[MUSIC PLAYING] Hey, everyone. We're excited to introduce to you our portfolio of silicon based linear thermistors that help solve some of the challenges you might be facing when using NTC thermistors for temperature sensing. I'm Bryan Padilla. 

And I'm Will Cooper. You know, Bryan, our customers face challenges every day as they try and understand how to get the best accuracy across a wide temperature range. 

Yes, one of the challenges that we often see is that of resistance tolerance. Now, NTCs increase their resistance tolerance as they move away from 25 degrees C. And this is one of the reasons why they often require multiple points of calibration in order to achieve greater accuracy over a wide temperature range. 

Yeah, I've seen this calibration cost customers millions of dollars in production. Or they can compensate by increasing their BOM with multiple NTCs for different temperature points. 

Exactly. But with our devices, you can save on some of those costs because of their inherent stability and linearity. Whereas an NTC would require multiple points of calibration, our devices only require up to one point in order to achieve the same levels of accuracy as that NTC. Now, the next challenge we often see is that of long-term reliability. Many NTC manufacturers don't specify the long-term sensor drift in their data sheets. 

The ones I've seen can range from 5% to 25%. And often, this means you can be measuring 50 degrees C day and 60 degrees C the next day. And that can drive long-term reliability issues. 

Now, NTCs increase their power consumption as temperature rises, which affects the self-heating, and in turn affects the measurement precision over time. But with our devices, they decrease the power consumption as temperature rises, which minimizes the self-heating and in turn maintains a stable accuracy over its lifetime. 

With increased processing performance and smaller solution sizes, this ultimately means that you can get a lot better performance and use less power by using the TI thermistor. If you wanted to get started and deal with the challenges that we discussed today, you can use our Thermistor Design Tool, which is available on TI.com, which offers you resistance tables, polynomial equations, example C code, and more to get started in minutes. 

Yep, and you can achieve up to 50% greater accuracy with our devices over traditional NTC thermistors at the same low cost and footprint sizes that you're used to. So for more information on our thermistor portfolio, please visit ti.com/thermistors.