TI has introduced today the industry’s smallest 1.1-A Li-Ion linear battery charger with integrated 50-mA low-dropout regulator to support mobile phones and other handheld electronics. The new bq25040 comes in a small 2 mm x 3 mm package, and can regulate voltage within one-percent accuracy from a USB port or AC adapter. The device’s integrated LDO allows a mobile application to power up instantly from an external power source, even w...

Combining the ease-of-use and precision of floating-point programming with the connectivity and lower-cost options of fixed-point devices, Texas Instruments has announced the availability of the TMS320C6743 digital signal processor (DSP). Based on the TMS320C674x core, the new low-power DSP couples the high precision and wide dynamic range of TI’s floating-point TMS320C67x+ core with the higher system performance of TI’s fixed-point T...

Symbian Foundation today announced the Zoom OMAP34x-II mobile development platform (MDP) based on OMAP technology from Texas Instruments as the first standard hardware development platform for developers that will help drive open source innovation on the Symbian platform.

Expanding the company’s line of Fusion Digital Power controllers, Texas Instruments has introduced a new dual-output, multi-phase synchronous buck controller that can support various point-of-load configurations.

To answer security designers needs to create advanced surveillance products with less resources, Texas Instruments has announced today two comprehensive and cost-effective reference designs for Internet Protocol cameras and digital video recorders. These reference designs, powered by the new TMS320DM365 digital media processor based on DaVinci technology, provide high-definition (HD) H.264 in high, main or base profile (D1, 720p @ 30 fps or 1080p...

Users of music phones and MP3 players can benefit from dramatically extended music playback time enabled by two new 25-mW Class-G, DirectPath stereo headphone amplifiers from Texas Instruments, which adjust their voltage supplies to the audio signal to minimize power dissipation. In a standalone Lithium-Ion battery test between TI’s Class-G technology and a competing ground-referenced Class-AB device, the TPA6140A2 and TPA6141A2 reduced pow...

Users of music phones and MP3 players can benefit from dramatically extended music playback time enabled by two new 25-mW Class-G, DirectPath stereo headphone amplifiers from Texas Instruments, which adjust their voltage supplies to the audio signal to minimize power dissipation. In a standalone Lithium-Ion battery test between TI’s Class-G technology and a competing ground-referenced Class-AB device, the TPA6140A2 and TPA6141A2 reduced pow...

Texas Instruments has announced the availability of an embedded processor software toolkit developed for medical diagnostic ultrasound manufacturers. The first in a family of products, TI’s toolkit helps manufacturers quickly and easily develop ultrasound applications on the improved processing power of TI’s C64x+ DSP platforms, enabling clinics and practitioners to deliver faster, more accurate results to their patients.

Texas Instruments has introduced a family of high-reliability power management ICs and advanced CMOS logic devices to increase system-level reliability in applications exposed to long-term radiation and extreme temperatures, such as downhole drilling, x-ray imaging, satellite systems and high-altitude avionics.

Texas Instruments has introduced what it says is the industry’s fastest 24-bit delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter, which delivers speeds of up to four mega samples per second (MSPS) – 60 percent faster than the nearest competition.

Leveraging ultra-low power microcontroller and RF technologies from Texas Instruments, Sensys Networks' Wireless Vehicle Detection System has emerged as a leading traffic management solution because it operates accurately and reliably in harsh conditions for more than 10 years. The Sensys system combines state-of-the-art magnetic sensors with advanced packet radio technology, providing a cost-effective, dependable solution for a wide range of tr...

The new TMS320C6457 digital signal processor from Texas Instruments is available at speeds of 1.2 GHz and 1 GHz. It delivers up to 30 percent more performance at one-third less the cost of current single core DSP processors from TI.

Texas Instruments today extended its digital audio portfolio with two digital-input audio power amplifiers that combine 32 bits of advanced audio processing with 20 watts of stereo output power into a single device. The TAS5709 and TAS5710 support speaker equalization and dual-band dynamic range control and offer TI’s unique 3D and bass boost technology, which enhances the overall sound experience by widening the sound stage and improving b...

Texas Instruments has introduced a single-cell battery fuel gauge integrated circuit with Impedance Track technology, which is half the size of its predecessor. The tiny bq27505 stand-alone lithium battery capacity monitoring and reporting device resides in the system and measures only 2.5 x 2 x 0.625 mm, and supports portable applications, such as smart phones, digital cameras and MP3 players, where maintaining long battery life is critical for ...

Texas Instruments has introduced a single-cell battery fuel gauge integrated circuit with Impedance Track technology, which is half the size of its predecessor. The tiny bq27505 stand-alone lithium battery capacity monitoring and reporting device resides in the system and measures only 2.5 x 2 x 0.625 mm, and supports portable applications, such as smart phones, digital cameras and MP3 players, where maintaining long battery life is critical for ...

Texas Instruments has introduced a family of eight positive emitter-coupled logic (PECL) buffers, translators and splitters for clock and data management. These devices provide flexibility by operating at various power supplies of 2.5 V, 3.3 V and 5 V. The SN65LVEP11 is a 3-GHz differential, 1 to 2 fanout buffer that can operate in either a 3.3-V or 2.5-V power supply, which enables lower power consumption designs.

Texas Instruments has announced that the company will continue to develop and deliver hardware and software solutions for the new standardized ZigBee RF4CE specification for radio frequency (RF)-based remote controls. TI’s portfolio of ZigBee RF4CE system-on-chip products integrates an IEEE 802.15.4-compliant radio, MCU and flash memory, and an extensive set of peripherals. TI is a key contributor to the development of the ZigBee RF4CE vers...

Texas Instruments has announced that the company will continue to develop and deliver hardware and software solutions for the new standardized ZigBee RF4CE specification for radio frequency (RF)-based remote controls. TI’s portfolio of ZigBee RF4CE system-on-chip products integrates an IEEE 802.15.4-compliant radio, MCU and flash memory, and an extensive set of peripherals. TI is a key contributor to the development of the ZigBee RF4CE version ...

High-end control applications require high performance, floating-point precision and optimized control peripherals to meet stringent system efficiency, accuracy and reliability requirements. Addressing this need, Texas Instruments has announced the TMS320C2834x series of Delfino floating-point controllers that double performance to 300 MHz and include 516KB of single cycle access RAM memory, high resolution pulse width modulation outputs (PWMs), ...

Developers can now deliver pixel-perfect images in their digital video designs without concerns for video format support, network bandwidth or system storage capacity limitations with the new TMS320DM365 digital media processor based on DaVinci technology from Texas Instruments. The DM365 includes production-qualified H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MJPEG and VC1 codecs, an integrated image signal processing (ISP) solution for intelligent video processing...