TI DSP firsts
1981
- Establishes first DSP University Program designed to support universities interested in DSP technology. Now, more than 900 universities worldwide teach digital signal processing at all levels.
1982
- Introduces first commercially viable DSP to market -- the TMS32010 -- operating at 5 million instructions per second (MIPS).
1984
- First manufacturer to introduce a second generation of DSPs by disclosing the TMS320C2x.
1985
- Manufactures first DSP using CMOS process technology. Sets up the industry's first DSP technical hotline. Takes the lead in offering more DSP support with the industry's first PC-based development tools. Encourages outside companies to supplement TI DSP development tools family.
1987
- First consumer toy to use DSP is the Worlds of Wonder's "Julie Doll," using TI's TMS320C17 for voice recognition.
1988
- Introduces industry's first floating-point DSP -- the TMS320C3x. Targeted applications: voice/fax mail, 3-D graphics, bar-code scanners and video-conferencing audio and visual systems.
- World's first DSP-based hearing aid uses TI's TMS320C1x DSP.
1989
- Introduces highest performance fixed-point DSP generation in the industry --TMS320C5x -- operating at 28 MIPS and delivering two to four times the performance of any other fixed-point DSP; used mainly in cellular and cordless telephones, high-speed modems, printers and copiers.
1990
- Offers first DSP C-source debugger and optimizing ANSI C tools.
- Discloses second floating-point generation -- the TMS320C4x -- first DSP architecture designed for the construction of higher performance systems using parallel DSP for 3-D graphics, digital base stations and other high-speed communication applications.
- Creates industry's first DSP Starter Kit -- the 'C2x DSK, a DSP tool that allows designers to use DSPs for real-time digital signal processing without a large investment.
1991
- Announces the first DSP to cost less than U.S. $5 in single quantities. Price for the 'C1x is comparable to 16-bit microcontrollers and DSP provides five to 10 times the performance.
- First to offer core-based DSP design with customizable DSP (cDSP™), which provides a higher level of system integration with faster time-to-market.
- Sponsors first Educators' Conference for DSP educators and researchers.
1992
- Cadillac introduces the 1993 model Allante, featuring a TI DSP-based road-sensing system for a smoother ride, less roll and tighter cornering.
1993
- Creates the TMS320 Software Cooperative, the industry's first comprehensive DSP software package, containing more than 100 off-the-shelf third-party DSP algorithms for applications including speech, image, motor control and telecommunications software.
1994
- Unveils industry's highest performance DSP ever with 2 billion operations per second (BOPS) performance, 10 times that of any other DSP. The TMS320C80 is the first commercially available single-chip processor to combine multiple parallel DSPs and a RISC processor onto one chip.
- Creates the highest performance DSP Starter Kit -- the 'C5x DSK, at U.S. $99 each for designers new to DSP technology.
1995
- First to bridge the gap between fixed- and floating-point DSPs price/performance with the TMS320C32, priced at less than U.S. $10 in high volume and running at 40 million floating-point operations per second (MFLOPS).
- Introduces the TMS320C2xx generation for high-performance, low-cost (40 MIPS for less than U.S. $5 in high volume) fixed-point design for applications like feature-phones, power-line monitors, modems and security systems.
| Fast Stats A TI DSP is used in one of two digital cellular phones, nine of 10 high-performance disk drives and one of three high-speed modems. |
- Launches two different DSPs, the TMS320C545 and the TMS320C546, to provide the first single DSP solution for next-generation cellular standards.
- Sponsors the "TI DSP Solutions Challenge," an expanded version of the regional DSP design contests and the first worldwide university contest of its kind. The grand prize was $100,000. Implements first On-Line DSP Lab™, an electronic laboratory for testing TI DSP applications design and development tools on the World Wide Web and the first external WWW DSP hotline, the "320 Hotline On-Line™."
1996
- Discloses plans to release the TMS320C54x DSP generation to the mass market at 66, 80 and 100 MIPS performance.
- Discloses industry's first widely available (volume production) DSP with on-chip flash memory -- the TMS320F206.
- Introduces TMS320C24x, industry's first DSP designed to improve system performance, lower system cost and reduce component count in digital motor and motion control (DMC) systems.
1997
- Introduces the TMS320C6x DSP, the world's most powerful DSP generation, performing at 1600 MIPS/200MHz and delivering 10 times the performance of typical DSPs.
- TI's DSP Solution enables the industry's first available 56 Kbit modem with one of the world's largest modem manufacturers, 3Com Corp., through 3Com's x2™ technology.
- Announces the successful demonstration of the industry's first programmable DSP that operates at 1-V and below and performs all the functions of a standard commercial DSP.
- Opens Kilby Center, an advanced research facility, named after Jack S. Kilby, the integrated circuit inventor.
- Establishes $100 million capital venture fund to accelerate DSP market and $25 million university research fund to stimulate development of DSP applications at universities worldwide.
- Discloses technology for the TMS320C67x core of floating-point DSPs -- the industry's first processor to cross into the 1-GFLOPS performance range.
cDSP, On-Line DSP Lab, 320 Hotline On-line, and VelociTI are trademarks of Texas Instruments. x2 is a trademark of 3Com Corp.
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