Appliances

Create next-generation appliances and power tools with greater efficiency, reliability and intelligence with our products and expertise

Our system expertise and innovative technologies inspire engineers to create next-generation appliances and power tools with greater efficiency, reliability and intelligence. With our comprehensive solutions, designers can add maximum functionality across the entire system. Our leading-edge smart sensing and secure connectivity, along with power-saving motor drive and control and power management devices enable designs that optimize performance and enhance consumer lifestyles.

Why choose TI for your appliance systems?

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More energy efficiency

Our innovative power and motor control and drive solutions reduce power consumption while achieving the highest efficiency for appliance systems.

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Enhance smart features and connectivity

Smart sensing and secure connectivity technology allows you to optimize performance for comfortable lifestyles.

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Accelerate time to market

Our large selection of reference designs and on-demand performance tests, such as EMI, voltage drop and surge, enables you to create innovative solutions for your appliance system needs.

Engineering smarter and more efficient appliances

Enabling higher efficiency systems

As energy requirements become more stringent, home appliance systems must be more efficient. Our solutions enable the use of higher efficiency motors and control techniques, such as permanent magnet synchronous motors and sensor-less FOC control. Our power solutions help you implement efficient power factor correction by gallium nitride (GaN) FETs and advanced totem pole bridgeless topology.

Featured products for higher efficiency
TMS320F280025C ACTIVE C2000™ 32-bit MCU with 100-MHz, FPU, TMU, 128-kb flash, CLB
LMG3422R030 ACTIVE 600-V 30-mΩ GaN FET with integrated driver, protection and temperature reporting

Advanced sensing technology and connectivity for smart home appliance systems

In order to create a more comfortable and healthy environment, sensor technology has become increasingly important. Our analog and embedded solutions are dedicated to detecting key data to help you achieve higher performance control in home appliance systems, such as detecting temperature, humidity, air quality, liquid level and human occupancy within a room. Our wired and wireless communication solutions make home appliances more intelligent and convenient.

Design & development resources

Reference design
4-kW single-phase totem pole PFC reference design with C2000 and GaN
This reference design is a 4-kW CCM totem-pole PFC with F280049/F280025 control card and LMG342x EVM board. This design demos a robust PFC solution, which avoids isolated current sense by putting the controller's ground in the middle of a MOSFET leg. Benefitting from non-isolation, AC current (...)
Reference design
Dual motor control with digital interleaved PFC for HVAC reference design

The TIDM-02010 reference design is a 1.5-kW dual motor drive and PFC control reference design for variable frequency air conditioner outdoor unit controller in HVAC applications, which illustrates a method to implement sensorless 3-phase PMSM vector control for compressor and fan motor drive, and (...)

Reference design
People Counting and Tracking Reference Design Using mmWave Radar Sensor

This reference design demonstrates the use of IWR6843, which is a single-chip mmWave radar sensor with integrated DSP for an indoor and outdoor people counting application. This reference design uses the IWR6843ISK evaluation module (EVM) and integrates a complete radar processing chain onto the (...)

Reference designs related to Appliances

Use our reference design selection tool to find designs that best match your application and parameters.

Technical resources

White paper
White paper
Bringing Wireless Scalability to Intelligent Sensing Applications (Rev. B)
With the increasing need for connectivity driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), a new dimension of scalability is required: wireless connectivity technology.
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Application note
Application note
Sensorless Field Oriented Ctrl of 3-Phase Perm. Magnet Synch. Motors-HVDMC Kit
This application report presents a solution to control a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) using the TMS320F2803x microcontrollers.
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Application brief
Application brief
MSP430 and DRV83xx Selection Guide for Power Tools (Rev. A)
Read our application brief to find microcontroller and gate driver solutions for the development of different classes of power tools, from cordless hand-held tools to more robust garden tools.
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