There is an interesting emerging angle to the green movement known as the cradle to cradle concept. The concept is that all products exist in a never ending cycle — “birth to rebirth” not “birth to death” — and waste is minimized or eliminated at every step. Our own Debbie Greenstreet, marketing manager for TI’s wireless [...]
There are many museums lining the mall in Washington D.C. These museums focus on history. For the past two weeks a museum of the future was placed on the mall as the Solar Decathlon competition took place. It was a village like no other – twenty student designed and built solar homes all striving to [...]
The LED Reference Design Cookbook contains 17 general, backlight and automotive reference designs. The Cookbook is designed to provide engineers with a valuable tool to help solve their lighting design needs. Customers seeking the latest in innovative and affordable LED lighting solutions can benefit from TI’s broad product portfolio of AC/DC, DC/DC, LED drivers, power [...]
I’m here at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. If you ask any student to point to the silicon content in their house they will immediately point to their solar array. Very few will point to the dozens of inverters, power supplies, TV’s, computers, ipods, horizontal axis washers, LED lights, or other items that are [...]
TI is on-site today as a returning sponsor at the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington DC. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Solar Decathlon brings together 20 university teams from across the globe in a competition to design, build and operate the most energy-efficient and attractive solar-powered home. Tomorrow marks the first official [...]
Starting tomorrow in the U.S., TI will host MCU Day, its largest worldwide training event to be held around the world at more than 150 locations. This free, one-day technical training event will explore TI’s broad MCU portfolio, including MSP430™ ultra-low power MCUs, C2000™ real-time MCUs and ARM® Cortex-M3-based Stellaris® MCUs as well as ARM9-based [...]
Professor Soo-Young Park and his team at the Seoul National University in Korea successfully developed a white LED with a color rendering index (CRI) closer to daylight than current white LEDs.
The development parallels the ongoing efforts by LED manufacturers who continue investing in the improvement of luminous efficiency, lifetime and the quality of light as [...]
Hello, I’m Kanika Carver, Marketing Manager for TI’s OMAP-L1x/C674x products. Over the past several months, we have been in discussions with customers who are developing Power Protection Systems in countries like China, Europe, India and even here in the U.S. A Power Protection System is a remote device located outside of a building that monitors [...]
Power factor correction (PFC) results in greater power grid efficiency because it enables systems to smooth out the power they draw. This results in systems only drawing the power they need, reducing the occurence of unexpected spikes. Consequently, power companies do not need to produce extra power to compensate for sudden spikes. For this reason, PFC is becoming a [...]
Today TI announced that it is sponsoring this year’s Solar Decathlon, to be held in Washington D.C. October 9-18. Similarly to 2007, 20 university teams are competing in the 2009 event and I’m sure each and every team is hacking their way through home construction, product acquisition and a myriad of design changes as problems [...]