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TI Introduces GUI-Configurable Digital Power Controllers for Point-of-Load Systems
Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced four new Fusion Digital PowerT products that enable point-of-load digital power management in telecom and data-centric applications. TI plans to demonstrate several innovative digital power platforms, including its new configurable, dual-phase synchronous buck controller, at the Digital Power Forum (DPF) 2006 in Dallas, September 18-20.
Digital Signal Controller Handles Up To 16 DC/DC Converters
Texas Instruments has announced the availability of the TMS320F28044 digital signal controller targeted at multi-channel point of load applications such as telecommunications and networking infrastructure equipment, servers, laptop computers, and industrial equipment. The new F28044 controller is the industry's only device to offer the ability to manage up to 16 DC/DC converter channels using a single programmable controller with 100 MIPS of DSP ...
DLP® LightCrafter™ From Texas Instruments: Enabling Big Innovations In Light Steering From A Compact, Ready-To-Use Module
Texas Instruments DLP Products today announced DLP LightCrafter, the latest, most advanced platform for modern developers seeking to harness spatial light steering ability for a multitude of applications and products within industrial, medical, security and scientific instrument markets. This evaluation module is the next advancement of tools created to empower developers with components to utilise reliable, award-winning DLP technology in new an...
TI DSCs Bring Performance and Integration For Real-time Acoustic Triangulation In Team SONIA’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Developing higher performance autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) that are smaller and less complex, Team SONIA, comprised of students from the École de technologie supérieure (ETS) in Quebec, Canada, have integrated Texas Instruments Incorporated’s TMS320F28x digital signal controller (DSC) technology into their new vehicle, which will compete in the 10th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition in San Diego, ...
Floating Point Digital Signal Controllers From TI Enable Greener Industrial Applications
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...
National Instruments joins the growing ElectroTestExpo community
The ElectroTestExpo consortium is pleased to announce that National Instruments has joined the growing ElectroTestExpo community and will be exhibiting at the Cambridge event – at the Trinity Centre on the Cambridge Science Park on Wednesday 23rd May. The company will also be giving a presentation as part of ElectroTestExpo’s seminar programme. Entitled ‘Customising Measurements and Analysis with PXI and FPGA Technology’, the presentation...
Touch Sensor for Portable and Cost-Sensitive Applications Features Low Power Consumption
STMicroelectronics has announced a new family of ultra-low-power touch-sensor chips, following the signing of a technology-licensing agreement with the Korean company ATLab, Inc. The sensors are intended for portable applications such as mobile phones, PDAs, notebook PCs and media players, as well as for the cost-sensitive white-goods market. The new ‘S-Touch’ family uses ATLab’s capacitive touch-sensing technology, which is based on a full...
Sharp- UV2A LC alignment for improvement of LCD TV panels
The alignment of the liquid crystal molecules in a predetermined direction is key for the image performance of any LCD; the better the alignment of the molecules the greater the static contrast and the light transmission of the panel. Controlling the alignment and movement of the liquid crystals is also essential for wide viewing angles.
Handbook gives tips on private equity investment
The National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) has published a private equity investment handbook for semiconductor start-ups. Featuring a series of articles from successful UK silicon entrepreneurs and specialist venture capital investors, it aims to provide readers with a real-world insight into the major aspects of the fund-raising process. The handbook is free to download from www.nmi.org
Toshiba Announces New Deserializer Display Bridge Chip For Mobile Devices
Toshiba Electronics Europe today announced a new deserializer display bridge chip (TC358762XBG). The device connects the baseband or application processors used in smart phones, which use Mobile Industry Processor Interface-Display Serial Interfaces (MIPI®-DSI), to displays with legacy parallel interfaces. This capability allows OEMs to implement the power of an advanced mobile processor in other mobile applications beyond smart phones where h...