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New development environment cuts coding time

Third-party plug-ins extend robust development environment

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Free evaluation tools: Try it before you buy it

$100 million ventrue capital fund seeds fresh ideas

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TI extends the "C6000 platform to new levels of performance and affordability

New 'C6000 development platforms support faster development time

Fastest floating-point DSP now sampling

New 'C6000 app notes on the Internet

TI expands the industry's lowest power DSP platform

TI Translation Assistant Program simplifies upgrades from 'C5x to high-performance 'C54x

New 'C549/'C5410 application notes on the Web

Hands-on experience through online training

New 'F24x DSPs with on-chip Flash speed time-to-market

Third-party support simplifies 'F240 development

Fastest low-power, 10-bit, 1.25-MSPS serial ADC

Integrated supply-voltage supervisor and watchdog timer in SOT-23 package

New Third-party hardware and software

CD-ROM Third-party Guide

TI posts "Y2K Ready" status on the Web

TI posts "Y2K Ready" status on the Web

Texas Instruments is taking a proactive approach to the Year 2000 (Y2K) challenge with teams working this issue since 1995. TI is addressing Y2K readiness in four areas: our extended enterprise, physical plant, products, and information technology. TI’s Internet site answers most questions about TI’s Y2K readiness and provides contact points for further questions.

Specifically for TI DSP products and tools, Y2K readiness assessments have been or are being completed with status reporting and any corrective actions identified. TI has published detailed "Y2K Ready" status charts of TI products, now ready for your review on the TI Y2K Internet web site. TI is using this site to inform customers about its Y2K Program and product readiness status.

Regarding development tools, TI is carefully testing DSP and microcontroller software development tools. The majority of TI’s tools are "Y2K Ready." However, ongoing assessments have identified some date-related issues associated with a few of these tools, specifically TI’s Tartan™ Ada Development Systems for ’C3x/’C4x and DSP and microcontroller development tools that include C runtime libraries date display. The company believes these issues are unlikely to cause a significant problem for designers in that they only affect the display of date information under specific rare circumstances, and not calculations or comparisons of dates.

Unrelated to the Year 2000 issue, TI is also advising customers of the possibility of an incorrect date display when using the local time function in the C runtime libraries for programs that are 16-bit integer architecture, such as the TMS320C54x. Based on classic use patterns of C runtime libraries, TI believes this function would be rarely used, if at all, and TI has not received reports of problems from customers. This is not an issue for the 32-bit integer architectures, such as the TMS320C6000 family.

To get more specifics and to validate your own Y2K readiness, TI recommends that users of these development tools and all other TI products go to TI’s Year 2000 Readiness Internet site and take the following actions:

  1. Review the "Year 2000 Ready" status of all TI DSP products that you or your company use.

  2. For affected development tools, download corrective patches from TI’s Internet site at no charge, as they become available.

  3. Avoid use of the specific date and time software routines in affected TI development tools until you have installed corrective patches.

  4. Examine your own software code or applications programs that you may have created using these products in order to determine whether they might have Year 2000 or other date-related issues.

  5. Periodically monitor TI’s Y2K Internet site for the latest information.

www.ti.com/year2000/

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