Great moments in DSPS history

1976: TI develops a forerunner of the DSP to simulate voice in an educational product called "Speak and Spell."

1979: DSPs gain serious consideration as a new product from TI.

1982: Pioneering the DSP market, TI discloses the first commercially viable DSP, the TMS32010. It executes about 5 million instructions per second (MIPS).

1983: Customers receive the first production quantities of the TMS32010.

1985: TI offers the industry's first PC-based tools for DSP development. Also introduces the first 24-hour technical support hot line for DSPs.

1985: For the first time, a DSP is used in a modem.

1986: Lotus uses a DSP-based system for active suspension and noise abatement in its racing cars.

1987: Worlds of Wonder's "Julie Doll" is the first consumer toy using DSP technology. TI becomes an early supplier to the new digital cellular telephone market.

1988: World's first DSP hearing aid goes to market.

1991: TI sponsors the first Educator's Conference to help introduce university programs to DSPs.

1993: Cadillac introduces the Allante with a DSP-based ride control system.

1994: The TMS320C80 becomes the basis for the first full-duplex, interactive video-conferencing system.

1995: TI implements the first On-Line DSP Lab, an electronic lab for testing DSP applications via the World Wide Web.

1996: The introduction of TImeline technology, the first process capable of putting 125 million transistors on one chip, opens new possibilities in DSP integration.

1997: TI celebrates 15 years of DSPs with the introduction of the TMS320C6x family of DSPs, boosting performance to 1,600 MIPS, 10 times that available in other DSPs. New design tools make the devices practical immediately. TI also breaks the 1-V barrier in power consumption.