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 [...]
With energy usage top of mind, who hasn’t been exposed to commercials stating “the energy produced buy the sun in one minute equals the amount used by the entire population of the planet for one year,” or a similar, hard to define claim. The truth is there’s an incredible amount of energy out there for [...]
Capturing the energy from the sun and transferring it to electrical or thermal energy can be used to its fullest potential only if it can be stored. On a cloudy or rainy day or at night, energy needs to be provided to the consumer at any given time or on a continual basis. For this, [...]
Have you ever thought about how a solar cell functions and operates? Its function is quite simple: converting sunlight to electricity. Its operation is quite rudimentary. Solar cell is a semiconductor. The primary characteristic of a semiconductor is the presence of a band-gap. This band-gap has a finite energy. In a simplistic view, when sunlight [...]
This week at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in Silicon Valley, CA, TI will showcase the latest in green/energy efficient engineering with informative sessions on energy harvesting and LED lighting.
“Batteryless Energy Harvesting in Embedded System Design (ESC-305)” – Adrian Valenzuela, Product Marketing Engineer
“A Single Controller-based LED Lighting System (ESC-465)” – Hrishikesh Nene, C2000 Applications [...]
This week, TI introduced four new development tools which will help design engineers create energy-efficient and ultra-low power applications quickly and easily. Three new C2000 tools offer enhanced functionality for energy-efficient applications, such as solar inverters and LED lighting, while the new MSP430 tool helps drive low power applications, such as energy harvesting, wireless sensing and [...]
New ways to harvest energy through light, vibrations, heat and motion are emerging to power sensor networks that can detect, report and monitor conditions without the need for wires or batteries.
Today, TI announced a new solar energy harvesting kit that converts low-level ambient light into power for various applications. Developers can now build self-powered, [...]
How about wearing a jacket that could power your cell phone? Well, this may soon become a reality and not something just seen in a comic book or in a futuristic movie. Organic solar materials, woven into your jacket, may be the solution. Organic solar, also called thin-film plastics, which has been long considered promising [...]
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion on addressing the improvement of energy efficiency in the telecom sector.
The article posted in the Technology Quarterly from the December 6th issue of The Economist titled “How Green is your network?” discusses key problem areas in telecom where challenges lie towards reducing carbon footprint.
Keeping the networks running, [...]
I recently read a story on Green Inc. on researchers who are working on the Bionic Energy Harvester, a knee brace that generates power from walking. In the article, the author points out that even though only a small percentage of young people would have use for the device, those users would be excited to [...]