Texas Instruments has introduced the industry's first System-on-Chip (SoC) solution with a hardware location engine targeting low-power ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networking applications. The CC2431, from the company's Chipcon product line, targets applications such as asset and equipment tracking, inventory control, patient monitoring, remote controls, security and commissioning networks. The device is supported by TI's leading ZigBee ...

Texas Instruments has introduced the industry's first System-on-Chip (SoC) solution with a hardware location engine targeting low-power ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networking applications. The CC2431, from the company's Chipcon product line, targets applications such as asset and equipment tracking, inventory control, patient monitoring, remote controls, security and commissioning networks. The device is supported by TI's leading ZigBee...

Texas Instruments and Network Physics have announced a far-reaching development initiative centered on delivering optimized end-user experiences for VoIP and IPTV services. Designed around TI's PIQUAT quality management system, the partnership will further help service providers and enterprise IT managers deliver important real-time visibility into performance related problems and provide automated corrective actions that can be deployed to miti...

Texas Instruments has introduced a low-phase noise clock generator that provides best-in-class jitter performance at 380 femtoseconds (fs) (rms at 10 kHz to 20 MHz). The device incorporates crystal oscillator (XO) circuitry with a fully-integrated frequency synthesizer supporting a wide output frequency range from 10.9 MHz up to 766.7 MHz and from 875.2 MHz up to 1175 MHz, easing design for customers designing Ethernet, fibre channel, PCI Express...

Texas Instruments has today introduced the industry's smallest low-power, single-channel Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) serializer/deserializer (SerDes) device, enabling higher densities in data communications and telecommunications equipment. The new interface device combines a small 6-mm x 6-mm package with low power consumption at 200 mW to reduce board size and complexity and save power in Ethernet passive optical networks (EPON), GbE switches/router...

Texas Instruments has announced what it says is the industry's first floating point digital signal controllers. The new TMS320F2833x devices provide 300 million floating point instructions per second (MFLOPS) performance at 150 MHz while providing the lower costs typically associated with fixed point processors. Simplified software development common to floating-point processors and the performance boost allows solar power inverters to more effic...

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas will present a live Analog eLab™ Webcast for designers entitled “Improved Procedures for Selecting an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)” on Wednesday, June 13, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. CST (18:00 hrs CET). The Webcast will highlight the pitfalls encountered when evaluating an ADC for a design, and the importance of selecting the proper tools. TI analog exper...

Texas Instruments has announced an integrated +/-1C maximum remote junction temperature sensor and local temperature sensor, designed to monitor thermal diodes found in CPUs, microprocessors, graphics processing units and FPGAs. Unlike other devices, the TMP411 features programmable series resistance cancellation and diode non-ideality correction which simplify and remove the time-consuming process of individual processor resistance calibration c...

Continuing to broaden its digital signal controller (DSC) portfolio, Texas Instruments has announced volume availability of TMS320F28044 and F2809 digital signal controllers. These devices offer 100 MIPS of 32-bit digital signal processing (DSP) performance optimized for industrial applications like digital power management, servo motor control and intelligent sensor control. The F28044 controller allows power system designers to transition to so...

Texas Instruments has introduced the industry's first single-chip, interleaved, transition-mode power factor correction (PFC) control circuit that helps lower power system cost and save energy in consumer applications, such as digital TVs, personal computers and entry-level server platforms. TI will showcase the controller and other innovative power management technology at the Power Conversion and Intelligent Motion (PCIM) conference in Nurember...

Ratcheting voice quality one notch higher, Texas Instruments has deployed its TelinnovationT echo canceller software across several digital signal processor (DSP) platforms including the carrier infrastructure optimized TNETV3020, as well as TMS320C64xT- and TMS320C64x+T -based devices. As the most widely-deployed echo canceller solution in the industry, delivering over 1 billion calls per day, the Telinnovation echo canceller has been improving ...

Texas Instruments is convening a series of technical training sessions on its DaVinci processors in European locations. Details and dates are as follows:

As automotive tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS) mandates come into effect and torque sensing applications like electronic power steering (EPS) become standard on even low- to mid-range cars, Texas Instruments has announced that Transense Technologies plc is using its TMS320F28x digital signal controllers as a key component in the automotive industry's first targeted piezo-electric surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor based systems. Operating i...

Texas Instruments has introduced its third-generation Fusion Digital PowerT controllers and new plug-in modules that more intelligently manage today's power systems. The highly configurable and feature-rich products digitally manage up to four independent digital-control loops and up to eight phases, while improving energy efficiency up to 30 percent during light load conditions.

As utility companies adopt electronic-based meter reading technology to reduce costs while offering new services and energy-saving consumer options, Texas Instruments has announced the sampling of its 16 MHz MSP430F47x4 ultra-low power microcontrollers (MCU) for one- and multi-phase metering. By integrating up to four individual 16-bit sigma delta analog to digital converters (ADCs), a 32x32-bit hardware multiplier, a 160 segment LCD driver with ...

Expanding its portfolio of eXpressDSP™ digital media software for rapid product development, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) and Ittiam Systems today announced the availability of several audio and video codecs which will be offered through TI’s Authorized Software Providers (ASPs). The new offerings include: H.264 Main Profile (MP) encode, WMV9 MP encode, MPEG-2 encode, MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile encode/decode, Div...

Texas Instruments has announced that it was awarded the North American Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Award 2007 by Microsoft during the Microsoft Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference. TI earned the recognition in the silicon category for Windows Embedded CE innovation with DaVinciT technology and the OMAPT platform.

Continuing to simplify development of digital video products with the most comprehensive selection of production-ready software, Texas Instruments has introduced the eXpressDSPT Digital Media Software Standard (xDM), a low-level application programming interface (API) for DSP-based software that provides a framework for seamlessly integrating and exchanging multiple codecs within an application. As an integral part of TI's offering to digital v...

Texas Instruments has introduced a 24-bit audio codec that supports asynchronous operation, allowing the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to operate with independent clocks. In applications such as DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD recorders, digital televisions, digital set-top boxes and car navigation systems, audio signals often need to be decoded and encoded at separate sampling rates, which drives the need for an asyn...

Texas Instruments has introduced a pair of voltage-output, high-side current sense monitors with a wide common-mode input range of -16V to +80V. The INA270 and INA271 also feature a two-stage architecture to ease the design of circuits requiring additional filtering of the current signal. The devices are especially suited for current measurement applications in automotive, motor control, power management and battery charging.