Design Guides
Collection of articles to help you design better embedded systems.
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...
Reference Design Of An Automotive 400-V to 12-V Unidirectional Converter
Reference design for an automotive 400-V battery to 12 V, 3.6-kW DC/DC converter.
Most new Electric Vehicles (EVs) have high-voltage battery packs, but the auxiliary...
Reference Design For ECG, SpO2, PTT and Heart Rate Monitor
Reference design for a simple wearable that can monitor multiple health parameters including heart rate, ECG, SpO2, and PTT.
After 2019, since Covid happened, everyone...
Reference Design For A Bluetooth Enabled Skin Temperature Monitor
Reference design for a wearable temperature monitor with Bluetooth connectivity. The design is suitable for real-time temperature monitoring of patients and athletes.
Body temperature monitoring...
Power Integrity: Key To Reliable And Optimised System Design
With modern-day complex multi-chipset systems, power delivery designs are becoming challenging and more critical than ever. Power integrity analysis helps us understand the impact...
Reference Design For A Handheld TDS Metre
Reference Design For A Handheld TDS Metre that employs the direct measurement of the conductivity of the solution technique to detect TDS.
Consumption of contaminated...
Reference Design for Backlight and Smart Lighting Control
The reference design by TI can control the brightness of a room or the backlight of a display by measuring the ambient light and...
Reference Design Of 1s-3s Battery Charger
Reference design for a battery charger module reference design suitable for 2-cell battery applications with a wide DC input.
Li-Ion cells are required in almost...
Reference Design of an Infrared Human Sensor
This low-cost reference design can help you detect human presence. This reference design can be integrated with light to build temporary lighting in entrances,...