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How to HART-enable your analog input module
The Internet of things (IoT) has implications for Industry 4.0, motivating smart sensor transmitters and similarly capable programmable logic controller (PLC) analog input modules. A previous blog post...
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Are you cooking up a new circuit? We can help!
To accelerate the design process, we have developed something new call Analog Engineer’s Circuits. They are in a "recipe" format that includes step-by-step instructions, basic formulas, schematic...
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These are not your grandfather’s TVS diodes
Conventional transient voltage suppression (TVS) diodes have been essential building blocks in system designs for decades. They protect against transient surge events, and many designers rely on TVS...
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Designing tiny microphone circuits with the industry’s smallest op amp
Voice commands are a popular feature in many applications as a way to differentiate products in the market. Microphones are a primary component to any voice- or speech-based system and electret...
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How to select serializers and deserializers in HMI systems
A human-machine interface (HMI) usually includes a textual or graphical view of automated system conditions and operations. HMIs are widely used in factory automation, motion control systems,...
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The importance of automotive Ethernet standards
Ethernet adoption and adaptation by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier-1 companies has been underway for several years now. Automotive-oriented amendments to the Institute of Electrical...
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Optical heart-rate sensors for biometric wearables
This is the first in a three-part series on optical heart rate sensors for biometric wearables. This first installment focuses on how these sensor systems work and what you can measure with them.Most...
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Gigabit xMII for 100BASE-T1: why are RGMII & SGMII important for 100 Mbps PHYs?
Ethernet offers a more flexible networking technology for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), infotainment systems, body electronics and power trains; previous in-vehicle communication...
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10 lessons learned from 50-plus biometric wearable product development cycles
This is the second in a three-part series on optical heart rate sensors for biometric wearables. The first installment focused on how these sensor systems work and what you can measure with them.You’re...
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How much loading can an auto-polarity RS-485 bus support?
The RS-485 interface is popular because of its robustness; the use of differential signaling effectively rejects common-mode noise on the bus. To make the communication work, the transceiver and...
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Smart speakers don’t have to sound as small as they are
Smart speakers are ingeniously helpful devices, providing weather reports, ordering food or playing a favorite song. As consumers find more ways to use virtual assistants, these devices are being added...
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Improving IC reliability for harsh design environments
It’s hard to believe that I’ve actually grown up with the integrated circuit (IC), which recently turned 50 years old (I pre-date that slightly … but hey, who’s counting). As a boy, I dreamed of Star...
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How to calculate the power dissipation of high-speed RS-485 transceivers
The RS-485 interface is widely used in industrial applications because of its robustness and long-distance communication capability. Since the RS-485 standard was first introduced to the market in...
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How sensor technology is evolving to meet cold chain needs
With full compliance now in effect for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Sanitary Transportation Act, it’s a good time to provide an update on TI’s technology to help meet the evolving...
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What are the advantages of using JFET-input amplifiers in high-speed...
As an introduction to this post, let me provide some background. Voltage-feedback amplifiers are sometimes categorized based on the type of transistors in the device: either bipolar, complementary...
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How to achieve network synchronization clocks with TI digital PLLs
As current telecommunication networks move from legacy synchronous optical networking (SONET)/synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) networks to Ethernet transport networks, more and more services are...
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Emerging medical applications for optical heart rate sensor technology in...
This is the third installment in a three-part series on optical heart rate sensors for biometric wearables. The first installmentfocused on how these sensor systems work and what you can measure with...
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How the RS-232 transceiver’s regulated charge-pump circuitry works
The RS-232 interface is popular in single-ended low-speed serial communications. The interface was originally designed to connect the serial port of a computer to peripheral devices. The Electronics...
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Create an eye-opening experience with a 10G USB3 redriver
Signal integrity, the measure of electrical signal quality, can be visualized by displaying a signal waveform on an oscilloscope. This visualization is commonly known as an eye diagram, and is...
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What is an EFT? Part 2
In my last post, I discussed what an electrical fast transient (EFT) is at a high-level. For part two, let’s explore why EFTs matter and why they should be considered during your design...
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