This design implements a bidirectional, non-isolated buck-boost power converter suitable for solar microconverters, hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), and battery charging applications.
TIDM-CAPTIVATE-64-BUTTON TI reference design demonstrates an ultra-low power touch panel with 64 buttons that can be controlled from a single MSP microcontroller (MCU) with CapTIvate™ technology. The design uses mutual capacitance technology to ensure that all 64 buttons are tightly packed and can be controlled with just 16 MCU pins. This touch panel easily connects to the CAPTIVATE-FR2633 MCU target module included in the MSP-CAPT-FR2633 MCU development kit.
This reference design demonstrates an ultra-low power capacitive touch panel solution powered by a single MSP430™ microcontroller (MCU) with CapTIvate™ technology. The use of self- and mutual-capacitance technology enables multifunctional capacitive touch panels (buttons and proximity sensors) to be used in electronic locks and other applications with various human-machine interfaces. This TI reference design also shows how to extend battery life by cyclically running the MSP430 CPU and switch between low-power and run modes.
This reference design demonstrates how to use the CapTIvate software library communication module to connect an MSP430 MCU with CapTIvate™ technology to an MSP432 MCU host microcontroller. This design integrates capacitive touch technology and human touch, using MSP432 MCU as the host to drive the QVGA LCD color screen.
Touch Remote Powered by CapTIvate™ Technology demonstrates a capacitive touch solution using a single MSP430™ microcontroller (MCU) with CapTIvate technology. This design uses self- and mutual-capacitance technology to enable multifunctional capacitive touch panels (buttons, sliders, gesture pads, grip sensors, and proximity sensors) for smart TVs, set-top boxes, and remote applications in sound systems in the future. Application expansion with various available communication interfaces. This design allows operators to extend battery life through low-power active and standby modes.
The Noise Tolerant Capacitive Touch HMI Design (TIDM-CAPTOUCHEMCREF) is a reference design for implementing a noise tolerant capacitive touch human machine interface (HMI). It integrates TI's MSP430FR2633 microcontroller (MCU) with high-performance CapTIvate™ touch technology and the TPS7A4533 linear regulator and UCC28910 flyback switch. This reference design demonstrates how a design that can pass challenging conducted RF immunity, electrical fast transient/burst immunity can be designed using a trinity design approach that includes hardware design techniques, CapTIvate technology peripheral functionality, and software signal technology. Hardware and software for system-level testing of electrostatic discharge immunity and electrostatic discharge immunity.
The Noise Tolerant Capacitive Touch HMI Design (TIDM-CAPTOUCHEMCREF) is a reference design for implementing a noise tolerant capacitive touch human machine interface (HMI). It integrates TI's MSP430FR2633 microcontroller (MCU) with high-performance CapTIvate™ touch technology and the TPS7A4533 linear regulator and UCC28910 flyback switch. This reference design demonstrates how a design that can pass challenging conducted RF immunity, electrical fast transient/burst immunity can be designed using a trinity design approach that includes hardware design techniques, CapTIvate technology peripheral functionality, and software signal technology. Hardware and software for system-level testing of electrostatic discharge immunity and electrostatic discharge immunity.
This TI reference design describes how to emulate an EEPROM using ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) technology on an MSP430™ ultra-low power microcontroller (MCU) along with other sensing capabilities that can be enabled when using the MCU. combine. This reference design supports connection to the host processor via both I 2 C and SPI interfaces, allowing for multiple slave addressing.
This reference design uses the MSP430FR4133 FRAM-based MCU and is a remotely controlled, full-featured, battery-powered magnetic pulse water meter with wired and wireless automatic meter reading (AMR) capabilities. The instantaneous flow rate and total flow rate will be displayed on the LCD screen. The design operates in a low-power mode and reduces CPU workload, thereby helping to reduce overall power consumption.
Battery-powered water meters face a challenge: continuously measuring water flow information while consuming as little power as possible. The EVM430-FR6989 used in this design uses a MSP430 FRAM-based microcontroller, which can provide 100uA/MHz active mode current and 450nA standby mode current, support real-time clock function, and integrate low-power analog and digital peripherals. Additionally, the MCU offers virtually unlimited write endurance, fast/low power writes and data flexibility. This reference design demonstrates how to use the integrated Extended Scan Interface (ESI) on a microcontroller to achieve ultra-low power consumption (versus the same detection method using external circuitry). In a water meter design, if coupled to the LC rotation detection sensor (supplied), the ESI continuously detects thruster rotation while the rest of the microcontroller is in a low power mode. The design automates the measurement process and reduces CPU involvement by using the ESI integrated in the MSP430 MCU, which helps reduce overall power consumption.
This BoosterPack package contains an "EM Adapter BoosterPack". The purpose of this EM adapter board is to provide an easy-to-use bridge between any TI MCU LaunchPad and various TI RF Evaluation Modules (EMs), such as the CCxxxx Low Power RF Evaluation Modules. No specific software is provided, so it is the user's responsibility to write the appropriate code to interface between the MCU and the RF device.
This Near Field Communication (NFC) reference design provides a firmware example for implementing an NFC reader/writer application using the TRF7970A NFC transceiver. This reference design provides a number of easy-to-use application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow users to quickly implement NFC reader/writer functionality. The accompanying documentation, hardware, and sample C code allow designers to develop NFC reader/writer applications using the ultra-low-power MSP430/MSP432 MCUs or easily port to other carefully selected MCUs.
This design uses the MSP430F6736 device to implement a highly integrated single-chip energy metering (meter) solution. Hardware and software design files are provided to calculate various parameters of single-phase energy metering such as RMS current and voltage, active and reactive power and charge, power factor and frequency.
Configuration of Wi-Fi network connection parameters in embedded applications can be completed with a simple tap using NFC technology. This reference design illustrates how to perform NFC connection switching (pairing) and URL sharing on a Wi-Fi node using the TM4C1294 high-performance microcontroller, the CC3100 network processor, and the TRF7970A NFC transceiver or RF430CL330H NFC transponder.
System example showing how to build a WIFI node by integrating the TM4C1294 MCU and CC3100 network processor from the TM4C product family. This reference example demonstrates the function of remotely controlling the operating status of an MCU through the Internet.
System example of an active cell balancing battery management system. The TMS570LS0432 microcontroller commands the EMB1402 EVM to monitor the battery cells and perform charge/discharge from one battery cell to an external 12V power supply. Users can view battery status and control battery balancing through a GUI running on the host PC.
TIDM-ULTRASONIC-FLOW-TDC is a reference design for an ultrasonic flow meter (water, gas or heat meter) with LCD, using a time-to-digital converter and an ultra-low power MCU. The solution includes optimized leak detection, low power consumption and small form factor, which are important requirements for water, heat and gas meter applications. The design also includes a high-efficiency DC-DC converter for system power supply.
In battery-powered water meters, battery life over several years is key. One of the challenges is to continuously measure water flow information while using as little power as possible. The Scan I/F sensing peripheral integrated on the ultra-low power MSP430 microcontroller solves this problem. In the water meter design, the scan interface coupled to the LC rotation detection sensor continuously detects the rotation of the thruster while the rest of the microcontroller is in a low-power sleep mode. This reference design demonstrates how to use the scan interface to achieve ultra-low power consumption (versus the same detection method using external circuitry).
This design pairs the ultra-low-power MSP430 MCU with a sub-1GHz RF transceiver to achieve a battery-powered wireless sensor monitoring solution. This design demonstrates access points and wireless nodes that can share sensor data wirelessly using the network protocol "SimpliciTI". A PC-side GUI is also provided to visually display wireless data transmitted/received between various nodes and access points.
This verification design utilizes a triangle wave generator and comparator to generate a pulse-width modulated (PWM) waveform with a duty cycle that is inversely proportional to the input voltage. The op amp and comparator generate a triangular waveform, which is then passed to one input of the comparator. By passing the input voltage to the other comparator inputs, a PWM waveform is generated. Negative feedback from the PWM waveform to the error amplifier is used to ensure high accuracy and linearity of the output. This design was constructed using the OPA2365 op amp, TLV3502 comparator, and REF3325 reference. Learn more about TI's high-precision designs