Electronics Weekly
“Across our innovative semiconductor product portfolio, TI is solving challenges related to low power and energy efficiency,” said Gene Frantz, principal fellow at TI and who drew up the “Gene’s Law” graph which showed the efficiency of integrated circuits (ICs) doubling every 18 months. “Applications like cloud computing, medical and consumer electronics will continue to require creative solutions for energy conversion, improved signal path functionality and energy transmission.” Frantz will give an invited talk about electronic system challenges for healthcare, many of which revolve around low-energy design. On Monday, TI’s Karthik Kardivel will describe a 330nA energy harvesting charger with battery management for solar and thermoelectric electric energy harvesting. The charger and battery management IC, called the bq25504, is designed to extract and store energy in rechargeable batteries or super capacitors for use in personal electronics. On the mixed-signal front, TI’s Venkatesh Srinivasan will describe a wide bandwidth and power-efficient continuous time sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for signal chain applications, including communications or ultrasonic imaging systems. It is the highest clocked CT ADC published to date, running at 6GHz.
TI promotes low power at ISSCC
The International Solid State Circuits Conference kicks off next week and Texas Instruments, which unveiled a low-energy digital signal processor last year based on near-threshold logic circuitry, is keen to tout its involvement in more low-power work this year.
