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 [...]
“Wireless technology is getting a lot of attention, check out the buzz on Fast Company.”
Wireless power has been around for a long time and has found applications in many areas over time. In the industrial area, induction heating, for instance, has enabled a practical and efficient way to melt large amounts of metals in a manufacturing environment. In the consumer area, it has been successfully for many years to [...]
Hi, I’m Bill Krenik, senior technologist in TI’s analog technology group. Now that wireless handsets are getting quite complex, I’m very interested in technologies that conserve handset power. Let’s face it, once the battery is dead, the handset moves from “high utility” device to “dead weight” you carry around. To deliver compelling images, video, graphics, [...]