Articles – Page 471

Maximizing the Power of ARM with DSP

November 17, 2009

Texas Instruments’ (TI) Integra™ DSP+ARM devices combine a digital signal processor (DSP) and an ARM® processor, enabling developers to create applications best suited for executing a combination of signal processing tasks and microprocessor (MPU) tasks. This paper reviews the benefits of combining ARM processing with DSP processing in a single chip, including increased real-time performance, improved system flexibility and reduced system cost and power. Integra DSP+ARM processors are useful for applications such as power protection systems, industrial control, machine vision and … Read More → "Maximizing the Power of ARM with DSP"

Serial Wire Debug — Ideal for Microcontrollers

by Dick Selwood

November 17, 2009

Serial-wire brings robust debugging capability to low-cost micorocontrollers.

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C2000™ MCU Motor Control Primer

by Dick Selwood

November 17, 2009

There is a significant demand for well-equipped digital motor control (DMC) platforms to educate the next generation of engineers. In this users guide, a number of introductory-level digital motor control methodologies and laboratory tools are presented. These tools help engineers learn how to easily construct their own systems using TI provided device drivers, APIs, utilities, and libraries. Also learn about TI’s motor control developer’s kits, software framework, and DMC library. These documents provide a modular development strategy which allows the user to experiment incrementally from a basic … Read More → "C2000™ MCU Motor Control Primer"

AM389x Sitara™ ARM® Microprocessors

by Dick Selwood

November 17, 2009

Texas Instruments expands its portfolio of industry-leading Sitara™ ARM microprocessors (MPUs) with new AM389x devices that dramatically boost performance and integration.

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Power management solutions for Stellaris® ARM® Cortex™-M3 MCUs

by Dick Selwood

November 17, 2009

TI’s Stellaris is the industry’s leading family of robust, real-time microcontrollers based on the revolutionary Cortex™-M3 technology from ARM. Depending on system constraints TI offers optimized products to power Stellaris MCU-based systems.

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Power management solutions for ultra-low-power 16-bit MSP430™ MCUs

by Dick Selwood

November 17, 2009

TI’s MSP430 family of ultra-low-power MCUs consists of several devices featuring different sets of peripherals targeted for various applications. Depending on system constraints TI offers optimized products to power MSP430 MCU-based systems.

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Power Management for Altera® FPGAs and CPLD Quick Reference Guide

by Dick Selwood

November 17, 2009

Texas Instruments works closely with Altera® to recommend the best power solutions for a wide variety of end-equipment applications. TI’s diverse power management portfolio adequately supports the power requirements for Altera’s FPGA and CPLD families.

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Implementing the Top Five Control-Path Applications with Low-Cost, Low-Power CPLDs

by Bryon Moyer

November 17, 2009

Since their introduction in the mid-1980s and across all end markets, CPLDs have been design engineers’ favorite choice for control path applications. Taking into account today’s severe pressure to lower costs and power consumption, this white paper examines how Altera® MAX® V CPLDs provide solutions for the top five control-path applications.

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Implementing PCI Express Bridging Solutions in an FPGA

by Kevin Morris

November 17, 2009

Like its predecessor, the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), PCI Express is becoming a ubiquitous system interface. Unlike PCI, PCI Express adopts a Serializer/Deserializer (SERDES) interface to provide users with the scalability required for future applications. As system bandwidths increase, more applications are moving to SERDES-based interfaces like PCI Express. In the past, ASICs or ASSPs typically have been used to implement next generation interface solutions. ASICs and ASSPs were popular choices because they provided a low cost, low power design solution. However, several new FPGAs families now … Read More → "Implementing PCI Express Bridging Solutions in an FPGA"

Reducing Cost and Power in Consumer Applications Using PLDs

by Kevin Morris

November 17, 2009

The need to respond to changing market standards in a compressed time to market window has led to the widespread use of programmable logic devices (PLDs) in a broad range of consumer applications. While development of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and application specific standard parts (ASSPs) requires high non-recurring engineering charges, PLDs are standard off-the-shelf parts that can be customized for different applications using flexible software tools. Unlike ASICs and ASSPs, PLDs do not require long lead times: their functionality can be changed at any time to … Read More → "Reducing Cost and Power in Consumer Applications Using PLDs"