The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today announced adoption of Bluetooth low energy technology, the hallmark feature of the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0. In conjunction, Texas Instruments announced full qualification of the Bluetooth low energy stack supporting the BlueLink™ and WiLink™ connectivity combo solutions. TI also achieved complete Bluetooth v4.0 controller qualification on the CC2540 low-power, single-mo...

Texas Instruments annonce le lancement du tout premier transceiver SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0), qui accélère nettement le transfert de données comparé à l’USB High-Speed (USB 2.0). Affichant une sensibilité du récepteur deux fois plus élevée que celle spécifiée par la norme USB 3.0, le TUSB1310 bénéficie d’interfaces PIPE3 et ULPI offrant les fonctionnalités USB 3.0 en association avec des cœurs numériques de processeurs d’appl...

Texas Instruments introduced the lowest power 11-bit, 200 MSPS ADC family, with quad (ADS58C48), dual (ADS58C28) and buffered single-input (ADS58B18) options. Featuring SNRBoost technology, the ADCs deliver enhanced in-band signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for multi-carrier and multi-mode communications systems requiring up to 65 MHz of signal bandwidth, such as CDMA, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, LTE and WiMAX.

Members of the TI team discuss the Droid X features leveraging TI technology.

Easily launch designs and do more for less, with the Value Line series of MSP430™ microcontrollers that deliver 16-bit performance and ultra-low power at 8-bit price.

Texas Instruments introduced the industry’s first SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) transceiver, which is capable of lightning-fast data transfers when compared to USB High-Speed devices (USB 2.0). Featuring receiver sensitivity that is twice as good as required by the USB 3.0 specification, the TUSB1310’s PIPE3 and ULPI interfaces enable USB 3.0 functionality when used in conjunction with the integrated application processor digital cores. Th...

Texas Instruments announced that it is developing new femtocell devices based on its recently announced multicore System-on-a-Chip (SoC) architecture, which integrates both fixed and floating point capabilities in the industry’s highest performing central processing unit (CPU). Strengthening its commitment to the growing femtocell market, TI is developing these new scalable devices, which can support from eight to 64 users, to simplify product...

Furthering its commitment to merge 16-bit MCU performance, ultra-low power and ultra-low cost to overcome shortcomings of 8-bit MCUs, Texas Instruments today announced its new MSP430™ MCU Value Line LaunchPad development kit. For $4.30, the open source kit includes all of the hardware and software needed to easily launch designs based on TI’s MSP430 Value Line MCUs, which start at 25 cents and offer up to 10X performance and 10X battery life ...

Texas Instruments in collaboration with Azcom Technology, a leader in providing cellular communications software solutions, and Nash Technologies, a wireless communication system development and support company, is announcing the industry’s first live demonstration of a 32-user femtocell solution at the Femtocells World Summit this week. The demonstration platform, which highlights TI’s silicon femtocell capabilities as well as Azcom’s and ...

Texas Instruments introduced today the TPS657051, a small power management unit that supports portable consumer electronics and space-limited applications, such as webcams or heat- or noise-sensitive embedded camera modules.

Texas Instruments lance aujourd’hui son amplificateur audio mono Classe D 2 W avec convertisseur boost intégré, fournissant une puissance audio supérieure de 36% à celle des circuits concurrents, et ce de manière constante sur toute la plage de tension utilisable d’une batterie Li-Ion. Fournissant un rendement élevé, le TPA2015D1 assure une durée de vie deux fois supérieur...

Texas Instruments announced the availability of its version 2.0 medical imaging software toolkit (STK), an updated and expanded collection of imaging algorithms optimized for TI’s TMS320C64x+ digital signal processors (DSPs). Complementing TI’s full portfolio of analog and embedded processing solutions for medical imaging, the updated toolkit offers new image processing kernels that shorten product development time and enable real-time medic...

Developers can now benefit from enhanced system response time, improved boot times and increased battery life with two new TI Sitara microprocessor units (MPUs), the AM3715 and AM3703 processors, with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8. Introduced today by Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN), these MPUs are appropriate for a wide variety of applications, such as portable data terminals, portable medical equipment, home and building automation, naviga...

Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced a synchronous MOSFET half bridge that achieves greater than 90 percent efficiency at 25 A – and in half the area of competitive power MOSFET devices. TI’s new CSD86350Q5D Power Block combines two asymmetric NexFET power MOSFETs in an advanced package that delivers high performance in low-voltage synchronous buck half-bridge applications, including servers, desktop and notebook PCs, base ...

Showcased in a product demonstration at the Computex exhibition, Texas Instruments Incorporated featured Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7, the next generation of Microsoft’s widely used Windows Embedded CE platform for hardware manufacturers of specialized devices Windows Embedded Compact 7 delivers a toolkit for hardware manufacturers and developers to bring high performing, reliable and differentiated specialized devices to market quicke...

Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced a 2-W mono Class-D audio amplifier with integrated boost converter, which delivers 36 percent louder audio than competitive devices, consistent across the entire Li-Ion battery range. The highly efficient TPA2015D1 allows more than twice the battery life compared to the nearest competing amplifier and is available in a compact 2-mm x 2-mm WCSP package for space-constrained applications including sma...

Bringing the intelligence and precision of real-time digital control to expanding LED applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced its new TMS320C2000™ Piccolo microcontroller DC/DC LED Developer’s Kit. The new LED controller kit enables developers to leverage the performance of low-cost Piccolo MCUs to differentiate LED designs with advanced features such as dimming, color tone adjustment, power line communication and fault d...

Video communications designers can now benefit from an integrated video communications solution – pre-installed software on a video processor chip, available from a single vendor. The VCE6467 Video Communications Engine from Texas Instruments Incorporated and RADVISION’s Technology Business Unit is a cost-conscious solution easily enabling a variety of two-way, live HD video communications applications, including video conferencing, telemedi...

A look at TI's new PurePath™ Wireless 2.4 GHz RF SoC for wireless digital audio streaming.

The TPS40K Designer software provides a simple design tool for both novice and experienced power supply designers using the Texas Instruments TPS40xxx family of controllers.