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 Rich Nowakowski, product marketing manager in TI’s power management group. Increasing energy efficiency and decreasing solution size seem diametrically opposed in many cases. Besides a cooler and more compact circuit board, mean time between failures (MTBF) can be improved. This article, recently published in Wireless Design & Development, explores several methods to improve efficiency and [...]
TI is a leader in power management, embedded processors, and sensors which all are important contributors to increasing the efficiency of making various end equipments more efficient. The stimulus package recently enacted in the United States provides direct funding and tax incentives to accelerate deployment of clean and energy efficient technologies both in federal government [...]
With the ever increasing need for additional energy, oil and natural gas will play a major role in supplying the world’s needs for many years to come. High-temperature electronics are crucial to efficiently find and extract those resources. Texas Instruments recently introduced analog and power management devices for oil and gas downhole drilling equipment that [...]
Innovations in the semiconductor industry continue to lead to improvements in energy efficiency, saving the equivalent of 775 billion kilowatt hours per year as of 2006 – the equivalent of 180 large electric power generating plants. Today, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is hosting a media roundtable in New York City focused on the impact of [...]
This week TI showcased new innovations in Power Management and Energy Efficiency at the 24th annual Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) in Washington, DC. The APEC 2009 conference focuses on a broad range of topics in the use, design, manufacturing and marketing of all kinds of power electronics equipment. TI demonstrated six technological improvements in [...]
Data centers are an important and growing industry. According to a report by the Department of Energy, power demand is growing by about 12% each year. TI’s semiconductor technology goes into high-end servers that are used to manage the power in a data center more efficiently.
Today TI announced the acquisition of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based CICLON [...]