"We are looking forward to increasing benefits to DSP applications designers as a result of merging Tartan's and TI's complementary expertise," said Jaime Ellertson, Tartan CEO. "DSP designers will be able to choose from a broader and more advanced range of software technology for their increasingly complex applications. Providing customers with a single source for all of their tool support will dramatically reduce their time-to-market for DSP solutions."
"Combining the technical expertise of Tartan and TI will strengthen TI's leadership position in digital signal processing solutions and provide a technology base we can leverage throughout the rest of the decade and beyond," said Mike Hames, TI Semiconductor Group vice-president and worldwide DSP manager. "Tartan is the clear technical leader in Ada and C++ compilers within the DSP industry, and this acquisition doubles our DSP development support resources. TI will be able to take advantage of Tartan's expertise and technology to dramatically accelerate TMS320 DSP technology development and to provide the best DSP customer application support in the industry."
Tartan, Inc. is a 15-year-old company with over 80 professionals who support an integrated product line for DSP application development. Tartan's product line includes highly optimizing compilers, modular runtime libraries, debugging tools and DSP math libraries. The company was the first to develop production-quality C++ and Ada compilers for DSPs and is considered the DSP industry leader in C++ and Ada compilers. Tartan's DSP tools are in use by customers in the telecommunications, consumer electronics, automotive, medical instrumentation, process control and aerospace industries developing DSP-based applications .
Tartan and TI's business relationship began in 1985, when Tartan developed an Ada compiler for a TI chip set used in military applications. The relationship continued with both companies leveraging each others complementary DSP expertise to develop the industry's highest performance DSP software tools. In 1988, the two companies again collaborated to develop the first Ada compiler for a TI TMS320 DSP. The close relationship was extended in 1993 when Tartan developed the industry's first C++ compiler for DSPs. This compiler supports TI DSPs and is distributed by both Tartan and TI.
This announcement is just one of many already this year signifying
TI's commitment to strengthening its leadership in DSP solutions.
In February, TI announced that it was investing $2 billion in
a new 0.25 micron manufacturing facility in Dallas which will
be primarily dedicated to DSPs. In March, TI gave Rice University
in Houston, TX a $7 million cash donation to fund long-term cooperative
research relationships in the key technology areas of digital
signal processing. In April, TI won the 1996 IEEE Corporate Innovation
Recognition Award for technical excellence in the design and application
of digital signal processors.
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