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IC Tackles Interface Idiosyncrasies of Biological-/Chemical-Sensing Probes
Targeted at electrode arrays used in wet-chemistry potentiostat configurations, the ADuCM355 provides current/voltage management and sensing plus advanced DSP and analytics. Providing the interface...
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Reducing EMI Radiated Emissions with TI Smart Gate Drive
Smart Gate Drive technology in TI motor drivers helps customers solve their radiated EMI issues without costly board revisions or extra test time.IntroductionRadiated emissions testing for...
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Reduce Motor Drive BOM and PCB Area with TI Smart Gate Drive
TI's Smart Gate Drive features eliminate the need for external components while helping designers meet their EMI, robustness, and performance goals.IntroductionIn an ideal world, gate drivers would...
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Motor Drive Protection with TI Smart Gate Drive
TI's Smart Gate Drive technology provides protection against MOSFET failures through the TDRIVE state machine making the system more robust and efficient while driving the external power...
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Smart Gate Drive Video
As the most intelligent and highly integrated gate drive technology, TI's Smart Gate Drive is easy to use, offers system cost savings, and provides reliable protection. Learn more about these benefits...
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Hybrid Cascodes Simplify SiC Adoption in Popular Power Circuits
Hybrid-cascode power transistors offer a convenient upgrade path from standard power MOSFETs and IGBTs when trying to leverage the performance advantages of wide-bandgap semiconductors.Wide-bandgap...
View ArticlePrecision Op Amps Yield High-Accuracy Circuits (.PDF Download)
The ordinary modern IC op amp is fully applicable to most standard amplifier configurations. Error sources are small and may be of no concern, or one can easily compensate for them. Yet there are some...
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Precision Op Amps Yield High-Accuracy Circuits
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Special op amps are available to deal with drift, high- and low-input voltages, noise, and error sources in critical applications such as medical...
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Selecting Film or Electrolytic Capacitors for Power-Conversion Circuits
Capacitors can provide vital ride-through (or hold-up) energy or mitigate ripple and noise in power-conversion circuits. Choosing the right type can profoundly affect a system’s overall size, cost, and...
View ArticleThe High-Performance RF MEMS Switch Has Arrived (.PDF Download)
It’s been obvious for decades that the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switch could potentially replace PIN diode, mechanical, FET, and other types of switches in a broad swath of RF and...
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The High-Performance RF MEMS Switch Has Arrived
Sponsored by Digi-Key and Analog Devices: After years of trials and tribulations from all corners of the industry to nail down the technology, two MEMS SP4T switches overcome those nagging RF...
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Regulator Review: Wring the Best Performance Out of Your LDO (.PDF Download)
A low-dropout (LDO) regulator is a simple, inexpensive way to generate a regulated output voltage from a higher-voltage input. It’s inherently low-noise because it has no switching transients, and it...
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Regulator Review: Wring the Best Performance Out of Your LDO
Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Follow these practical steps to augment the efficiency of this fundamental building block in circuit design.Download this article in PDF format.A low-dropout (LDO)...
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A Closer Look at the Common Emitter Amplifier and Emitter Follower
Usually targeted at audio applications, these circuit blocks find homes in all types of designs. Here’s a quick study of their operation and properties. Two of the most often used amplifier building...
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Optoelectronic Oscillators Charge mmWave Synthesizers
These X- and K-band synthesizers apply optoelectronic technology to achieve high levels of frequency stability with reduced phase noise.Download this article in PDF format.Reducing noise in...
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Can’t Afford an Atomic Clock? Get a Molecular One!
Using the THz-range resonance of a molecule rather than of atoms led to the development of a clock with nearly the performance of atomic clocks but fabricated as an IC. Atomic clocks based on...
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15 Preparation Ideas for Your Next IoT Edge Project
Based on actual knowledge gained from other successful IoT edge device projects.Before starting your IoT edge device development process, it is wise to spend time preparing for your new project....
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How to Create an IoT Edge System Prototype
Once a successful proof-of-concept has been established, what’s next?The day after creating a proof-of-concept of your custom IC, you might ask “Now what do we do?” It is time to make your idea real...
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Capacitor Basics and Their Uses in Power Applications
Capacitors play key roles in the design of filters, amplifiers, power supplies and many additional circuits. Here's a brief guide to the different types and the applications they're best suited for.Out...
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TI Precision Labs - ADCs: DC Specifications
This video highlights the key DC specifications of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) including input capacitance, leakage current, input impedance, reference voltage range, INL, and...
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