Since its inception, the wireless market has grown rapidly. At first, growth was measured as subscriber growth with a focus on voice, but now, it is measured by data rate and throughput improvements. Arguably wireless spectrum is the wireless operators’ most precious resource.

With the consumer drive for more and more data, worldwide operators are experiencing an unprecedented need for wireless bandwidth growth. Fortunately, the industry – along with standards bodies such as 3GPP – is evolving support such demand.

Inspiring the engineering leaders of tomorrow, Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced it has once again joined forces with FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) as a Crown Supplier of the FIRST Robotics Competition. TI provides innovative technology and support to excite students about studying science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects and to inspire them to pursue careers in engineering.

Texas Instruments Incorporated lance aujourd’hui un émetteur-récepteur de ligne différentiel isolé semi-duplex avec circuit de pilotage de transformateur intégré. Le composant ISO1176T fournit la tension primaire nécessaire pour un transformateur d’isolation et constitue – en association avec un transformateur, un redresseur et un régulateur extérieurs – le sys...

Simplifying programming to speed design, Texas Instruments Incorporated and Visual Solutions today announced that VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer v8.0 (VisSim) provides full, model-based support for TI’s new TMS320C2000™ Piccolo floating-point microcontrollers (MCUs). The software enables rapid application development, as it visually supports algorithm creation, bit-true simulation, device initialization, prototyping and production C code ...

Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced the industry’s smallest, most efficient step-down regulators with integrated FETs to support up to 25 A for telecommunications, networking and other applications.

Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced the industry’s first floating-point microcontroller (MCU) for extreme temperature operation from -55°C to 210°C. Exceeding the traditional 150°C limit for other high-temperature semiconductors, the SM320F28335-HT Delfino 32-bit MCU provides high-reliability, high-performance, real-time measurement and control for manufacturers of electronics operating in harsh and hot environments,...

This video showcases some of the enhanced consumer experiences enabled by TI's OMAP™ 5 platform technology.

Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced the industry’s first two-channel, simultaneous-sampling successive approximation (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with two independently controlled internal references for simplified system-level design. The 16-bit ADS8363, 14-bit ADS7263 and 12-bit ADS7223 are pin-for-pin compatible and provide twice the per-channel throughput of similar ADCs, supporting speeds up to 1 MSPS for indus...

Texas Instruments Incorporated expands its DaVinci digital media processor platform by introducing its high-performance TMS320DM8168 DaVinci digital media processor and the software compatible, power-efficient TMS320DM8148 DaVinci digital media processor. With these industry-leading video processors, TI is helping provide life-like video communications to bring people together, increase public safety, enable real-time automotive vision systems to...

Texas Instruments introduced two power management development kits, which help designers generate the cleanest possible positive and negative voltage rails to power today’s analog circuits. The new TPS54060 and TPS7A30/49 development kits remove switching noise and increase the performance of data converters, operational amplifiers, clocks and other signal chain devices.

Texas Instruments has showcased an Android 2.2 software development platform, designed to simplify the mobile device integration of the ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE protocol stacks. A first for the industry, mobile device manufacturers can now connect directly to the growing consumer electronics and smart home application markets. Resulting use cases enable consumers to manage commands like smart TV and set-top-box (STB) remote control features or uti...

Texas Instruments unveiled a new multistandard wireless base station System-on-Chip (SoC) delivering double the LTE performance and a 2x power/performance improvement over existing macro and compact base station SoC solutions developed in 40-nm process technology. Based on TI’s new TMS320C66x digital signal processor (DSP) generation, the TMS320TCI6618 utilizes a strategic design approach that accelerates the well-defined standard aspects o...

Texas Instruments in collaboration with Azcom Technology, a leading provider of services and solutions in the wireless communications domain, today announced the availability of a new small cell base station platform focused on 3G and 4G high speed data systems. Based on TI’s KeyStone multicore architecture and industry leading TMS320C66x digital signal processor (DSP) core, the TMDXSCBP6616X supports multi-carrier HSPA+ systems as well as ...

Texas Instruments today announced its TMS320C66x DSP core, which is at the heart of TI’s multicore DSPs. At 1.5 GHz, TI’s C66x DSP surpasses the performance of any other DSP in the industry, achieving the highest scores on both fixed-and floating-point performance in benchmark tests conducted by the independent third-party analysis firm, Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI).

transformer driver. The ISO1176T provides the primary voltage for an isolation transformer and, in conjunction with an external transformer, rectifier and regulator, provides the smallest isolated signal and power system design with highest efficiency and lowest electromagnetic interference (EMI).

Texas Instruments introduced the industry’s widest bandwidth, fully-integrated transmit/receive processors with digital pre-distortion (DPD) for 3G and 4G wireless base stations, remote radio heads and government communication systems. The GC533x family features a duo of turn-key processors that provide a complete and highly flexible digital transmit and receive solution for wide-bandwidth and multi-antenna wireless base stations at a fract...

Responding to the growing need for increasing channel densities and higher quality media services in mobile networks, Texas Instruments is offering the industry’s highest performance multimedia solution based on its TMS320C6678 digital signal processor (DSP). Ideal for applications such as multimedia gateways, IMS media servers, video conferencing servers and video broadcast equipment, the C6678 offers OEMs a highly dense media solution that is...

Texas Instruments announced today the next generation of its popular OMAP family: the OMAP 5 mobile applications platform, which is positioned to transform how mobile devices, such as Smartphones, tablets and other mobile form factors are used, making them even more valuable in our daily lives.

This video showcases some of the enhanced consumer experiences enabled by TI's OMAP™ 5 platform technology.