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April 1996, vol. 13, no. 4
Texas Instruments has acquired Tartan, Inc., a leading independent provider of software tools for developers of digital signal processing applications.
Two students from the Nanyang Technological University (NYU) in Singapore split a prize of US$100,000 when they won the TI DSP Solutions Challenge. The worldwide contest is the first of its kind to encourage college students to use digital signal processors for new applications.
Application report: PCMCIA TMS320 DSP MediaCard:
The PCMCIA standard gives a desirable interface for sharing resources between a host and co-processor. In this general purpose implementation, a Texas Instruments TMS320C51 fixed-point DSP has been interfaced to the PCMCIA bus using a TPC1280 FPGA. The DSP is able to run at 40 MIPs with zero wait-state SRAM that the host PC is also able to share and may be mapped directly into the x86 memory map using PCMCIA Card Services. The host PC may download DSP code directly into the DSP's SRAM and initiate DSP operation.
A major extension of TI's comprehensive TMS370 8-bit microcontroller family now gives designers a variety of optimized choices for a growing number of embedded industrial and consumer applications.
The 135 released family members now feature higher functionality through a wider selection of memory sizes and types, multiple and more sophisticated timers, analog circuitry and other peripherals integrated on-chip.
Texas Instruments and 3Dlabs® Inc. of San Jose, Calif., have signed a long-term licensing agreement to collaborate in developing high-performance multimedia chips incorporating 3Dlabs' award-winning PERMEDIA 3D Graphics Technology.
Two new RAMDACs are SVGA, true-color CMOS
The TVP3703 and TVP3409 are two new SVGA-compatible, true-color CMOS RAMDACs. Both devices are highly integrated, featuring high-speed triple 8-bit DACs, three 256-by-8-color lookup tables and a programmable pixel multiplexing interface.
Infrared controller offers seamless, low-cost data transfer
A new infrared encoder/decoder from Texas Instruments gives designers of personal computers and other systems a low-cost and easy-to-implement data transfer capability.
6-channel MOSFET driver provides on-chip diagnostics
TI's newest six-bit shift-register MOSFET driver provides serial interface and diagnostics to control six low-side power DMOS transistors. The TPIC2603 is designed to control inductive and resistive loads such as relays, valves, solenoids and lamps.