A controller area network (CAN) is ideally suited to the many high-level industrial protocols embracing CAN and ISO-11898:1993 as their physical layer. Its cost, performance, and upgradeability provid
The IEEE standard boundary scan framework and four-wire serial testablity are having a positive impact on testing all levels of electronic assembly. The two form a basis from which other techniques are developed to facilitate testing of chips and systems. This document shows how existing architectures can be modified to conform to IEEE 1149.1 architecture. A boundary BIST approach is described and
Texas Instruments (TI?) announces the industry?s first logic family to achieve maximum propagation delays of less than 2 ns at 2.5 V. TI?s next-generation logic is the Advanced Very-low-voltage CMOS (AVC) family. Although optimized for 2.5-V systems AVC logic supports mixed-voltage systems because it is compatible with 3.3-V and 1.8-V devices. The AVC family features TI?s Dynamic Output Control (
This application report summarizes the key differences between the enhanced direct memory access (EDMA3) used on C64x+™ DSP devices and the EDMA2 used on TMS320C64x™ DSP devices, and provi
The purpose of this application report is to present the flow the environment settings and TI requirements used to perform the analysis of critical power nets of a platform using an application processor. The Power Delivery Network (PDN) performance is measured by extracting and analyzing three printed circuit board (PCB) parameters: DC resistivity capacitor loop inductance and broadband target
Today, the brains of telecom and datacom systems - i.e., microprocessors, DSPs, ASICs, and programmable logic - are evolving to ever-lower operating voltages. Typical ICs run at supply levels of 3.3 V
A bootloader enables field updates of application firmware. A controller area network (CAN) bootloader enables firmware updates over the CAN bus. The CAN bootloader described in this application report is based on the Hercules™ ARM® Cortex™-R4 microcontroller. This application report describes the CAN protocol used in the bootloader and details each supported command.
This application report serves as a reference for engineers designing with Xilinix <TM> 2.5-V and 1.8-V Virtex <TM> multivoltage FPGA products. It provides basic information on the issues facing engin
This application report implements a Texas Instruments 4-wire touch screen controller (TSC) to control an 8-wire touch screen and discusses features and performances for such applications. Texas In
The Texas Instruments family of audio converters can be used in various multichip configurations in order to realize multichannel processing using the time-division multiplexing (TDM) feature. Using a
TPS54040, TPS54060, TPS54140, TPS54160, TPS54040A, TPS54060A, TPS54140A, TPS54160A Differences between the TPS54x40, TPS54x60 and the TPS54x40A, TPS54x60A
Many servo applications require absolute position information as feedback. This document describes how the encoder count can be processed to obtain absolute position on the TMS320C240. The document in
Ultrasonic flow meters are gaining wide usage in commercial industrial and medical applications. Major benefits of utilizing this type of flowmeter are higher accuracy low maintenance (no moving parts) non-invasive flow measurement and the ability to regularly diagnose health of the meter. This application note is intended as an introduction to ultrasonic time-of-flight (TO
The optocoupler is often used in pulse-width-modulated power converters to transmit an error signal across an isolation boundary. This error signal is used on the primary side to close the control loop. This application note describes a typical optocoupler feedback scheme using the UC3965 Precision Reference with Low-Offset Error Amplifier and a Siemens Optoelectronics IL207 optocoupler. The discu