ...

SINGAPORE, June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Further enhancing the efficiency and reliability of its product shipments throughout Asia, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) today announced it...

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ICs Training

See the latest cutting-edge analog and digital technologies across a wide range of applications. Hear in-depth insights, receive hands-on training and walk away with samples and discounted tools to he...

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934863_10201201455226869_1018152781_n.jpg element14: TGIF

Howdy - I was quite pleased to get a groovy BeagleBone Black BeagleBone Black t-shirt at DESIGN West and couldn't resist wearing it for TGIF.  Boris looks so classy!For those that have already have a...

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20130506_144729.jpg element14: BoothStache: Facial hair fun with BeagleBone Black, in BeagleBone ...

BoothStache is a version of BeagleStache by Jason Kridner optimized for an expo hall booth at a conference (like DESIGN West).  Instead of a LCD cape, BoothStache uses the BeagleBone Black's BeagleBon...

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Slew Rate—the op amp speed limit

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Design femtoampere circuits with low leakage - Part 3: Low-current ...

For proper operation of critical sub-picoamp circuits, some “unconventional” construction techniques may be required.The classic low-current technique is the “up-in-the-air” wiring technique, where le...

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My thermostat is smarter than you!

In our newest white paper, Smart thermostats are a cool addition to the connected home, we learn about the evolution of the thermostat from the days of the mechanical dial to the smart thermostat of t...

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