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Top five reasons to use 3.3V CAN transceivers
Controller Area Network (CAN) systems have traditionally been based around 5-V supplies. However, 3.3-V CAN controllers and transceivers are becoming increasingly popular as well. In this post, I’ll...
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How to minimize filter loss when you drive an ADC
Filtering plays an essential part in nearly all communication systems, since removing noise and distortion increases channel capacity. Designing a filter to pass only the desired frequencies is fairly...
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Avoid these challenges when implementing USB Type-C™ protection
By now, many people have heard of the USB Type-C connector. At a high level, it’s a new connector defined by the latest USB standard that combines power delivery, data, audio and video into a single...
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Why use a USB Type-C™ redriver in your personal electronics designs?
The USB Type-C connector is quickly becoming the de-facto interface in consumer devices, as it supports multiple data and video standards including USB and DisplayPort™. The USB 3.1 standard specifies...
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How does a linear resonant actuator work?
Guest blogger Shantanu Balu is the co-founder of Somatic Labs, which created Moment, an innovative wearable that communicates with the user entirely through the sense of touch.Diagram of the...
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Logic gates and switches with Ioff – empowering you to power down
Many modern high-speed systems like enterprise servers or network switches require continuous operation without affecting signal integrity,especially while swapping hardware. One of the essential and...
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Real-time temperature sensing with dual-mode connectivity
Today, there are many applications that require accurate and continuous temperature sensing to protect a product or improve system performance. Temperature sensors now have the ability to deliver...
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How to improve IoT designs with a nanopower EMI-tolerant op amp
Designers of Internet of Things (IoT) applications have two primary concerns: managing power to maximize battery life and ensuring reliable operation against all sorts of electromagnetic interference...
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How to use the LDC calculations tool
While developing inductance-to-digital converters (LDCs) at TI, we often use a variety of spreadsheets to determine the appropriate settings or capabilities. I decided to combine all of the various...
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Robust isolators prevent you from saying “I see dead circuits!”
In this day and age, when we change gadgets every year, we hardly care about how many years these gadgets last. It has a long lifetime if it lasts until the unveiling of the next revision. But there...
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Two ways to save power with low-power Ethernet
“Why is Ethernet so power-hungry?” is a common question. A typical active power 10/100 Mbps Ethernet physical layer (PHY) transceiver consumes 110mW to over 300mW, while a 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit...
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USB Type-C™: Will your ESD solution protect the port?
If you are a designer tasked with migrating the USB ports in your system to the latest USB standard and USB Type-C connector, you have likely already considered a couple of things.ESD protectionFirst,...
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A survival guide to scaling your PLL loop filter design
Let’s say that you have already spent some time optimizing your phase-locked loop (PLL) by iteratively massaging the phase margin and loop bandwidth. Unfortunately, you may still be unable to get a...
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Intro to I2C: what the Internet doesn’t tell you
I trust Internet search engines as my first source to provide me with reliable and quick answers, so when I first encountered the I2C protocol, I asked my trusted-source to help out. My search...
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Why phase noise matters in RF sampling converters
** This is the 16th post in an Analog Wire RF sampling blog series. **Radio frequency (RF) sampling data converters support very wide signal bandwidths and a variety of modulation schemes. The clocking...
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How you can use the LDC racetrack inductor designer tool
In my previous post, I introduced the LDC calculator tool, which you can download here. It can calculate a number of useful parameters for an Inductive Sensing application.LDC devices use inductors to...
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How to correct 10Gbps performance issues with a USB Type-C™ active redriver...
With today’s 4K ultra high-definition (UHD) TVs (and future 8K UHD TVs), as well as solid-state storage speeds, more video and data bandwidth is a must. Interface standards groups in the industry are...
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How switching above the AM band eases automotive Class-D amplifier EMC designs
As I recall riding in my dad’s 1957 Chevy, every time he would change the radio to a new station in the AM band, I could hear a lot of static. This loud buzzing sound represents noise from the car’s...
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What you need to know about input bias current – and why
One of my standard interview questions for new college graduates is to describe the non-ideal aspects of an operational amplifier (op amp). While most candidates start with open-loop gain, offset...
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Inductive sensing: make your proximity-switch applications as easy as 1, 2, 3...
When customers are designing proximity-switch applications using inductive sensing devices like the LDC0851 switch, they often ask me how to design a coil for a given switching distance. Today, I want...
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