TI acquires Spectron Microsystems

Texas Instruments has acquired Spectron Microsystems, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based software development company specializing in real-time operating systems (RTOS) and software products that ease digital signal processing (DSP) development and eliminate some low-level programming tasks.

The acquisition further enhances TI's extensive offering of DSP Solutions, enabling its customers to shorten their time-to-market and to focus on features that differentiate their products. TI will extend its leadership in DSP Solutions by providing the most complete development environment, simplifying DSP development and making its DSP Solutions even more attractive for a broad range of fast-growing markets.

Two key software development products include SPOX™ and BIOSuite™. SPOX is an RTOS for DSP applications. BIOSuite products provide implementations of the TI DSP/BIOS open software application programming interface (API) standard. The DSP/BIOS API defines a common set of function calls that improves overall code quality and shortens development time.

Spectron, formed in 1987, had been a wholly owned subsidiary of Dialogic Corp. since 1995. Now it has become TI-Santa Barbara.

SPOX and BIOSuite are trademarks of Texas Instruments.