Texas Instruments has introduced the company’s second-generation ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 radio-frequency (RF) transceiver designed for the 2.4 GHz unlicensed ISM (industrial, scientific, medical) frequency band. Featuring state-of-the-art selectivity/co-existence and excellent link budget, the CC2520 targets a wide variety of ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 and proprietary wireless systems used in industrial monitoring and control, home and building automati...

Consumers are demanding products with more intuitive user interfaces, advanced graphics and the ability to connect any and all devices to the Internet. To empower designers to address these needs, Texas Instruments has announced at the TI Developer Conference (TIDC) the availability of four new OMAP processors, based on the market’s first broad offering of the ARM Cortex-A8 core, providing an unprecedented combination of laptop-like perform...

Texas Instruments has introduced the industry’s first digital-input, 20W stereo Class-D speaker amplifier with closed loop feedback. Closed loop architectures produce a richer, more accurate sound and lower system cost by relaxing power supply performance requirements. Highly flexible output configurations along with intuitive support tools ease design and speed time to market for manufacturers of HDTVs, including LCD, plasma and DLP TVs, a...

Embedded control engineers prefer the simplified programming provided by floating-point architectures, but are often deterred by the higher cost. Addressing this paradox, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced what is said to be the first fixed-point digital signal controllers (DSCs) that are entirely compatible in hardware and software with high-performance floating-point DSCs. TI’s new TMS320F282x series of DSCs combine the a...

Texas Instruments Incorporated introduced today power distribution switches with an integrated FET that can be set to support a 100-mA to 1.1-A current limit range for a standard USB port or other applications requiring a current limited switch. The power management integrated circuit (IC) efficiently protects an input voltage supply against potential short-circuit conditions that may occur when using a USB connection in a mobile phone, notebook ...

Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced a precision power operational amplifier which operates on supplies up to 100V and delivers a high output current of ±50mA with a 150mA short circuit limit. The driving force for the OPA454 design was high-voltage test equipment, which requires a combination of high voltage with high DC accuracy and significant speed. Hence, the OPA454 is an attractive option for a wide range of precision op a...

Today at Mobile World Congress, Texas Instruments announced it will demonstrate an early look of the Android mobile platform in two forms: a prototype handset based on TI’s OMAP850 processor that also includes TI’s Wireless LAN (WLAN) and Bluetooth wireless technology solutions, as well as an OMAP3430 processor-based Zoom Mobile Development Kit from Logic PD.

Texas Instruments today introduced a 2VRMS DirectPath audio line driver targeting home entertainment applications where size and cost are critical design parameters. The latest addition to TI’s audio amplifier portfolio provides customers with the flexibility to operate from a 3.3V power supply to reduce total system cost and to adjust input gain levels to optimize performance in television peripherals such as set-top boxes, HDTV receivers,...

Texas Instruments has introduced a family of quad-channel digital-to-analog converters (DAC) with ultra-low glitch (0.15nV-s) and an internal 2.5V reference with 2ppm/C temperature drift and 0.02 percent initial accuracy. This multi-purpose family of 16-, 14- and 12-bit devices offers breakthrough multi-channel performance with the combination of high accuracy, low power consumption and small footprint, making them attractive options for portable...

At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Texas Instruments disclosed process and design advancements enabling the first 45 nanometer (nm) 3.5G baseband and multimedia processor addressing critical power challenges in the wireless market. TI’s expertise in chip technologies are increasing performance while lowering power requirements in this custom solution which the company recently began sampling in fourth quarter 2007 ...

Texas Instruments has introduced a single-chip wireless transmit processor that combines digital upconverter (DUC), crest factor reduction (CFR), and digital pre-distortion (DPD) linearization functions. The GC5322 device increases the efficiency of multi-carrier power amplifiers (PAs) in the RF transmit signal chain and eliminates the need for more costly high-performance RF power amplifier components. This enables basestation OEMs to achieve po...

Enabling the trend toward 'flat architectures' for the cellular network, Texas Instruments has announced the availability of a development platform for the recently ratified HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access Plus) standard. Based on the wireless infrastructure-optimized, multicore TMS320TCI6488 digital signal processor, the platform offers updated WCDMA Receive Accelerator (RAC) software drivers and a reference platform. Now, base station manufactu...

By combining the math of PHY processing with the logic of MAC processing onto a single chip, Texas Instruments has advanced the functionality of digital signal processors (DSPs) for complex, multiprocessing Beyond 3G cellular infrastructure applications such as HSPA/HSPA+, LTE and WiMAX Wave 2. This new 65nm, single-core 1 GHz DSP also doubles acceleration, delivering improved data throughput and reduced latency for better quality of service &nda...

Texas Instruments has introduced a four-channel wideband digital repeater evaluation module (EVM) that isolates up to four non-contiguous spectrum bands, each as wide as 35 MHz. The TSW4100 also offers a digital filter design tool for wireless basestation OEMs. Taking advantage of TI’s data converter and digital signal processing technologies, the EVM can be used to rapidly implement a proof-of-concept repeater design, reducing time to mark...

Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have unveiled a new chip design for portable electronics that can be up to ten times more energy-efficient than present technology. The design could lead to cell phones, implantable medical devices and sensors that last far longer when running from a battery.

Improving energy efficiency for electric metering systems by up to 30 percent and helping streamline utility business operations, Incotex Co. Ltd., Moscow is leveraging multiple technologies from Texas Instruments in its meter management solutions now being implemented throughout Russia, Kazahstan, the Ukraine and Belorussia. TI’s MSP430 microcontroller (MCU) and TMS320C2000 digital signal controller (DSC) technologies help utility companie...

Texas Instruments has introduced two new battery fuel gauge devices with integrated low-dropout regulators (LDOs) for smart phones, mobile Internet devices and media players with embedded or removable batteries. The new system-side and battery pack-side fuel gauges build on TI’s popular family of integrated circuits (ICs) that predict battery life with 99-percent accuracy to extend run-time, protect data and provide a better user experience...

Texas Instruments has introduced two new battery fuel gauge devices with integrated low-dropout regulators (LDOs) for smart phones, mobile Internet devices and media players with embedded or removable batteries. The new system-side and battery pack-side fuel gauges build on TI’s popular family of integrated circuits (ICs) that predict battery life with 99-percent accuracy to extend run-time, protect data and provide a better user experience...

A new family of 10- and 12-bit, eight-channel (octal) ADCs introduced by Texas Instruments features the industry’s lowest power consumption and smallest size. The new data converters enable smaller and more energy-efficient medical imaging, wireless communications, military guidance, automatic test equipment and video equipment. The ADS5281 family offers high resolution and sampling speeds of up to 65 million samples per second (MSPS), low ...

Texas Instruments has introduced a high-brightness LED driver with an integrated 40V, 1.2A switch that can drive up to three 1W LEDs in series. The new TPS61165 device's high-performance features and input voltage range of 3 to 18V allow designers to efficiently manage multiple high-power LEDs used in single-cell, battery-powered applications or point-of-load designs with a 9 or 12V bus.