Design Guides
Collection of articles to help you design better embedded systems.
Reference Design For An NFC Based Platform For Measuring Temperature And Light
The RF430FRL152H is a reference design that provides a platform to measure light and temperature using NFC Sensor Interface Transponder.
The RF430FRL152H reference design provides...
Reference Design For A Capacitive Proximity Detector
Do you want to control your music or lighting with just a wave of your hand? This reference design from Texas Instruments (TI) will...
Reference Design For A High Fidelity Headphone Amplifier
Reference design for an audiophile quality headphone amplifier providing high-power high-fidelity amplification for current output audio DACs (digital to analog converters)
Are you an audiophile...
Reference Design For A Smart Real-Time Vehicle Tracking System
Reference design for a smart vehicle tracking system based on GPS/GSM/GPRS. The reference design can predict accidents and car burglaries and share multiple data...
Reference Design Of An Automotive Cooling Fans
Reference design for a low-cost development and evaluation platform targeted to drive a three-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous (PMSM) or Brushless DC (BLDC) automotive cooling...
Reference Design Of A 48V Buck Converter for Automotive Systems
A 48V DC/DC step down converter for harsh automotive applications.
Vehicles are getting more advanced and come featured packed. Today’s vehicle offers higher safety, better...
Reference Design for a high-end gas cooker
Reference design for a high-end gas stove that can improve the safety and convenience of the user.
Gas stoves are one of the most essential...
Reference Design For An Automotive Ultrasonic Fluid Level Monitor
Reference design for an automotive ultrasonic fluid level monitor which employs a non-intrusive technique to accurately measure the liquid even in harsh/enclosed environments.
TIDA-00322 is...
Reference Design For Touch Buttons With Haptic Feedback
A reference design is for a touch-based metal button which uses an inductance-to-digital converter technology to provide high-precision sense button presses on a metal...
Reference Design For A Fast Charger with MaxCharge for Power Bank
Reference design for a power bank with a fast charger of 5A along with MaxCharge and 3.1A boost operation.
Since the usage of smartphones has...
Reference Design For An Automotive BMS
Reference design for a battery management system suitable for high-voltage automotive batteries.
With the advancement in lithium-ion battery technologies, the future is all-electric automobiles. But...
Reference Design For Dimmable LED Driver for Automotive Lighting
Reference design for a pulse width modulation (PWM) based dimming LED driver for front or tail LED lights of a vehicle.
Electric vehicles run on...
Reference Design For An Automotive Tail Light
Reference design for an automotive LED tail light driver that can be controlled either directly in stand-alone mode or from a phone, tablet, or...
Reference Design For Automotive Side Mirrors Motor Control
Reference design by Texas Instruments (TI) for a simple motor driver for power folding side mirrors for automobiles.
Rear view mirror and side mirrors are...
Reference Design For A CO Detector
Reference design for a robust electrochemical carbon monoxide detector.
Carbon monoxide is a dangerous gas that can be lethal for humans or animals. Therefore, gas...
Reference Design For A Smart Body Fat Scale
Reference design for a smart body fat scale that can display body weight, body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage and body impedance.
Are you...
Reference Design For An Oxygen Concentrator
Reference design for an open-source oxygen concentrator based on molecular sieve and pressure swing adsorption technique.
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world in many ways,...
Via Hole Types And Their Use In PCBs
The importance of via holes cannot be ignored by the designers of multi-layered PCBs. This article describes various types of via holes and how...