Texas Instruments has announced a new single-chip device that is expected to drive GPS applications into mainstream mobile phones. Built on TI's DRPT single-chip technology, the NaviLinkT 5.0 solution has a footprint of 25mm2, delivering high performance with the industry's smallest solution size and lowest bill of materials, making GPS more affordable to accelerate adoption in mobile phones. The new NaviLink 5.0 GPS receiver architecture provid...

Texas Instruments has introduced a precision voltage-to-current converter/transmitter designed for standard 0-20mA and 4-20mA analog signals, as well as 5-25mA signals and voltage outputs. The XTR111 can deliver current up to 36mA and boasts output error detection and output disable. This new device, from the company's Burr-Brown product line, features low supply current of 500uA, low drift span of 5ppm/C and a wide 7V to 44V supply range. The XT...

Texas Instruments has partnered with EWA Blackhawk to deliver the XDS560T Trace module, a non-intrusive, hardware-based trace tool offering advanced visibility and capabilities for debugging the specialized problems that arise in high-performance, real-time embedded applications, as well as for fine-tuning code performance and cache optimization of complex multi-channel applications. Real-time visibility and a high-speed interface provide develop...

Texas Instruments has leveraged its DSC silicon and expertise to offer a production-ready software reference design, based on DaVinciT technology. Manufacturers can use the reference design to bring the type of burst capture performance found today only in digital single-lens reflex (D-SLR) cameras to low-cost, point-and-shoot digital cameras. In addition, by enabling high-definition (HD) video on digital cameras priced as low as $99, TI is set...

The next 25 years of digital signal processing technology will literally integrate hundreds of processors on a single chip to conceive applications beyond our imagination, said Mike Hames, senior vice president, Texas Instruments Incorporated. Addressing electronics industry leaders in his keynote remarks today to open the 5th annual Texas Instruments Developer Conference (TIDC), Hames envisions a world where clothing can alert you of medical pro...

Texas Instruments has announced the immediate availability of samples of two new digital signal processors (DSPs) - the TMS320C6424 DSP and the TMS320C6421 DSP - that deliver more than 2.5X price/performance improvement, helping OEMs lower overall cost per channel of telecom enterprise gateway and IP-PBX products. Additional applications that are well-suited for the C642x DSPs include printers, scanners, copiers and wireless applications such as ...

Texas Instruments has announced a new version of its Code Composer StudioT Platinum Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The new Code Composer Studio Platinum, version 3.3 (CCStudio v3.3) raises multiprocessor support and analysis features to a much higher level to meet the rapidly evolving needs of advanced embedded system development. With enhanced features such as a new unified breakpoint manager, cache visibility tools, and fully integra...

Texas Instruments has announced the TMS320C6727B DSP, its highest performing floating-point DSP running at 350 MHz. Available today, the C6727B DSP is tuned for performance hungry applications for which a significant speed increase will impact OEM's ability to create unique and advanced product offerings, including high quality audio conferencing, multi-channel audio systems, audio broadcast biometric and industrial solutions. TI's floating-point...

Continuing to drive the adoption of DSP technology in the next generation of digital video applications, Texas Instruments has released the TMS320DM6437 Digital Video Development Platform (DVDP) for its DM643x digital media processors announced last quarter. The DM6437 DVDP brings the complete DaVinciT technology development environment to these processors by bundling a full TMS320DM6437 evaluation module (EVM) with a complete suite of DaVinci de...

Texas Instruments has introduced a 24-bit, 96-kHz digital audio interface receiver that provides the industry's best jitter performance as low as 50 ps RMS, which is four times better than the nearest stand-alone receiver. This highly-integrated device reduces the number of external components required and enhances sound quality in applications such as AV/DVD receivers and amplifiers, automotive audio systems, digital televisions, musical instru...

Texas Instruments has introduced a family of ORing power controllers with advanced features and high performance that improves power distribution in 12-V blade servers, N+1 telecom systems and redundant low-voltage processor power supplies. The integrated circuits provide a high-efficiency replacement for ORing diodes, and offer intelligent monitoring and control of power supplies to prevent bus transient events from causing board-damaging faults...

Bringing high integration and ultra low power to complex, deeply embedded industrial sensing applications including portable medical systems, Texas Instruments Incorporated announced volume availability of the MSP430FG461x series of ultra-low power MCUs with up to 120KB flash memory. As the first devices to incorporate the MSP430X architecture—with extended 1MB memory model—the MSP430FG461x series is designed for today’s larger ...

To make DaVinci™ technology accessible to an ever increasing base of digital video developers, Texas Instruments Incorporated is releasing a Software Development Kit (SDK) based on DaVinci technology for use with the Windows® Embedded CE operating system. This SDK is specifically designed for use with the TMS320DM6443 and TMS320DM6446 system-on-chip (SoC) processors based on DaVinci technology. The SDK will empower developers who prefer...

Texas Instruments Incorporated introduced today a highly integrated boost converter that supports 27-V of output voltage and improves battery life in portable industrial and medical applications, such as portable diagnostic systems.

Speaking today at a press conference at the 3GSM World Congress, Rich Templeton, president and chief executive officer of Texas Instruments Incorporated, said that TI’s single-chip technology will provide consumers in emerging economies “complete, global access to the Internet, information, people, opportunities and entertainment.” New TI innovations for feature phones with high-definition (HD) playback and 3D graphics will make the cell ph...

At a press conference today at 3GSM World Congress, Texas Instruments Incorporated demonstrated the industry’s first application processor to playback 720p high-definition (HD) video for high-end mobile phones. The OMAP3430 solution is also the first application processor to integrate the newly-defined OpenGL ES® 2.0 graphic standard, bringing “life-like” 3D graphics to the handset and creating a mobile gaming experience com...

New subscriber rates are experiencing meteoric growth in emerging markets worldwide, with demand for affordable handsets continuing to rise. Addressing this phenomenon at a press conference at 3GSM World Congress, Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced its third generation GSM solution for the ultra low-cost handset market, specifically designed to enhance the user experience with added features and improvements. This includes dramatic im...

Texas Instruments has announced the availability of its newest DSP-based carrier infrastructure processor with exceptional voice and video processing capabilities, setting the stage for converged multimedia services over both fixed line and mobile applications. TI's newest infrastructure platform offers unmatched features to carriers and OEMs, providing them a high-performance product at the lowest total cost of ownership while offering the best ...

Texas Instruments has announced the industry's most highly integrated digital signal processor (DSP) targeted toward Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) base stations. This new three-core DSP, running at 1GHz per core, supports all of the necessary baseband functions required for a macro base station - on a single chip. Designed specifically to solve problems at a system level, this baseband on a chip eliminates the need for FPGAs, AS...

Texas Instruments has announced two new devices built on the company's leading DRPT single-chip technology designed to drive affordable WLAN, Bluetooth® and FM technologies into mass market handsets. The first product is WiLinkT 6.0, a single chip that is the latest member of TI's mobile WLAN (mWLAN) family, and is the industry's first device to integrate a complete offering of mobile WLAN, Bluetooth and FM, with support for IEEE draft 802.11...