March 1996, vol. 13, no. 2
DSP news
Designers can evaluate TI's 32-bit floating point family of processors at a very low cost with the introduction of the TMS320C3x DSK, TI's newest low-cost, easy-to-use development tool.
Greater storage capacity. Lower part count. Reduced power consumption. Faster, less expensive development. These are the main concerns facing the hard disk drive industry today as we design smaller, faster products to serve graphics oriented Windows applications and increasingly popular portable computers. These are the advances our customers expect from Sea-gate Technology, the world's largest maker of hard disk drives.
Texas Instruments has announced plans to achieve 100 million instructions per second (MIPS) in late 1996 on a 16-bit, fixed-point DSP. In addition, TI has disclosed development of a new low-voltage, 16-bit, fixed-point DSP with large on-chip static RAM to be introduced initially at 66 MIPS and subsequently offered at 100 MIPS.
The industry's first widely available fixed-point digital signal processor (DSP) with on-chip flash memory will be available later in 1996 from Texas Instruments.
Hamilton Hallmark will introduce at DSPx the Spectralizer, a reference design kit demonstrating the TI TMS320C203 DSP.
A product listing of TI's complete catalog of digital signal processors.
The Texas Instruments Digital Signal Processing Group is the recipient of the 1996 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Corporate Innovation Recognition award.
Texas Instruments recently demonstrated the benefits of broadcasting video digitally before the Federal Communications Commission.
Texas Instruments Japan Ltd. and Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) have jointly developed a system that produces realistic, theater-like surround sound through only two speakers placed in front of the listener.
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