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Low-power AI processors support dual-screen displays, small-size HMI apps

June 10, 2022 By Redding Traiger

Texas Instruments introduced new Sitara AM62 processors that help expand edge artificial intelligence (AI) processing into next-generation applications. The low-power design of the new processors enables support for dual-screen displays and small-size human-machine interface (HMI) applications. Engineers can meet form-factor requirements and deploy smart designs anywhere with power-efficient processors. TI will showcase the new AM62 […]

Filed Under: Applications, Artificial intelligence, Connectivity, Medical, Wireless Tagged With: texas instruments

Teardown: D7 robot vacuum from Neato Robotics

September 1, 2021 By Lee Teschler

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The D7 robot vacuum from Neato Robotics in California boasts a lot of navigational features such as zone cleaning, no-go lines, and floor plan mapping. We tore down a D7 to see how these features are implemented and to get a close look at the lidar unit that helps the bot find its way around. […]

Filed Under: Applications, FAQ, Featured, IoT, Robotics/Drones Tagged With: FAQ, texas instruments

High-performance MCUs offer increased competing capability of traditional, Flash-based devices

July 12, 2021 By Redding Traiger

Texas Instruments introduced a new high-performance microcontroller (MCU) portfolio that advances real-time control, networking, and analytics applications at the edge. With new Sitara AM2x MCUs, engineers can achieve 10 times the computing capability of traditional, flash-based MCUs. This high-performance portfolio closes the growing gap between today’s MCUs and processors, enabling designers to push the limits […]

Filed Under: Applications, Automotive, Development Kits, Hardware, Industrial, microcontroller, Products, Robotics/Drones, Security, Tools Tagged With: texas instruments

Teardown: The Garmin Forerunner 220 sport watch and heart monitor

March 9, 2017 By Lee Teschler

watch housing and PCB

Chest-mounted electronics do a more accurate job of counting heart beats than do optical sensors on the wrist. That’s one of the conclusions to come out of a close look at this sport watch aimed at runners. Leland Teschler Executive Editor A sport watch from Garmin called the Forerunner 220 is basically a runner’s watch […]

Filed Under: Applications, Consumer Electronics, Featured, IoT Tagged With: EKG, forerunner, garmin, linear technology, macronix, mediatek, nordic, nxp, pericom, texas instruments

First 4-20 mA DAC to incorporate buck/boost converter operates from a single supply

March 8, 2017 By Lee Teschler

DAC8775

The 16-bit digital-to-analog converter DAC8775 operates from a single, wide 12- to 36-V power rail, leveraging an integrated buck/boost converter to generate all of the required internal power supplies. Devised by Texas Instruments, the four-channel DAC8775 addresses the trend in factory automation and process control equipment toward input/output (I/O) modules that must squeeze more channels […]

Filed Under: 16-bit, Products Tagged With: DAC8775, digital analog converter, texas instruments

Teardown: Inside a cable modem

September 30, 2016 By Lee Teschler

The device which brings cable TV and high-speed internet into homes has a simple design but sports a couple of tricky secrets. Lee Teschler Executive Editor If you’ve got broadband internet from a cable company, it comes into your house through a cable modem. Estimates are that some $8.6 billion-worth of cable modems will be […]

Filed Under: Consumer Electronics, Embedded, Teardowns Tagged With: broadcom, EPCOS, micrel, texas instruments, unisonic

Teardown: Inside the Fitbit Charge

September 27, 2016 By Lee Teschler

charge minus plastic case

Here’s a look at the electronics and sensors deployed inside a widely used fitness watch. Leland Teschler Executive Editor The fitness tracking firm Fitbit says it sold something over 21 million fitness watches last year. To get an idea of how fitness watches work their magic, we tore down one of the more popular fitness […]

Filed Under: Applications, Consumer Electronics Tagged With: Fitbit, jinlong machinery, measurement specialties, STM Microsystems, texas instruments

The difference between microprocessors and application processors

August 9, 2016 By Lee Teschler

apple application processor

Sometimes terminology changes faster than the technology it applies to. That’s arguably the case for the term application processor. Specifically, an application processor is a special kind of microprocessor. The application processor moniker came out of the cellular industry. In a mobile device, it refers to a chip used for the primary processing of cellular […]

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