Discharge circuitA circuit includes a first transistor coupled between a discharge terminal and a ground terminal. The first transistor has a first control terminal. A resistor is coupled between a power terminal and …DRIVE·Jun 16·1 min readFollowH02J7/90TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO PROTECT CIRCUITS DURING AVALANCHE CURRENTAn example apparatus includes a first transistor having a control terminal, a first terminal adapted to be coupled to a first resistor, and a second terminal adapted to be coupled to a second resistor…DRIVE·Jun 11·2 min readFollowH02H9/005TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Using a Charge Transfer CircuitA battery system includes a first battery pack having a first positive terminal and a first negative terminal and having a second battery pack having a second positive terminal and a second negative t…DRIVE·Jun 11·1 min readFollowG01R31/389TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
FREE SPACE DETECTION AND PARK-ABLE FREE SPACE DETECTION FOR OCCUPANCY GRIDS USING SENSOR MEASUREMENTSExamples provide for computer executable instructions executable by a processor to configure the processor to determine an occupancy status of cells of a region of interest by, for a first cell of the…DRIVE·Mar 19·2 min readFollowG06V20/586TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
CHARGE PUMP CIRCUITAn apparatus includes first and second capacitors, first and second switches, a current source, a first circuit, and a second circuit. The first switch is coupled between a first terminal of the first…DRIVE·Feb 19·1 min readFollowH02M3/07TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
INDUCTOR PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION FOR POWER CONVERTERSA circuit includes a current sensor circuit having inputs and an output. The current sensor inputs are adapted to be coupled to inductor terminals a power converter. The current sensor circuit include…DRIVE·Sep 26·2 min readFollowH02M3/155TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
CALIBRATION OF CIRCUITRY PARAMETERS FOR CURRENT SENSINGVarious examples disclosed herein relate to current sensing via current sensing circuitry, and more particularly, to calibrating current sensing circuitry to dynamically detect current ranges across a…DRIVE·Sep 26·1 min readFollowG01R31/374TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
LOWERING INDUCTOR PEAK CURRENT IN DCDC DIGITAL CONTROLLERIn an example, a voltage converter includes a pulse generator. The voltage converter also includes a high-side transistor having a gate coupled to the pulse generator, a source coupled to a first volt…DRIVE·Aug 15·2 min readFollowH02M3/158TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
ISOLATED HIGH-VOLTAGE DC-DC CONVERTER HYSTERETIC BURST MODE NOISE IMMUNITY USING DYNAMIC HYSTERESISA DC-to-DC converter having primary- and secondary-side circuitry separated by an isolation barrier, with a transformer and a feedback lane across the barrier, uses a dynamic function current source i…DRIVE·Aug 1·2 min readFollowH02M3/335TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
PARSING FRIENDLY AND ERROR RESILIENT MERGE FLAG CODINGMethods and apparatus for parsing friendly and error resilient merge flag coding in video coding are provided. In some methods, in contrast to merging candidate list size dependent coding of the merge…DRIVE·Jul 11·1 min readFollowH04N19/139TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
USB BATTERY CHARGING MODE ADVERTISING AND DIFFERENTIATIONA method includes determining a charging port mode by receiving a data contact detect (DCD) Complete signal, reducing a voltage on a first data pin of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector of a porta…DRIVE·May 23·1 min readFollowH02J7/00712TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
ONE-HOP EXTENSIONA vehicular battery management system (BMS) comprises a battery controller, a set of battery cells, a primary network node coupled to the battery controller, and a secondary network node coupled to th…DRIVE·May 2·1 min readFollowB60L58/10TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
POWER BALANCING FOR COMMUNICATIONSA method includes receiving, by a first device in a stack, a command from a controller. The stack includes multiple devices. The method also includes dissipating, by the first device, an amount of pow…DRIVE·Apr 25·1 min readFollowH01M10/425TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
SWITCHING CONVERTER WITH ANALOG ON-TIME EXTENSION CONTROLA system includes: 1) a battery configured to provide an input voltage (VIN); 2) switching converter circuitry coupled to the battery, wherein the switching converter circuitry includes a power switch…DRIVE·Apr 18·1 min readFollowH02M3/157TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
CALIBRATION OF A SURROUND VIEW CAMERA SYSTEMA method for automatic generation of calibration parameters for a surround view (SV) camera system is provided that includes capturing a video stream from each camera comprised in the SV camera system…DRIVE·Mar 7·1 min readFollowH04N17/002TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
EFFICIENT UNICAST SUPER FRAME COMMUNICATIONSIn some examples, a vehicular battery management system (BMS) comprises a set of battery cells and a secondary network node coupled to the set of battery cells. The secondary network node is configure…DRIVE·Nov 30·1 min readFollowH04W72/0446TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
QUICK TURN OFF OF CONTACTOR SYSTEM DURING POWER OFFExamples of contactor controllers, systems and methods enable quick-turn-off (QTO) using an output voltage of a contactor controller when its supply voltage is below a threshold but does not interfere…DRIVE·Nov 30·1 min readFollowB60L53/16TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION USING ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPYA temperature estimation apparatus includes a measurement circuit and a temperature estimation circuit. The measurement circuit is configured to acquire a voltage measurement and a current measurement…DRIVE·Nov 2·1 min readFollowG01R31/3842TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
RECTIFICATION BY BATTERY PROTECTION SYSTEMIn some examples, a controller circuit comprises: a voltage subtractor circuit having a subtractor output and first and second subtractor inputs, the first subtractor input adapted to be coupled to a …DRIVE·Oct 19·1 min readFollowH02J7/0034TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
SWITCHING CONVERTER WITH ANALOG ON-TIME EXTENSION CONTROLA system includes: 1) a battery configured to provide an input voltage (VIN); 2) switching converter circuitry coupled to the battery, wherein the switching converter circuitry includes a power switch…DRIVE·Jun 29·1 min readFollowH02M3/157TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
FREE SPACE DETECTION AND PARK-ABLE FREE SPACE DETECTION FOR OCCUPANCY GRIDS USING SENSOR MEASUREMENTSExamples provide for computer executable instructions executable by a processor to configure the processor to determine an occupancy status of cells of a region of interest by, for a first cell of the…DRIVE·Jun 1·2 min readFollowG06V20/586TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-SEGMENT ILLUMINATION OF SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORSAn apparatus includes an illumination source including a first illumination source segment and a second illumination source segment. The apparatus also includes driver circuitry coupled to the illumin…DRIVE·May 18·1 min readFollowF21S41/65TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
HANDLING OF BATTERY LOSS EVENTIn some examples, a controller circuit comprises: a voltage subtractor circuit having a subtractor output and first and second subtractor inputs, in which the first subtractor input is adapted to be c…DRIVE·May 4·1 min readFollowH02J7/0034TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
REDUCED POWER WIRELESS BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMA system includes a battery pack having a first battery module, a second battery module, and a busbar that couples the first and second battery modules; a battery management controller having a first …DRIVE·May 4·1 min readFollowH01M10/4257TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
RECTIFICATION BY BATTERY PROTECTION SYSTEMIn some examples, a controller circuit comprises: a voltage subtractor circuit having a subtractor output and first and second subtractor inputs, the first subtractor input adapted to be coupled to a …DRIVE·May 4·1 min readFollowH02J7/0034TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
SOLAR PANEL DISCONNECT AND REACTIVATION SYSTEMA photovoltaic system with an inverter, at least one solar panel for providing electrical power, and electrical wiring for coupling electrical power from the at least one solar panel to the inverter. …DRIVE·Mar 16·1 min readFollowH02S50/00TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
OPTIMIZED REGENERATIVE BRAKING CONTROL OF ELECTRIC MOTORS USING LOOK-UP TABLESA regenerative braking controller for an AC motor. To determine an electromagnetic torque for slowing or stopping the motor, the regenerative braking controller accesses a lookup table to retrieve a b…DRIVE·Mar 16·1 min readFollowB60L7/14TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
DETERMINING SUPER FRAME PACKET GENERATION TIMESIn examples, a vehicular battery management system (BMS) comprises a set of battery cells and a secondary network node coupled to the set of battery cells. The secondary network node is configured to …DRIVE·Mar 2·1 min readFollowB60L58/22TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
POWER BALANCING FOR COMMUNICATIONSA method includes receiving, by a first device in a stack, a command from a controller. The stack includes multiple devices. The method also includes dissipating, by the first device, an amount of pow…DRIVE·Mar 2·1 min readFollowH01M10/425TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
SALTED KEY REFRESHMENT IN WIRELESS BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMSA method for key refreshment in a wireless network system using a salt. The method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of secondary nodes communicably coupled to a primary node, a current ses…DRIVE·Mar 2·1 min readFollowH04W12/041TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
POWER TRANSFER OVER AN ISOLATED CAPACITIVE BARRIER WITH CONTROLLED CURRENTCapacitively isolated current-loaded or current-driven charge pump circuits and related methods transfer electrical energy from a primary side to a secondary side over a capacitive isolation boundary,…DRIVE·Jan 26·1 min readFollowH02M3/07TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
FLEXIBLE HUB FOR HANDLING MULTI-SENSOR DATAA hub that receives sensor data streams and then distributes the data streams to the various systems that use the sensor data. A demultiplexer (demux) receives the streams, filters out undesired strea…DRIVE·Jan 19·1 min readFollowB60R1/00TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
INDUCTOR PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION FOR POWER CONVERTERSA circuit includes a current sensor circuit having inputs and an output. The current sensor inputs are adapted to be coupled to inductor terminals a power converter. The current sensor circuit include…DRIVE·Dec 22·2 min readFollowH02M3/155TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
CAMERA-ONLY-LOCALIZATION IN SPARSE 3D MAPPED ENVIRONMENTSTechniques for localizing a vehicle include obtaining an image from a camera, identifying a set of image feature points in the image, obtaining an approximate location of the vehicle, determining a se…DRIVE·Dec 8·2 min readFollowG06T7/75TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
CURRENT SHARING POWER STAGE FOR PHASE MULTIPLICATION APPLICATIONSA system includes a first power stage circuit having a first PWM input, a first voltage input and a first power output. The first power stage circuit is configured to provide a first current at the fi…DRIVE·Dec 8·2 min readFollowH02J1/106TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
SURROUND VIEWA system on a chip (SoC) includes a digital signal processor (DSP) and a graphics processing unit (GPU) coupled to the DSP. The DSP is configured to receive a stream of received depth measurements and…DRIVE·Oct 20·1 min readFollowG06T15/20TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
WIRELESS PROTOCOL FOR BATTERY MANAGEMENTA vehicular battery management system (BMS) comprises a battery controller, a set of battery cells, a primary network node coupled to the battery controller, and a secondary network node coupled to th…DRIVE·Oct 20·1 min readFollowB60L58/10TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
POWERTRAIN ARCHITECTURE FOR A VEHICLE UTILIZING AN ON-BOARD CHARGERTechniques related to powertrain architectures for vehicles (such as hybrid electric vehicle/electric vehicles) utilizing an on-board charger are disclosed. The techniques include a device for power r…DRIVE·Oct 20·1 min readFollowB60L53/24TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
COMBINED PHASE AND TIME-OF-FLIGHT MEASUREMENTSystems and methods of measuring distance between two wireless devices by combining phase shift and time-of-flight measurements. A first wireless devices sends a first packet to the second wireless de…DRIVE·Oct 6·1 min readFollowG01S13/84TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Integrated Battery Charge Regulation Circuit Based on Power FET Conductivity ModulationA system includes: a switching converter circuit adapted to be coupled between an input voltage source and a load; and an integrated circuit adapted to be coupled between the input voltage source and …DRIVE·Jun 9·1 min readFollowH02J7/007182TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
