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 [...]
Electronic energy meters have fostered their way into the market the last decade replacing conventional electromechanical meters. This has led to increased accuracy and features, reduced cost and size, and an opportunity to get smart. Energy measurement in its purest form, is just a mathematical sum of products of voltage and current. Just like any [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today, TI announced a solution that combines its ultra-low power technology with the ability to send information wirelessly with a low power TI radio frequency (RF) transceiver - all on one tiny chip. The new CC430 technology platform will bring intelligence to a range of applications in which low power, small size and wireless connectivity [...]
Hi, I’m Adrian Valenzuela, MSP430 engineer at TI. I’m responsible for many of our ultra low power microcontroller products and tools and I’m excited about the discussion going on around energy harvesting. Energy harvesting at a macro level has been around for a while - just take a look at the solar panels across the country [...]