mmWave sensors use radio frequency (RF) sensing rather than light or sound, which offers advantages because the sensors can detect people and objects through a variety of materials such as glass and drywall. These sensors can also operate even when environmental factors such as smoke, rain and low-light conditions are present.

In a passive-entry-passive-start (PEPS) automotive system using Bluetooth Low Energy technology, drivers enter their car and start the electric motor (or engine, in the case of an internal combustion engine) using a key fob that communicates with the car’s access systems, instead of a key.

This Texas Instruments design incorporates a power over coax (POC) filter network, mid-vin synchronous step-down DC/DC converter, and low-Vin power management IC (PMIC) to demonstrate a typical automotive camera power solution within an 18x18mm footprint.

This reference design from Texas Instruments demonstrates reinforced isolated CAN communication, which is widely used in automotive environments, in a small footprint. In hybrid and electric vehicles (HEV/EVs), a complete high-voltage network is floating with respect to the chassis ground.

The LM5150-Q1 device from Texas Instruments is a wide input range automatic boost controller. The device is suitable for use as a pre-boost converter which maintains the output voltage from a vehicle battery during automotive cranking or from a back-up battery during the loss of vehicle battery.

With LEDs being widely used in automotive applications, simple LED drivers are more and more popular. Compared to discrete solutions, a low-cost monolithic solution lowers system-level component counts and significantly improves current accuracy and reliability.

The TPS7A02 from Texas Instruments is an ultra-small, ultra-low quiescent current low-dropout linear regulator (LDO) that can source 200 mA with excellent transient performance. The TPS7A02, with an ultra-low IQ of 25 nA, is designed specifically for applications where very-low quiescent current is a critical parameter. 

This reference design is a small-sized cell supervision demonstrator design for a centralised battery management system (BMS). Its configurable capacitive isolation daisy chain solution enables monitoring and protecting cells ranging from six-series to 96-series, which allows its use in BMS systems ranging from 24 to 400V.

The TIDA-01168 reference design from Texas Instruments is a four-phase, bidirectional DC-DC converter development platform for 12-V/48-V automotive systems. The system uses two LM5170-Q1 current controllers and a TMS320F28027F microcontroller (MCU) for the power stage control.

The DS90UB941AS-Q1 from Texas Instruments is a dual DSI to FPD-Link III bridge serialiser designed for automotive infotainment applications. In response to the rise in number and variance of displays in infotainment systems, the DS90UB941AS-Q1 can support symmetric and asymmetric splitting.

The DS90UB948-Q1 from Texas Instruments is a FPD-Link III deserialiser which, in conjunction with the DS90UB949A/949/947-Q1 serialisers, converts 1-lane or 2-lane FPD-Link III streams into a FPD-Link (OpenLDI) interface. The Deserialiser is capable of operating over cost-effective 50-Ω single-ended coaxial or 100-Ω differential shielded twisted-pair (STP) cables. 

The INA333-Q1 from Texas Instruments is a low-power, precision instrumentation amplifier offering excellent accuracy. The versatile three-operational-amplifier design, small size, and low power make this device an excellent choice for a wide range of automotive applications that use resistive bridge sensors.

The TLV900x-Q1 family from Texas Instruments includes dual (TLV9002-Q1) and quad-channel (TLV9004-Q1) low-voltage (1.8 to 5.5V) operational amplifiers (op amps) with rail-to-rail input and output swing capabilities. These op amps provide a cost-effective solution for space-constrained automotive applications such as infotainment and lighting where low-voltage operation and high capacitive-load drive are required. 

In this training video you will learn the basic difference between the hybrid boost and narrow-voltage DC architectures, focusing on the benefits of each.

The TLV9062-Q1 (dual), and TLV9064-Q1 (quad) from Texas Instruments are dual-, and quad- low-voltage (1.8 V to 5.5 V) operational amplifiers (op amps) with rail-to-rail input- and output-swing capabilities. These devices are cost-effective solutions for automotive applications where low-voltage operation, a small footprint, and high capacitive load drive are required. 

The LM2904-Q1 and LM2904B-Q1 from Texas Instruments are industry-standard operational amplifiers that have been qualified for automotive use in accordance to the AEC-Q100 specifications. The LM2904B-Q1 is the next-generation version of the LM2904-Q1, which include two high-voltage (36-V) operational amplifiers (op amps). 

Embedded electronics are becoming ever more present in automotive applications, particularly as a means of limiting risk to drivers. With this increasing dependence on electronic systems comes an increasing need to monitor the functioning of these systems in order to detect potentially critical errors.

The TIDA-00743 reference design from Texas Instruments is a small module designed for evaluation of a digital-input class-D audio amplifier in a system which has been designed for a typical class AB audio power amplifier module. This design demonstrates the reduction in power dissipation that a class D amplifier provides. 

The OPA1612-Q1 device from Texas Instruments is a dual, SoundPlus, bipolar-input operational amplifier that achieves achieve very low 1.1nV/√Hz noise density with an ultralow distortion of 0.000015% at 1kHz. The OPA1612-Q1 device offers rail-to-rail output swing to within 600mV with a 2kΩ load, which increases headroom and maximises dynamic range. 

The TAS6424-Q1 device from Texas Instruments is a four-channel digital-input Class-D audio amplifier that implements a 2.1MHz PWM switching frequency that enables a cost-optimised solution in a very small PCB size, full operation down to 4.5V for start/stop events, and exceptional sound quality with up to 40kHz audio bandwidth.