on the fringe blog

white papers

• Semiconductor innovation is enabling new ways of delivering medical care and wellness
• Innovations in energy efficiency, consumption and harvesting will produce an array of benefits.
• Low-power design and connectivity: Key components for the "Internet of Things."
• Learn about the growing role of embedded analytics in areas such as automotive, surveillance and industrial systems.
• Advances in energy harvesting are paving the way for perpetual devices.
• Microcontrollers enable designers to bring an array of intelligent features to energy-efficient LED lighting.
• Power line communications is very attractive in applications that can benefit from networking over existing lines.

whiteboard video series

smart buildings

In this whiteboard video series, TI innovators address challenges such as, energy efficiency and brainstorm innovative ways the semiconductor industry can solve those challenges.

cloud connectivity

Vicki explores some of the technological advances that will be needed to fulfill the potential of cloud computing, enabling trillions of devices to have access to distributed computing resources.

connected health

Sourabh discusses the enabling technologies that will one day provide everyone with continuous access to medical expertise via systems that constantly monitor individuals' health data.

intelligent systems

Fernando talks about the challenges that are being overcome to produce increasingly sophisticated systems that can process vast amounts of data and then take action with little or no human intervention.

terahertz waves

Brian looks at how the latest advances in silicon technology are opening up a broad new class of applications for technology based on a previously underused portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

holographic motion displays

Greg reviews some of the optics behind technology that could ultimately produce full-motion, 3-D, 360-degree holographic display, enabling fans, for example, to effectively watch a football game take place on a tabletop.

embedded vision processing for automotive

While there is a lot of excitement around embedded vision bringing higher levels of safety to driving, reaching the next-level of robustness for both passive and active safety will require an exponential increase in performance that is highly optimized for embedded vision processing.

depth sensing our 3D world

Conventional cameras capture a 2-dimensional representation of our 3-dimensional world, which can be rather "flat" and not tell us much about size, shape, orientation and location of objects in a scene.

embedded processing for medical electronics

Imagine a world in which the technology for medical diagnosis and treatment was as mobile as a cell phone, lowering healthcare costs and reducing the need for hospital stays.