Texas Instruments has acquired Tartan, Inc., a leading independent
provider of software tools for developers of digital signal processing
applications.
This agreement is further evidence of TI's ongoing commitment to extend its current leadership in DSP solutions and provide the DSP market with unprecedented levels of development support.
"We are looking forward to increasing benefits to DSP applications designers as a result of merging Tartan's and TI's complementary expertise," said Jaime Ellertson, Tartan CEO. "DSP designers will be able to choose from a broader and more advanced range of software technology for their increasingly complex applications. Providing customers with a single source for Tartan compilers will dramatically reduce their time-to-market for DSP solutions."
"Combining the technical expertise of Tartan and TI will strengthen TI's leadership position in digital signal processing solutions and provide a technology base we can leverage throughout the rest of the decade and beyond," said Mike Hames, TI Semiconductor Group vice president and worldwide DSP manager. "Tartan is a clear technical leader in DSP tools, and this acquisition shows our commitment to providing the best DSP development support available in the industry. TI will be able to take advantage of Tartan's expertise and technology to dramatically accelerate DSP technology development and to provide the best customer application support in the industry."
Tartan and TI's business relationship began in 1985, when Tartan developed an Ada compiler for a group of TI chips used in military applications.
Tartan, Inc. is a 15-year-old company with more than 80 professionals who support an integrated product line for DSP application development. Tartan's product line includes a variety of software and hardware tools that designers use to develop DSP-based products. The company was the first to develop a DSP compiler for C++, a high-level software language, and Ada, the standard software language of the Department of Defense.
Tartan and TI's business relationship began in 1985, when Tartan developed an Ada compiler for a group of TI chips used in military applications. The relationship continued with both companies leveraging each other's complementary DSP expertise to develop the industry's highest performance DSP software tools.
June 1996, vol. 13, no. 4
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