Texas Instruments today unveiled the industry’s smallest, most power-efficient digital temperature sensor. The TMP103 consumes 97 percent less power and is 75 percent smaller than the next closest competitor. It also provides global read/write functionality to ease thermal profiling. Using a single command, eight TMP103 devices mounted on the board can simultaneously identify and monitor hotspots. The TMP103 simplifies thermal profiling whi...

Texas Instruments introduced TINA-TI 9.1, a powerful SPICE-based analog design and simulation tool. The latest version of the free software program, which averages 5X speed increases over version 7.0, allows engineers to design, test and troubleshoot a broad variety of basic and advanced analog circuits, including complex architectures, without any node or number of device limitations. In addition, TINA-TI 9.1 supports any industry SPICE models,...

Il sera possible de collecter plus de données à partir de sources nouvelles grâce à la série de microcontrôleurs FRAM MSP430FR57xx qui propose aux développeurs des vitesses d'écriture jusqu'à 100 fois plus élevées et une consommation d'énergie réduite jusqu'à 250

More data from new places is made possible by the MSP430FR57xx FRAM microcontroller series that allows developers to write up to 100x times faster and save as much as 250x power

Ushering in a new era of reliable data logging and RF communication capabilities, Texas Instruments announced the industry’s first ultra-low-power ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) 16-bit microcontrollers. Further demonstrating TI's embedded processing leadership, the new MSP430FR57xx FRAM series ensures data can be written more than 100 times faster and uses as little as 250 times less power than flash- and EEPROM-based microcontroll...

Texas Instruments announced that the TI E2E Community has eclipsed the 50,000 member mark, and is growing an ever larger pool of technical experts available to answer engineering questions from pre-design planning queries to troubleshooting.

Texas Instruments announced a new “Tool Swap” program to give developers a chance to get rid of underperforming microcontroller (MCU) tools from competitors and make the switch to TI’s leading solutions. The program is sponsored by Digi-Key Corporation and will take place on May 3 – 5 at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), Silicon Valley in San Jose, Calif. Each day of the program, the first 100 developers to bring a used competitiv...

Continuing its mission to provide easy-to-use tools, Texas Instruments announced the Grace software platform, a free visual plug-in that enables developers to easily enable and configure ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontroller peripherals through a graphical user interface (GUI). With Grace software, developers can interact with buttons, pull-down menus and helpful pop-ups to generate easy-to-understand C code that automatically configures the low...

Continuing to unleash higher performance levels and more innovations in the multicore space, Texas Instruments introduced the newest digital signal processor (DSP) in the TMS320C66x DSP generation, the TMS320C6671 device, as well as enhancements to its TMS320C6670 radio System-on-Chip (SoC). Based on TI’s KeyStone multicore architecture, the C6671 DSP, the industry’s fastest and highest performing fixed-and floating-point single core ...

Facilitating rapid and easier development with its multicore devices, Texas Instruments announced several software updates for its multicore digital signal processors (DSPs), including the new TMS320C66x DSP generation.

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) annonce qu'elle est la première entreprise de semiconducteurs à obtenir une certification de la part de l'USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) pour son contrôleur hôte extensible (xHCI) 4 ports USB SuperSpeed (USB 3.0). En plus de ce contrôleur hôte à quatre ports, le TUSB7340, TI a également obtenu une certification pour son contrôleur hôte...

Enabling the world’s lowest power touch sense capabilities on all MSP430 devices, Texas Instruments announced the ultra-low-power MSP430 16-bit microcontroller capacitive touch portfolio. Building on TI's embedded processing expertise, the portfolio introduces new hardware and free software solutions that gives developers easy-to-use, cost-effective options for microcontroller-based capacitive touch applications, while still benefitting fro...

Texas Instruments introduced a 25W digital audio power amplifier for driving stereo bridge-tied speakers. The TAS5727 boasts an RDS(on) that is32 percent lower ­than previous product generations, resulting in a 20-percent lower total case temperature. Additionally, two-band dynamic range compression allows for audio processing in two different frequency bands to overcome audio quality limitations of small speakers. The TAS5727 enables designe...

Texas Instruments Incorporated introduces its next generation of wireless power technology, which is 80-percent smaller than TI’s previous receiver chip.

Texas Instruments introduced a complete motor control evaluation kit for spinning brushless DC (BLDC) and permanent magnet synchronous (PMSM) motors. The DRV8312-C2-KIT is a high-performance, power-efficient and cost-effective sensorless field-oriented control (FOC) and trapezoidal commutation platform. It spins motors out of the box, speeding development of sub-50-V and 6.5-A brushless motors for driving medical pumps, gates, lifts and small pum...

Today, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) announced the availability of new credit-card sized, low-cost TMDX5502EZDSP and TMDX5509EZDSP development tools, making TMS320C5000™ digital signal processor (DSP) development easy and accessible for developers, hobbyists, researchers and students.

Texas Instruments announced that it is the first semiconductor company to receive certification from the USB Implementer’s Forum (USB-IF) for its SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) four-port extensible host controller (xHCI). In addition to the four-port host controller, the TUSB7340, TI also achieved certification for its two-port host controller, the TUSB7320. These four- and two-port host controllers support such applications as notebooks, desktop...

Texas Instruments expanded its industry-leading power management portfolio with two new step-down regulators with wide input voltages and high-voltage protection. The new 100-V LDO and 60-V DC/DC controller can withstand high-voltage transients, while maintaining high efficiency -- providing peace of mind to designers of low- to mid-current, high-voltage telecom and industrial designs, such as motor control, HVAC relay, smart meters and automotiv...

Building on its award-winning ADS1298 analog-front-end (AFE) family, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today introduced the industry’s first fully-integrated AFEs with on-chip respiration impedance measurement in full production. The 24-bit ADS1298R devices simplify the implementation of respiration detection in portable electrocardiogram (ECG) equipment by integrating more than 40 discrete components, reducing component count...

Texas Instruments announced 16 recipients of the company’s 2010 Supplier Excellence Award (SEA). The annual award recognizes outstanding service and support in areas including cost, environmental responsibility, technology responsiveness, assurance of supply and quality.