Articles & White Papers
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Designing with energy-efficient microcontrollers
The increased use of embedded microcontrollers in electronic equipment coupled with a world energy crisis will force electronics engineers to look at hitherto ignored power-saving features of these devices.
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Fast Cortex-M3 based microcontroller for factory automation
The industrial environment is setting an ever-increasing challenge to developers of embedded controls, mainly driven by increasing complexity and more demanding requirements. To address these challenges, STMicroelectronics has released the STM32-F2 ...
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Microcontroller with ARM Cortex-M0 in industrial applications
Even in industrial applications there is a need for higher performance at a lower price. With the ARM Cortex-M0 core, which made its debut in the LPC1100 microcontroller series from NXP Semiconductors, both demands can be reconciled.
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The growing importance of FPGAs in video camera and display solutions
Several important trends in both the video camera and display markets are driving the increased complexity of video systems. This article highlights how FPGAs can overcome many of the challenges posed by this complexity.
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PowerTrench MOSFETs meet the challenge for greater power density
While MOSFET technologies and cell structure have seen dramatic innovations through the years, the vertical cell structure of MOSFET can be classified into three structure types: planar, trench and lateral. Among the three structures, trench-gated M...
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Stellaris ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers Guide
Stellaris is the industry’s leading family of robust, real-time microcontrollers (MCUs) based on the revolutionary ARM Cortex™-M series MCU technology. This guide covers more than 270 ARM Cortex-M3 and M4F MCUs delivering connectivity, high-perf...
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Consumer Medical Applications Guide
The Consumer and Portable Medical Guide from TI features technical and product information including system block diagrams, selection tables and design tools for a variety of medical applications.
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ARM processor and FPGA fabric in 28-nm single-chip solution
This article describes in detail the new 28-nm FPGA families Cyclone V SOC and Arria V SOC, which include hardened IC blocks to simplify deployment.
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Consumer Medical Applications Guide
The Consumer and Portable Medical Guide from TI features technical and product information including system block diagrams, selection tables and design tools for a variety of medical applications such as heart rate and fitness monitoring systems, bl...
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Stellaris ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers Guide
Stellaris is the industry’s leading family of robust, real-time microcontrollers (MCUs) based on the revolutionary ARM Cortex™-M series MCU technology. This guide covers more than 270 ARM Cortex-M3 and M4F MCUs delivering connectivity, high-perf...
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General-purpose graphics processing units deliver new capabilities
This article reviews factors driving GPGPU adoption, describes AMD and NVIDIA GPGPU architectures, and compares some competing parallel processing alternatives. From a programming perspective, the reader is introduced to key concepts behind heteroge...
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Make-It Liberating: Freeing people to live a fuller, healthier life
This article shows how a semiconductor manufacturer can support medical devices with MCUs which are ideally suited for this kind of application, highlighting the recently announced 90 nanometer Kinetis K50 microcontroller family from Freescale, whic...
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Intelligent functional safety concept saves design time and costs
The PRO-SIL SafeTCore package is a complete solution, including optimized semiconductors like the TriCore and XC2300 microcontrollers, safety and test software libraries, services and related documentation, and paves the way to a successful function...
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Microstepping motor drive with novel voltage-mode control system
This article introduces a motor controller chip implementing the motor-control algorithms in hardware, simplifying the software design by requiring only high-level motion commands from the application microcontroller. This frees microcontroller reso...
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Microcontrollers with safety features aid medical device development
This article describes in detail the wide range of safety features implemented in the RX210 family, allowing designers to create new strategies, using on-chip hardware, to increase both system safety and reliability.
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Design considerations for ruggedizing embedded systems
This article uses a recent case study from Psion, developer of rugged mobile field devices, to highlight design requirements to create a durable, high-performance and low-power portable device with on-the-job connectivity and real-time data transfer...
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LED backlit TFT LCDs - bright in daylight, dimmed at night
High brightness LED backlit TFT LCDs combine high performance and extensive brightness control to ensure that displays remain perfectly easy to read under all ambient light conditions - an absolute must for certain applications.
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Orthogonal backplane technology offers optimal signal integrity
This article describes the new orthogonal and orthogonal direct backplane connector technology and its advantages for embedded systems, allowing OEMs to place more system boards within a compact mechanical chassis.
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Digital instrumentation in the industrial and consumer sectors
Interactive devices need the right control and display elements to be operated efficiently. The classic user interface with its switches, buttons, rotating and adjusting wheels, indicators, LEDs or segment displays is now being superseded by digital...
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Selecting the right graphics technology for embedded systems
Embedded processors now integrate a wide variety of graphics processing units, giving developers a growing array of choice to meet their needs without any overkill. Nowadays there are more technology options than OpenGL.


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