Texas Instruments has announced a 9 x 9mm controller IC for the DLP472TP 4K (3,840 x 2,160, UHD) digital micromirror device that it revealed recently. Describing the controller, DLPC8445, as “90% smaller than the previous generation”, the company said that it can be used in lifestyle and gaming projectors “that achieve sub-millisecond display latency, matching or exceeding the world’s most ...
Texas Instruments has used integrated moulded magnetics to shrink the size of six multi-amp dc-dc converters – five buck types and one boost. The shrunk versions are branded ‘MagPack’ by the company, which will not reveal details of the construction except to say that the control IC and inductor coil are stacked before magnetic material for the inductor is over-moulded ...
TI updated the LM339 family of comparators a few years ago, when it moved them from a 150mm wafer manufacturing process to 300mm high-voltage junction-isolated process. These comparators, which come in quad, dual and single versions, were initially released 50 years ago with such a good design – they were the first ‘single-rail’ types which included the 0V rail in ...
Texas Instruments and Delta Electronics are to collaborate on the development of on-board chargers and other electric vehicle power electronics. As part of this, they have set up a joint laboratory in Pingzhen, Taiwan. “Having been in Taiwan for 55 years, coupled with decades of experience in automotive power management, TI has built a strong connection with the local automotive ...
Texas Instruments introduced a 450V intelligent power module that includes a GaN three-phase bridge for motors up to 250W. Called DRV7308, it can stand-off 650V and handle pulses up to 5A. Inside its 12 x 12mm QFN package and six 205mΩ hemts (at 25°C ambient), drivers and protection component, and it is capable of implementing inverters with >99% efficiency, according ...
Texas Instruments is planning a pair of precision current monitors that can measure ±50A over -4 to 110V. They are the standard INA791B (right) and the PWM residue rejecting INA790B (below). “High-precision measurements are enabled by matching the shunt resistor value and the current-sensing amplifier gain across temperature,” according to TI. “Enhanced PWM rejection reduces the effect of common-mode transients ...
Texas Instruments has turned to 45nm RF CMOS process to squeeze a 60GHz radar, including antenna, into an 11 x 6.7mm package only 0.8mm tall. IWRL6432AOP is an FMCW radar that works over 57 to 63.9GHz and at distances up to 25m. It includes: an RF and analogue front-end, an Arm Cortex-M3 processor to configure, control and calibrate the front-end, ...
There's a new devboard in town: welcome the BeagleBoard.org BeagleY-AI, which promises to add "4 TOP/S of Edge AI acceleration to a fan-less computing platform".
The BeagleBoard organisation has introduced a 4Top/s-capable AI processor in Raspberry Pi form factor, built around a Texas Instruments AM67A vision processor. Called a link to suitable Debian XFCE Linux distribution, it “AM67A features a quad-core 64bit Arm CPU subsystem, two general-purpose DSPs and matrix-multiply-accelerators, GPU, vision and deep learning accelerators, and multiple Arm Cortex-R5 cores for low-latency GPIO control”, ...
NASA, Texas Instruments and others in the space industry have created a qualification standard for using plastic packaged ICs in space: Qualified Manufacturers List Class P – QML Class P. “QML Class P was designed in league with NASA and other industry experts as a plastic packaging standard for space electronic,” TI told Electronics Weekly. The standard is based on ...
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