Texas Instruments has introduced three new smart battery management integrated circuits that improve measurement and protection of multi-cell, lithium-based battery packs. The innovative controllers simplify design in multi-cell lithium-based rechargeable batteries used in uninterruptible power supplies and applications, such as cordless power tools, power-assisted bicycles, and portable medical and test equipment.

Texas Instruments has announced three devices that it says transcend traditional floating-point processors, enabling engineers to easily design more portable, connected, cost-efficient and high-precision end products. The three devices, based on TI’s new C674x DSP core, merge the inherent advantages of floating point with a combination of connectivity peripherals, low power and low cost that, until now, has only been available with fixed-po...

Texas Instruments has introduced a flexible four-channel video buffer that consumes 57 percent less power than its closest competitor. The new device also includes a power-down feature to lower system power consumption even more and help enable manufacturers to achieve ENERGY STAR compliance in set-top boxes (STBs) and personal and digital video recorders (PVRs and DVRs). The balance of ultra-low power and reduced space and cost also makes the am...

Texas Instruments has introduced a high-resolution (24-bit), high-speed (625kSPS) delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADS1672 features a unique combination of wide bandwidth, outstanding AC and DC performance, and a dual-path digital filter to give greater flexibility to designers of automated test equipment, test and measurement, medical instrumentation, vibration analysis and sonar/military equipment.

Texas Instruments has introduced two integrated analog front ends (AFEs) for handheld ultrasound systems. The newest members of TI’s AFE family for medical ultrasound, the industry-first 16-channel AFE5851 and the 8-channel AFE5801 bring breakthrough power efficiency and smaller footprint to support the new market for handheld ultrasound systems that can fit in a doctor’s pocket.

Texas Instruments has introduced three fully integrated power management and signal chain companion chips to support all system power requirements of an OMAP35x processor-based design. Combining leading power management circuits with TI’s low-power embedded processors results in optimized power and performance, leading to longer battery life and system run-time.

Texas Instruments has introduced what it says is the market’s first 16-bit, single-channel, 200 mega samples per second (MSPS) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to provide faster speeds previously only available with lower resolution ADCs. The new data converters enable new levels of performance in communications, test and measurement, and defense applications. Evaluation modules (EVMs) simplify design and enable rapid evaluations of these ...

Texas Instruments and Ittiam Systems today announced a new feature rich customizable and scalable Internet Protocol (IP) video phone solution based on TI’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) and software, allowing equipment manufacturers who are building IP phones to introduce video phone products into their portfolio without costly redesigns. Leveraging TI’s existing Gigabit Ethernet IP phone platform with Telogy Software™ for VoIP, high-p...

Texas Instruments has introduced what it says is the industry’s highest accuracy digital-to-analog converter (DAC), which features 18-bit monotonic performance, ±2 LSB integral nonlinearity (INL), ±1 LSB differential nonlinearity (DNL). Delivered in a small QFN-24 package, the DAC9881 enables customers to increase system performance and simplify designs in precision industrial applications such as automatic test equipment, ins...

Texas Instruments has announced the first DOCSISR 3.0 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) data and video gateway product that supports eight downstream channels of DOCSIS and/or digital video supporting frequency anywhere within the spectrum. Based on a flexible and scalable architecture, TI Puma 5 DOCSIS 3.0 cable products enable OEMs Original Equipment Manufacturer) to develop products that provide an efficient migration path to f...

Texas Instruments has announced the availability of a new secure multi-purpose contactless chip designed for the growing closed-loop contactless micropayment, loyalty, ID and access application markets. TI’s ISO/IEC 14443 Type B chip called the RF-HCT-WRC5-KP221, (also available in module form), combines processing speed, advanced radio frequency (RF) performance and industry-standard security with a flexible and configurable memory that su...

Texas Instruments has introduced a support tool that enables designers to rapidly evaluate signal chain performance for test and measurement, industrial and communications applications, including arbitrary waveform and signal generators. The development kit simplifies the complexity of interfacing between high-speed digital-to-analog converters (DAC) and amplifiers and includes clocking and power management devices to further ease design and redu...

Intelligent Digital Integrated Security Co., Ltd. (IDIS), a leading provider of digital video surveillance solutions, announces it is utilizing Texas Instruments Incorporated’s (TI’s) TMS320DM6446 digital media processor based on DaVinci technology for two video surveillance-focused product lines. IDIS is delivering a low-cost, four channel Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and an Internet Protocol (IP) video transmitter and receiver for I...

As chips add new functionality and system designs evolve away from boards and toward multi-chip system-on-chip (SoC) architectures, developers of handheld and consumer electronics are faced with stricter pin and package constraints. Texas Instruments, a key member of the IEEE working group, announced that it is driving the ratification of the IEEE 1149.7 standard, a new two-pin test and debug interface standard that supports half the number of pi...

Texas Instruments has introduced an evaluation module (EVM) that combines TI’s fastest 14-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) in an interleaved fashion with a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA to create the best-performing high-speed digitizer solution in the market. The FPGA comes pre-installed with SP Devices’ proprietary time-interleaving technology to eliminate interleaving spurs, which enhances performance and facilitates rapid system-lev...

Texas Instruments has introduced an analog-input audio subsystem that integrates TI's field-proven stereo Class-D power amplifier and stereo DirectPathTM headphone amplifier into one compact package. The audio subsystem is highly flexible, enabling customers to choose different input-to-output configurations and program design parameters to optimize audio performance. Integrating all amplifier channels into one integrated circuit reduces bill of ...

Texas Instruments has introduced a four-channel serializer/deserializer (SerDes) IC that enables high-speed, bi-directional, point-to-point data transmission with up to 30 Gbps. The device has the flexibility to be configured either as a XAUI or 10 GFC transceiver. This multi-rate transceiver supports a wide data bandwidth range from 600 Mbps to 3.75 Gbps per serial lane to address design challenges in a variety of applications such as gigabit Et...

With the February 2009 transition from analogue to digital TVs, consumer demand on energy resources is increasing. Two power management chips from Texas Instruments, a dual-phase power factor correction (PFC) controller with Natural Interleaving technology and a new SWIFT DC/DC power management converter, will help increase energy efficiency and reduce system size and cost in Digital TVs.

Texas Instruments has announced a high-linearity, ultra-low noise quadrature (IQ) modulator that delivers RF output transmission up to 4 GHz, allowing service providers to easily support multiple wireless communications standards on a single RF transceiver card. TI’s TRF370317 IQ modulator is a direct launch RF transmitter device that offers basestation equipment manufacturers improved linearity and higher output power, which can improve ov...

Texas Instruments has announced a high-linearity, ultra-low noise quadrature (IQ) modulator that delivers RF output transmission up to 4 GHz, allowing service providers to easily support multiple wireless communications standards on a single RF transceiver card. TI’s TRF370317 IQ modulator is a direct launch RF transmitter device that offers basestation equipment manufacturers improved linearity and higher output power, which can improve ov...