Texas Instruments has announced that Polycom has selected TI’s field-proven digital signal processing (DSP) technology to power its new SoundPoint IP 670 desktop phone. Texas Instruments’ DSP technology and Polycom’s software and systems expertise align to create a unique high definition (HD) lifelike voice quality experience for Polycom’s business customers and to further extend Polycom’s innovative family of IP phones. The two compani...

Texas Instruments Incorporated, today announced that NICE Systems has selected TI’s TMS320DM6467 digital media processor based on DaVinci™ technology for its next-generation NiceVision Net edge devices as part of its complete end-to-end solution for IP video surveillance. The programmable DM6467 performs advanced encoding and compression, as well as video streaming and analytics to a central location.

To meet the widespread global demand for DOCSIS 3.0® (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) products and services, Texas Instruments Incorporated’s Israeli engineering team is creating innovative cable modem, set-top-box and video gateway chipsets that help operators and manufacturers deliver blazing data transfer speeds and compelling multimedia services. TI’s world-class lab, located in Herzelia, Israel, allows TI to deliver nex...

Texas Instruments Incorporated introduced today a 4.5V to 52V wide-input voltage boost controller, intended for industrial and battery-powered applications where the output is a regulated current instead of a regulated voltage. In addition, TI launched two integrated low-dropout regulators with internal protection circuits that simplify power design for industrial systems.

Texas Instruments today introduced the industry’s most highly integrated digital-input serialiser, which incorporates eight channels and flexible features to provide high-density signal conditioning in a single, compact device. The new serialiser converts eight digital inputs, ranging from 0 V to 34 V, into a single data stream on SPI interface, which simplifies the design and saves overall board space for industrial automation and test and...

Texas Instruments Incorporated announced today that TI has joined the newly formed RF4CE (Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics) Consortium. This consortium is designed to create a new protocol that will enable development of radio frequency remote controls which replace IR remote controls, deliver richer communications, increase reliability and improve flexibility. As a key contributor to this technology, TI will provide both hardware and sof...

Texas Instruments (TI) has announced that it has acquired Florida-based Innovative Design Solutions (IDS) for its expertise in developing analog chips and integrated solutions. The acquisition reinforces TI’s analog focus and strengthens the company’s ability to meet customer requirements for high-performance analog products.

Texas Instruments (TI) has announced that its OMAP2430 applications processor was selected to deliver advanced multimedia capabilities to Fujitsu’s new F1100 smart phone. The new Fujitsu handset, which also uses TI’s Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity technology, is the first Windows Mobile phone available with NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA technology.

Helping display manufacturers meet demands for more efficient power technologies in displays, Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced an innovative, six-channel, 40-V white light emitting diode (LED) driver with a built-in, high-efficiency boost regulator and 1.5-A FET. The smallest LED driver to manage up to 60 white LEDs at once, the TPS61181 provides high power efficiency and accurate current regulation for medium-sized displays used in notebook...

TI has introduced a pair of ±10V, 16-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADC) with excellent measurement repeatability and high resolution. Both the ADS8519 and ADS8513 combine a low-power successive approximation register (SAR) ADC with sample and hold, clock, reference and a serial data interface. The devices’ high integration enables design in industrial process control, DSP servo control, robotics, test equipment, portable data acq...

Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced a dual-channel, high-speed current feedback amplifier. The device features 70 percent greater bandwidth gain at +2 V/V than competitive devices, providing fast signal conditioning with the highest linearity to minimize distortion for better signal fidelity and easier filtering.

Texas Instruments has announced a breakthrough generation of ultra-low power MSP430 microcontrollers (MCU), offering the industry’s lowest power consumption for devices that can provide up to 25 MHz peak performance, increased Flash and RAM memory and integrated peripherals such as radio frequency (RF), USB, encryption and LCD interfaces. With as low as 160 µA/MHz (microamp per megahertz) active power consumption and 1.5 µA in s...

Texas Instruments has introduced a low-power serializer/deserializer (SerDes) device that provides a fast relock time and supports a wide data bandwidth range from 1 to 2.6 Gbps in point-to-point data transmission systems. The SerDes transceiver’s independent transmit and receive channels allow asynchronous data rate operation. This capability gives designers flexibility to develop Ethernet passive optical network (EPON) optical line termin...

Logic and Texas Instruments have released a development kit specifically designed to quickly bring new medical products to market. The new Zoom Medical OMAP35x Development Kit and companion System on Modules (SOMs) use TI’s OMAP35x processor to provide developers with a cost-effective, compact way to design and produce medical, industrial and other embedded applications.

The EnOcean Alliance and Texas Instruments have announced that TI has become a full member and participating company in the recently established EnOcean Alliance. The Alliance was founded last month to establish a global standard for sustainable buildings based upon EnOcean´s revolutionary energy-harvesting wireless technology.

Texas Instruments has introduced a family of high- or low-side measurement, bi-directional current shunt monitor integrated circuits (ICs) in SC70 packages. Utilizing a zero-drift bi-directional architecture, the INA210 family provides outstanding accuracy up to 1 percent over the -40C to +125C temperature range, with 35uV maximum offset. The near elimination of offset with zero-drift reduces the voltage drop and power dissipation in the accompan...

Making it easier to jump-start 32-bit based digital power and embedded control designs, Texas Instruments today announced five new experimenter and application-specific development kits for its TMS320F28x digital signal controllers (DSCs). The modular kits enable rapid prototyping of DSC based applications with interchangeable processor card modules, or controlCARDs, Experimenter Kits with breadboard areas for full access to device signals, and a...

Texas Instruments has introduced a power supply controller for unregulated output voltages that achieves up to 97 percent system efficiency in an intermediate bus architecture. The controller allows intermediate bus architecture power systems to combine the highest amount of energy savings, high power-density and low system costs in telecom and data communication systems with multiple downstream point-of-load conversions.

Texas Instruments has announced two multi-channel, 16-bit, delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), which combine outstanding DC accuracy and AC performance with cost-effective integration. The ADS1174 (4-channel) and ADS1178 (8-channel) provide a simultaneous-sampling measurement system for demanding signal acquisition applications, such as power metering, defibrillators and ECG monitors, as well as pressure sensors, coriolis flow meters...

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced today an organic light emitting diode (OLED) power driver designed to enhance image quality for small form factor displays up to 2.5 inches. The TPS65136 power integrated circuit supports active matrix OLED (AMOLED) displays used in mobile phones, digital cameras and portable media players.