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Texas Instruments wins coveted 2022 LEAP Award

October 18, 2022 By Aimee Kalnoskas

Texas Instruments took home the gold medal in the recently completed 2022 Leap Awards. The LEAP Awards celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. Texas Instruments won in the Sensors and Switches category covering equipment feedback devices such as mechanical switches and photoelectric, proximity, reel, and hall-effect sensors. Submissions also […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: LEAP, Texas Instruments

How can you win $100,000 with a sensing technology idea?

September 21, 2017 By Randy Frank

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If you are a college student or student team with an idea on how to implement sensing and/or electronics technology to provide an innovative product or problem solution, you should enter the 2018 ASU Innovation Open (ASUio). The 2018 ASU Innovation Open (ASUio) is a multi-round competition that supports student ventures from across the United […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) Tagged With: Arizona State University, ASU, Avnet, InvenSense, Rigado, Somatic Labs, TDK, Texas Instruments

Sensor Ball Demos Several Sensors

July 13, 2016 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2016, Peggy Liska, product marketing engineer at Texas Instruments describes the enabling technologies and sensors in TI’s Sensor Ball. For more information, click: MPS 430 and ADS7042 ADC.

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Featured, Temperature Tagged With: Texas Instruments

Integrated Resolver Sensor Interface Boasts Smaller, Safer and More Accurate Rotary Position Sensing

June 24, 2016 By Randy Frank

Promoted as the industry’s first resolver sensor interface with an integrated power supply, exciter amplifier and functional safety features, Texas Instruments’ PGA411-Q1 resolver-to-digital converter’s architecture offers designers a lot from a 64-pin thermally enhanced thin quad flat pack (HTQFP) PowerPAD package. The high level of integration means the IC is capable of simultaneously exciting the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Resolver Tagged With: Texas Instruments

A Differential Inductive Switch for Sensing

June 14, 2016 By Randy Frank

In this Frank Talk about Sensors, Randy Frank talks to Tarig Chang and Luke Lapointe from Texas Instruments about “A Differential Inductive Switch for Sensing.” For more information about Texas Instruments’ LDC0851 Differential Inductive Switch, click here.

Filed Under: Featured, Frank Talk, Inductive Tagged With: Texas Instruments

Contactless Sensing with Magnet-Free Differential Inductive Design

May 16, 2016 By Randy Frank

Contactless sensing for buttons, knobs, and door open/close detection, as well as speed and direction without requiring a magnet can be a big plus in many designs. Other capabilities simply make the design decision easier. Called the industry’s first differential inductive switch, Texas instruments’ LDC0851 has a dual-coil architecture that performs contactless sensing and automatically […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inductive Tagged With: Texas Instruments

Microcontrollers Enable Simple Interfacing of Position Sensors in Industrial Drive Controls

November 25, 2015 By Randy Frank

Interfacing position sensors in industrial servo and AC inverter drives can be challenging. With its TMS320F28379D and TMS320F28379S microcontrollers (MCUs), an expansion to its C2000™ Delfino™ MCUs, and DesignDRIVE Position Manager technology, Texas Instruments has addressed the challenges. The design approach supports both digital and analog position sensors for industrial applications. By completing the decode […]

Filed Under: Position Tagged With: Texas Instruments, TI

Noise-Immune Capacitive Sensing

October 21, 2015 By Randy Frank

Electrical noise source such as radios, power supplies, lights and motors can pose serious problems for capacitive sensors. To combat these problems, Texas Instruments (TI) FDC2214 capacitive sensing integrated circuit (IC) family offers 60x better performance in the presence of noise compared to existing capacitive-sensing solutions. The IC’s have a unique narrow-band architecture that eliminates […]

Filed Under: Capacitive, Featured Tagged With: Texas Instruments, TI

Integrated Fluxgate Sensor Operates on 3.3V

August 19, 2015 By Randy Frank

Among other integrated capabilities, Texas Instruments DRV421 magnetic sensing IC operates from 3.3V supply to simplify interfacing to ADCs on low-power microcontrollers. Target applications include magnetic closed-loop current sensing in motor controls, renewable energy, battery chargers and power monitoring. The 4-mm-by-4-mm quad flat no-lead (QFN) packaged IC contains a fully integrated fluxgate sensor and compensation […]

Filed Under: Featured, Magnetic sensor Tagged With: Texas Instruments

Analog Front End Simplifies Ultrasonic Sensing

July 27, 2015 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2015 in Long Beach, CA, an application expert from Texas Instruments demonstrates ultrasonic sensing and time of flight technology using the company’s TDC1000 ultrasonic analog front end (AFE), and C2000 for water level detection. For more information about the TDC1000 AFE, click here.

Filed Under: Featured, Ultrasonic Level Sensor Tagged With: Texas Instruments

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