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Texas Instruments online tech day June 29,

2010
Paul Rako - June 23, 2010

I mentioned Texas Instruments tech days in a previous blog during the 2010 Embedded Systems
Conference. Now TI is putting on a virtual tech day on their website. Analog and digital designers
can attend virtual live and on-demand training sessions and chat with TI applications people. There
are live sessions that will cover both power supply design and analog signal chain design. From a
note sent to me by Texas good ol boy Steven Chandler, the power topics are:
Integrated PoL solutions in portable applications - Pedro Artal at 10 a.m.
Todays low-power and portable processors can be easily powered by TIs Point of Load (PoL)
solutions. Learn more about available ref designs for TI OMAP and other popular processors like
Freescale and Samsung. The latest offering gives the unique opportunity to integrate a complete
solution in one single IC, from chargers to high-speed USB 2.0 PHY and audio-codecs. In order to
extend battery-lifetime, learn also about advanced voltage scaling schemes like Dynamic Voltage
Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and Smart Reflex.
Total Power Solutions for Embedded Processing - George Lakkas at 11 a.m.
In applications from industrial PCs, to factory and home automation, to In-Vehicle Infotainment and
Smart Signs to Battlefield Reactive Skins and Wearable PCs to Tele-Medicine and Renewable Energy
Embedded Computers are at the heart of processing and control often taking up an area no larger
than 2.5 square inches. Whether youre using TIs OMAP 35xx or Intels Atom or Core i7 TI has the
complete Power Solutions for your system design. In this session an overview of these solutions will
be presented, and Intels Atom, and Core i7 power requirements, TIs design support tools, and
reference designs, including TI NexFETs, will be presented in more detail.
Battery charging, gauging and protection - Jon Beall at 1 p.m.
As different battery technologies like Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) and Super Capacitor are
becoming more popular, TI continues to be the leader in Battery Management solutions. Come hear
how TI can provide solutions in these new spaces including for JEITA. An overview of Battery
Charging, Gas Gauging and Protection solutions for single- or multi-cell battery applications,
including for Li-Ion batteries, will be covered in this session
TI LED Lighting Power Solutions overview - Peter Di Maso at 2 p.m.
This training will present an overview of the LED general light solutions available at TI. The
solutions will be for Residential, Commercial, Outdoor and Infrastructure Lighting solutions. Both
AC-DC and DC-DC solutions in the forms of Reference Designs, EVMs and products will be

discussed. Solutions from both Analog and Embedded Processing will be presented.
Power Design with SwitcherProTM and TINA-TI - Michael Krasnicki at 3 p.m.
In this session you will learn to generate dc-to-dc power supplies in minutes with SwitcherPro and
simulate them with TINA-TI. SwitcherPro allows you to: select TI parts and real world components,
analyze designs for efficiency/stability/size and modify designs to meet your needs. TINA-TI allows
you to simulate the transient start-up, steady state, and shutdown characteristics, noise effects,
line/load regulation, non-ideal component variation, and stability of your power supply.
Analog Signal Chain Design topics.The Best Products Youve Never Heard Of - Dwight Byrd at
10 a.m.
As Texas Instruments (TI) continually adds to its ever-expanding portfolio, more groundbreaking
products are created in areas once unheard of for TI. We will highlight in more technical detail a few
of our latest and greatest releases in the following product areas: ESD/EMI Protection Devices, I2C
products, Voltage Level Translators, Signal Switches, Temperature Sensors, Digital Potentiometers,
Load switches, Clocks, Current Shunts and others.
FilterPro3: Designing Active Filters - Thomas Kuehl at 11 a.m.
Active filters are commonly applied in ADC anti-aliasing and DAC anti-imaging applications and
directly in the analog signal path to condition signals. FilterPro has been in use for two decades and
is a favorite tool for filter synthesis. As time has passed FilterPro has been updated to include
additional responses and capabilities; however, these changes were add-ons to the original program
that limited their usefulness. Now, FilterPro has been completely rebuilt from the ground up
featuring a new math engine and a new easy-to-use user interface. This session will look at FilterPro
3s new features and capabilities using practical filter examples.
Sensors and the Analog Interface - Thomas Kuehl at 1 p.m.
In this presentation we will discuss the way to monitor many different physical phenomena, such as
temperature, air flow, humidity, and power. We will discuss numerous sensor characteristics and the
various styles of sensor signal conditioning that you can implement in your systems. Throughout this
presentation, the output of every sensor circuit will be suitable for a conversion to a digital signal.
You will leave this session fully armed to tackle your on-board or remote sensor challenges.
Deciphering Electrical Characteristics in an Op Amp Datasheet - Tim Green at 2 p.m.
The Operational Amplifier (Op Amp) is often the key analog gain block in acquiring and scaling real
world signals in any data acquisition system. To predict system accuracy when using op amps it is
important to understand the op amp data sheet and how individual specifications affect both the DC
and AC transfer accuracy through the op amp. Both DC and AC limitations will be discussed in
detail. With this knowledge any engineer can design with op amps right the first time.
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In addition to these analog topics, there are a ton of presentations about some newfangled thing
called a microprocessor, probably never amount to much, but us analog folks might want to check
out those sessions too.

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