Texas Instruments is pleased to announces its new Tiva ARM MCU platform. The first devices in the new platform – Tiva C Series TM4C123x ARM Cortex-M4 MCUs – are the first Cortex-M-based MCUs to be built on 65 nanometer flash process technology, setting the roadmap to higher speeds, larger memory and lower power.

Bob Hanrahan of Texas Instruments demonstrates how to measure stability when testing power supplies.

Texas Instruments and the University of California, Berkeley today opened the doors to a state-of-the-art electronics teaching lab. A $2.2 million gift from TI helped transform the existing lab into the Electronics Design Laboratory, designed to encourage ingenuity among undergraduate engineering students.

Texas Instruments introduce a fully-integrated, on-off keying modem transceiver that is compliant with the Antenna Interface Standards Group v2.0 specification. The SN65HVD62 reduces power consumption by up to 50 percent compared to the competition. The transceiver modulates and demodulates signals between the logic (baseband) and a frequency suitable for long coaxial media such as AISG coaxial links between base station and tower- mounted equipm...

Texas Instruments is introducing its newest DaVinci video processor, the DM369, which features best-in-class low-light technology for the megapixel IP camera market. The DM369 video SoC enables video security manufacturers to leverage superior low-light technology to produce crisp, clear image quality. Because the DM369 video SoC is also pin-to-pin compatible with the DM36x family of video processors, current TI customers can now easily extend th...

Texas Instruments announce its participation in HP Project Moonshot and the HP Pathfinder Innovation Ecosystem and affirmed its commitment to helping HP develop innovative, energy-efficient server technology optimized to address new styles of IT workloads. TI’s KeyStone II-based multicore System-on-Chips, now shipping, further advance efforts to design, deliver, standardize and deploy innovative solutions that are uniquely tuned for today’s e...

Texas Instruments announce the availability of a pre-production codec based on the industry’s newest video encoding standard, H.265. This codec is optimized for TI’s TMS320C6678 KeyStone-based multicore digital signal processor. The H.265 standard has been designed to take advantage of parallel processing, making the C6678 multicore DSP an ideal platform for H.265 implementation via its eight 1.25 GHz DSP cores capable of delivering 3...

Check out the DRV10x motor driver for small appliances like toothbrushes, fans and toys. It's a single-chip solution specifically designed to quickly and easily spin 3-phase brushless DC motors.

Bob Hanrahan of Texas Instruments demonstrates how to measure noise when testing power supplies.

Texas Instruments introduce the industry’s first image sensor receiver IC to serve as a dedicated LVDS bridge between image sensors and processors. Compared to existing FPGA-based solutions, the SN65LVDS324 lowers the BOM by 20 percent, reduces system power consumption by more than 10 percent and shrinks package size by 50 percent. It provides full HD, 1080p60 image quality in a host of video capture applications, including surveillance IP ...

Texas Instruments introduce a haptic driver that makes it easy to add realistic tactile feedback effects to consumer and industrial products, such as smartphones, tablets, ebooks, refrigerators, microwave ovens and washing machines. The DRV2605 is the only eccentric rotating mass actuator and linear resonant actuator haptic driver pre-loaded with a library of 123 distinct haptic effects designed and licensed by Immersion.

Brian gives a quick tour of the DRV2605 evaluation kit. The DRV2605EVM-CT is a complete demo and eval kit that gives you the flexibility to control and explore the features of the DRV2605 ERM/LRA haptic driver. The board contains the DRV2605 haptic driver, a programmable MSP430 microcontroller, an ERM and LRA actuator, and capacitive touch buttons. With one board, you can both characterize the DRV2605 on the bench and demonstrate it around the of...

Texas Instruments unveil a new synchronous step-down DC-DC converter with integrated MOSFETs in a very small 3.5-mm by 3.5-mm HotRod QFN package. The SWIFT 10-A TPS54020 features the highest power density and includes frequency synchronization, 180-degree out-of-phase switching and selectable current limit to power FPGAs, system-on-chip, DSPs and processors in high-voltage, space-constrained communication, gaming and industrial computing applicat...

Part 1- of a 4-part video series by TI's Bob Hanrahan kicks off with an overview on testing power supplies.

Texas Instruments Incorporated introduces the industry’s first fully programmable DC arc detect reference solution. The RD-195 makes it faster and easier for designers to address a growing need to safeguard high-power DC systems, such as automobile and aircraft battery management systems, industrial factory equipment, and photovoltaic units, against the catastrophic damage that can result from arc faults. Designers can program the RD-195 to opt...

Further advancing its low-cost portfolio, Texas Instruments today announces the expansion of the MSP430 Value Line microcontroller series with new G2xx4 and G2xx5 devices. These new devices offer a code-compatible upgrade path for TI's MSP430 Value Line series, expanding memory from 16kB up to 56kB Flash and up to 4kB SRAM, enabling customers to migrate existing solutions and support connectivity protocols such as wireless MBUS and near field com...

Texas Instruments today introduced a complete reference design that provides designers all the analog and embedded processing integrated circuits (ICs) required for automotive emergency call (eCall) systems. Vehicles equipped with eCall systems will automatically place calls to an emergency service center in the event of an accident. Customers can accelerate the design of their eCall systems by taking advantage of this reference solution comprise...

Texas Instruments announce lithium-ion battery charger integrated circuits that reduce charge time by 50 percent in smartphones and tablets compared to other charger solutions. The bq2419x family of 4.5-A output, 20-V input-rated switch-mode chargers with I2C interface and USB On-the-Go support delivers faster and cooler charging to a wide array of applications ranging from power banks and packs to 4G LTE routers, Wi-Fi speakers, portable medical...

Texas Instruments reveal that its SafeTI functional safety hardware development process is now certified as suitable for development of ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 compliant components. TI achieved this process certification from TÜV SÜD. The certificate demonstrates TI’s commitment to have a process suitable for developing hardware components that are compliant to ISO 26262 and IEC 61508.

A discussion of input/output, jumper settings, power supply and control pin mode for the evaluation modules for the CDCE9xx family of clocks.