Artist's impression of a nuclear propulsion system that could send humans to Mars. (Image Credit: NASA) NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama., is exploring new and faster ways to travel to Mars, and one of those innova...
Various research efforts have used image and video processing to approach the problem of monitoring human driver behavior. Driver recklessness, tiredness, and distraction can be detected using a Driver Monitoring System (DMS), a future-proof, smart d...
What is V2G Technology (Vehicle to Grid)?
Energy efficiency, decarbonization, and electrification can help overcome the climate catastrophe caused by energy and mobility sectors. Electric vehicles (EVs) play an important role in decarboni...
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket with three private astronauts aboard, heading to the International Space Station on April 8th. (Image Credit: Axiom Space)
Poised to return to Earth, and nothing terrible happened. That’s an achievment.
On A...
I'm trying out CAN communication. I have a mix of can devices and monitors available now.In this post, I'm building a device that keeps the CAN bus traffic high at all times, and can listen for particular traffic on that bus. Whatever anyone ...
I opened an end-of-life smart car key.It uses radio for locking / unlocking and IR to switch the vehicle off and on.A deep dive is available here. The type of key here is one that you can use from a distance to open or close the car, but that yo...
I had an accident last Monday on my way to meet balearicdynamics.No one got hurt, but my side-view mirror is damaged.There's a blinker in the mirror housing that's now exposed. A good opportunity to see how it's designed. Here's a view of ...
This is a bit of a niche blog.The TI Hercules has two family members that always have memory parity checking on.That's very good, but requires a dedicated way of loading the memory into the flash. In the past this was documented. But the doc...
This is my first self written HET program that actually works. You can define a number of timers and let them create an interrupt when they expire. I've created 8 independent 1µs resolution timers in this example. Many more are possible*1.All pre...
A very simple HET example: Project1 - generate 2 PWM signals and simulate them with Synapticad Wave Viewer.In the previous posts I reviewed a HET application note called HET Getting Started. This time I use another application note called HET Getting...
A very simple HET example: Project0 - generate a PWM signal with a fixed duty cycle.The previous posts were a showcase: let the timer module do some calculations while generating and and measuring signals. In this much simpler post let's take a step ...
This project uses the timers of a TI Hercules microcontroller to generate complex digital signals and to measure digital signals. In this post: measure the the duty cycle of the previous post and take actions when it's about a certain range. The...
This project uses the timers of a TI Hercules microcontroller to generate complex digital signals and to measure digital signals. In this post: create a triangle wave by modulating the duty cycle of a fixed frequency pulse wave. This ...
This project uses the timers of a TI Hercules microcontroller to generate complex digital signals and to measure digital signals. The TI Hercules microcontroller has interesting timers. They call them high-end timers, HET. They are autonomous pr...
The Lighting Market for Automotive is projected to grow at a CAGR of 6.80% from 2017 to 2022 and is expected to reach USD 29.97 billion by 2022. Increasing vehicle production and lighting applications are the key factors driving the demand for lighti...
The Hercules microcontroller family has a programmable timer coprocessor.In this post, I'm making it simulate an extra SCI / UART channel. With read and write interrupts.I did this exercise for a fellow member on the TI e2e forum, Praveen. He got mos...
This may be my slowest blog series ever - previous post was October '17. I'm trying out basic CAN communication on a Hercules microcontroller.In this part I have my driver boards working. I designed a tiny CAN driver PCB more than a year ag...
China is becoming serious about leading the electrified future; they are looking for reducing its dependence on imported oil and decreasing the smog level in its cities while growing their Electric Vehicle (EV) market: near 375,000 EVs were manufactu...
The transformation of the idle transportation industry will innovate during this year as transit systems not only move people and goods between places but mitigate time and distance —bringing us closer together. Some of the Transportation Technologie...
Alps Electric exhibited at CEATEC Japan 2018.For automotive application, we presented latest products and technologies for CASE domains(connected cars, autonomous driving, sharing and services, and electric vehicles). Part of our exhibition is n...
Smart Transportation systems are mixing embedded technologies, data processing capabilities, and telematics breakthroughs to develop a robust network of solutions that are changing the way everyone (users, organizations, and governments) are not only...
Vehicles are quickly evolving from being a simple way of transport to become a highly-computerized mobile hub. Modern cars and trucks are gradually turning into computers-on-wheels by plugging-in to the Internet to offer efficiency, comfort, and conv...
Different state-of-the-art tech trends are enabling the Autonomous Vehicle revolution: Electrification, Connectivity, and Software. The confluence of these disruptive technology-driven trends is transforming the automotive industry as they are provin...
Drivers are not ready to give over the wheel even when +37,000 people died in motor vehicle accidents on US highways in 2016 —most of the cases due to some kind of human error. There is a concern (or fear?) if autonomous cars and trucks are ready to ...
