April 17, 2012 Texas Instruments has introduced the company's first 4-A/8-A and 4-A/4-A single-channel, low-side gate drivers with industry-leading speed and drive current capability for minimizing switching loss of MOSFETs,  IGBT power devices and wide band-gap power semiconductors, such as gallium nitride devices. Read more

April 12, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has expanded the company's growing portfolio of highly integrated DRV8x motor drivers with three new low-voltage devices for brushed DC and stepper motors. Read more

April 5, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has expanded the company’s award-winning ADS1298 analog front end (AFE) family with five new fully integrated AFEs for portable biopotential measurement applications. Read more

April 4, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has introduced a dual output power supply for automotive applications that ensures stable, uninterrupted output voltages, even in cases where the input voltage drops significantly below the output voltage levels. Read more

April 4, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has introduced a new class of voltage regulators designed to deliver the industry’s lowest-noise 1-A switching power supply without sacrificing efficiency and power performance. Read more

March 29, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a fully differential analog-to-digital converter (ADC) driver that claims to provide more than eight times the performance-to-power ratio of similar devices. Read more

March 28, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced the C5000 ultra-low-power digital signal processor (DSP)-based Audio Capacitive Touch BoosterPack which enables new functionalities in microcontroller applications, including crystal clear audio with playback and recording capabilities. Read more

March 20, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a new off-line primary side sensing controller to the company's portfolio of non-dimming LED drivers. The new TPS92310 AC/DC constant current driver with power factor correction (PFC) reduces cost and shrinks-to-fit in high-power LED retrofit bulbs, including A19, PAR30/38 and GU10. Read more

March 14, 2012 For automotive applications such as battery monitoring systems in HEV/EV vehicles, fuel or oil pressure sensing, Texas Instruments has combined the functions of a delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter with a programmable gain amplifier, a multiplexer and an oscillator. The result, the ADS1115-Q1 is the industry's most highly integrated automotive-qualified 16-bit ADC. Read more

March 8, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced two configurable analog front ends (AFE) that provide an easy-to-use, modular solution for bridging the gap between the microprocessor and sensor. Design engineers can reduce their development time by using a single AFE across multiple nondispersive infrared (NDIR) gas sensor and pH sensor platforms instead of designing several complex discrete solutions. Read more

February 29, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has added a duo of new RF DC/DC switching converters to the company's portfolio of RF power management ICs. The new National LM3242 and LM3243 regulators are adaptive power supply ICs that minimize power consumption of the RF power amplifier (PA) across all operating conditions. Read more

February 28, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled feature-packed MSP430 microcontroller platform with the aim of pushing ultra-low-power limits, bringing consumers one step closer to a battery-free world. Read more

February 24, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled the industry’s fastest 16-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The quad DAC34SH84 is 50-percent faster and uses 50-percent less power than the closest 16-bit DAC alternative, clocking in at 1.5 GSPS and consuming just 362 mW per channel. The DAC34SH84 provides an easy, pin-compatible upgrade from the 1.25-GSPS DAC34H84 for customers wanting to maximize speed in 3G, LTE, GSM and WiMAX wireless base stations and repeaters; microwave point-to-point radio; software defined radio; and waveform generation systems. Read more

February 24, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced what the company claims is the industry’s highest-performance and lowest-cost evaluation boards for evaluating high-speed data converters. The TSW1400EVM data capture and pattern generation board evaluates up to 16-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs). Read more

February 7, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has released two new solar kits based on its C2000 32-bit Piccolo and Concerto microcontrollers (MCUs). The new solar kits bring advanced peripherals, application-targeted development hardware, schematics, comprehensive software libraries of algorithms and an industry-leading development environment to the renewable energy market, allowing designers to easily create solar inverter designs while evaluating various solar algorithms and topologies. Read more

February 7, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has introduced what the company claims is industry's most integrated and configurable digital power management controller optimized for AC/DC and isolated DC/DC power supply applications. The UCD3138 gives designers an innovative path to increase power density and reliability in a broad range of power supply topologies used in servers, telecom rectifiers and high-power DC/DC modules. Read more

February 2, 2012 Raising the standard in half duplex (HDX) transponder technology, Texas Instruments has announced what the company claims to be the world’s smallest half-duplex radio frequency identification (RFID) mini-transponders that enable customers to embed tags into smaller objects across a broader range of applications. Read more

January 30, 2012 Avago Technologies and Texas Instruments are among the companies at DesignCon this week with new components to drive boards and cables to higher data rates over longer distances for less power and cost. They and their competitors are gearing up to enable a next-generation of systems using 100 Gbit/s Ethernet and 10+ Gbit/s interfaces. Read more

January 26, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has expanded the company’s high-voltage point-of-load product line by introducing what the company claims is the industry’s first 100-V synchronous buck regulator with integrated MOSFETs. The 600-mA LM5017 is the first in a new family of step-down switching regulators that reduce PCB area and system cost while improving high-voltage reliability in telecommunication, industrial, smart grid and automotive systems. Read more

January 20, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced what the company claims is the industry's fastest, highest-performance analog front end (AFE) for femtocell base stations and portable software-defined radio (SDR) applications. The low-power, 12-bit AFE7225 integrates a dual 125-MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and dual 250-MSPS digital-to-analog converter (DAC). Read more

January 11, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced the company’s lowest cost microcontroller (MCU) with an integrated LCD controller. Based on TI’s MSP430 ultra-low power MCU core, the AFE4110 delivers an industry-leading combination of 16-bit processing power, built-in LCD driver, low power and low cost, while operating on a single 1.5-V battery. Read more

January 2, 2012 In this news analysis article EE Times Europe Analog's editor, Paul Buckley questions Heinz-Peter Beckemeyer, TI's EMEA Director Analog Marketing and Paul McCormack, TI's Business Development Manager for High Performance Analog – High Speed Products about how TI intends to move forward following its recent acquisition of National Semiconductor. Read more

December 27, 2011 Teetering on the brink of 2012 we can now unveil EE Times Europe Analog's Top 10 most popular news stories of 2011. The results are based on the news stories that were accessed by EE Times Europe Analog's readership since January 1, 2011. Read more

December 21, 2011 We are only a few months after Texas Instruments absorbed National Semiconductor but the new business is already making it clear that it sees data converter technologies as being its gateway for growth in 2012 and beyond.  Paul Buckley EE Times Europe Analog's editor spotlights some of TI's and National Semiconductors' top data converter product developments this year.  Read more

December 14, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled the new MSP430Ware software and resource package. MSP430Ware offers a sleek and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) where developers can immediately access and easily filter through all MSP430 microcontroller design resources by device, tool or software library. Read more

December 14, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a family of tiny, single-chip, power management integrated circuits (PMICs) for powering all the supply rails in solid state drives (SSDs), hybrid drives and other Flash memory management applications. The new LM10504, LM10503 and LM10506 PMICs improve reliability and reduce system cost and development time. Read more

December 13, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled a new motor control kit for spinning three-phase brushless motors with a Stellaris Cortex-M3 microcontroller (MCU). The new DK-LM3S-DRV8312 motor control kit features a 32-bit Stellaris LM3S818 microcontroller and DRV8312 motor driver to spin sub-50 V, 6.5 A three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motors in minutes. Read more

December 12, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated is claiming the industry's most accurate difference amplifier for high common-mode-voltage applications up to +275 V. The company's INA149 increases overall measurement accuracy more than two fold compared to the closest competitor.  The device claims to be the first difference amplifier with guaranteed 90 dB CMRR performance in harsh, high temperature environments up to 125 degrees C. Read more

December 8, 2011 Pandaboard.org, which is an online resource for the growing, active community supporting PandaBoard, the low-cost, open OMAP 4 processor-based mobile software development platform, has announced the general availability of PandaBoard ES, the next-generation open mobile software development platform based on OMAP 4 technology from Texas Instruments Incorporated. Read more

December 7, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced the MSP430F563x and MSP430F663x families adding more performance and features to its ultra-low-power 16-bit microcontroller portfolio. Developers can immediately take advantage of the microcontrollers’ larger memory, display capacity and analog peripherals, which enable high precision measurement and connectivity. Read more

December 6, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled an expansion of its KeyStone multicore architecture for emerging cloud radio access network (C-RAN) applications and network server developers. Specifically, TI is scaling its KeyStone SoC architecture for the emerging paradigm of C-RAN base stations, enabling the creation of device pools with immense capacity for manufacturers to develop high performance and power efficient C-RAN base station clusters. Read more

December 1, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has introduced a sub-1 GHz radio frequency (RF) value line plug-in-board for TI’s MSP430 microcontroller LaunchPad development kit. The new 430BOOST-CC110L RF BoosterPack includes ETSI-compliant and FCC-certified modules to help speed development time, reduce certification costs and eliminate barriers associated with the RF hardware design process. Read more

November 30, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has announced the qualification of MSP430 16-bit microcontrollers for automotive applications. The AEC-Q100 certification allows developers to integrate higher performance, power efficiency and scalability into their designs without sacrificing on price. Read more

November 23, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated is now offering what the company claims is the first ARM Cortex -A8 system solution with multiple integrated industrial communication protocols to help developers accelerate their industrial automation designs. Read more

November 23, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a complete power management solution for TI’s C2000 real-time control, 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) and other DSP and FPGA processors. The TPS75005 highly integrated power circuit comes in a thermally enhanced 5-mm x 5-mm QFN package, combining two low-noise, 500-mA low-dropout linear regulators (LDOs) and three supply voltage supervisors to provide +/-5 percent power-rail accuracy for TI’s F2833x, F2823x, F281x, F2801x and F280x microcontroller series. Read more

November 18, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated is claiming the industry's best noise performance and lowest power octal-channel, 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) at 80 MSPS. The ADS5294 meets designers' needs for power-efficient, cost-effective designs by delivering a best-in-class signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 75.5 dBFS at 5 MHz and a sampling frequency of up to 80 MSPS. Read more

November 8, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated is expanding the company’s portfolio of general-purpose, low-power, rail-to-rail output operational amplifiers (op amps) with the introduction of new single and dual analog-to-digital converter (ADC) drivers that provide the industry's highest performance-to-power ratio. The OPAx836 op amps use 33 percent less power than similar solutions while providing more than twice the bandwidth, 15 times faster slew rate, 40 times better total harmonic distortion (THD) and 75-percent higher precision. Read more

November 3, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated is reducing the bill of materials for wideband transmit systems with new dual, 500-MSPS digital-to-analog converters (DACs) starting at less than $10 in 1,000 unit quantities. Read more

October 18, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced the industry’s first automotive power management integrated circuit (PMIC) to support 14 power voltage rails. As the industry’s first automotive PMIC with more than 10 rails, the TPS658629-Q1 provides all the power supply functions and reduces board space for infotainment, navigation and LCD/TFT cluster applications by integrating multiple regulated power supplies, system power management and display functions in one small package. Read more

October 10, 2011 Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced four new Simple Switcher power management integrated circuits for space-constrained point-of-load designs in industrial, communications and automotive applications. Read more

October 5, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a highly integrated clock generator that features what the company claims is  the industry's best jitter performance. The National LMK03806 offers designers the ability to synthesize their required clock frequencies from a single low-cost crystal, enabling a reduction in component count of up to 80 percent, board size, and bill of materials (BOM) cost by up to 50 percent, while improving performance over legacy solutions. Read more

October 5, 2011 At the Strategies in Light Europe conference in Milan, Italy, Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced two highly integrated, phase-dimmable AC/DC LED lighting drivers, LM3448 and TPS92070, for use in solid state lighting residential, architectural, commercial and industrial applications, such as retrofit bulbs, LED ballasts, downlights, spot lights and other luminaires. Read more

October 4, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced two 20-V step-down voltage regulators with PMBus digital interface and adaptive voltage scaling capability for non-isolated point-of-load designs. Together with the National system power protection and management products, TI provides the design engineer with complete single-, dual- and multi-rail, multi-phase PMBus solutions - allowing telecom and server designers to intelligently monitor, protect and manage the state of health of their power systems. Read more

September 28, 2011 Silica has expanded its analog offering in Europe with National products from Texas Instruments (TI). This follows TI's acquisition of National Semiconductor. Effective immediately, the European distribution specialist will support the combined full product portfolio of TI and National products from Texas Instruments, providing a leading analog component and solutions portfolio to customers. Read more

September 27, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced new sub-1 GHz 6LoWPAN solutions, aimed at providing a gateway for remote, low-cost wireless sensors to connect to the Internet and a wireless extension of wired IPv6 infrastructures. By operating in the sub-1GHz band, TI’s 6LoWPAN solutions offer longer wireless range at lower power levels than traditional 2.4 GHz-based 6LoWPAN offerings. Read more

September 27, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled the new low power, floating-point Stellaris Cortex-M4F microcontroller generation. All of the new LM4Fx Stellaris microcontrollers provide floating point for performance headroom and best-in-class power consumption to address portability and power budgets. Read more

September 23, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated is introducing what the company claims is the industry’s first auto focus voice coil driver with both pulse width modulation (PWM) and linear current regulation support. The DRV201 provides designers the flexibility to select the PWM or linear regulation for compact cameras, smartphones and mobile devices. PWM current regulation is up to 75-percent more power-efficient than traditional designs using linear mode. Read more

September 22, 2011 As MEMS enters the mainstream, the high-volume markets will favor mergers and acquisitions over the next five years, as the larger player fill in the gaps of their integrated solution for OEMs, who must fuse the outputs of multiple MEMS sensors for a wider variety of applications than just tablets and phones. Read more

September 16, 2011 Armed with a new deal to integrate its MEMS sensor algorithms into Texas Instruments's ZigBee-based radio frequency for consumer electronics (RF4CE) hardware platform—RemoTI—Hillcrest Laboratories Inc., hopes to penetrate further into the fast growing markets for MEMS-based motion-control interfaces for Smart TV, streaming video, motion-based gaming and 3-D gesture control. Read more

September 16, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated hass introduced a synchronous 30-A step-down regulator with integrated MOSFETs that achieves 90-percent power efficiency and fast transient response in a small 5-mm x 6-mm PowerStack QFN package. Read more

September 9, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has expanded the company’s 1.8-V, rail-to-rail input and output, general purpose operational amplifier (op amp) portfolio with the first in a new line of op amps for low-voltage, battery-powered, cost-sensitive industrial, consumer and medical applications. Read more

August 30, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has launched ten Bluetooth low energy technology (Bluetooth v4.0) profiles with associated sample applications to boost market development of Bluetooth low energy-compliant sensor devices. The Bluetooth low energy application software is a part of TI's BLE-Stack, and is available royalty-free to all using TI's CC2540 Bluetooth low energy system-on-chip (SoC). Read more

August 30, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced its OMAP-L132 DSP + ARM processor, the lowest cost and lowest power processor in the OMAP-L1x DSP + ARM processor generation. The newest DSP + ARM processor enables real-time, fixed- and floating-point signal processing, connectivity and communication starting at $8.55. Read more

August 11, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled its PowerLab library, which the company claims is the industry's most extensive collection of tested power management reference designs. Read more

August 10, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a synchronous 50-mA, 60-V SWIFT step-down regulator with high efficiency and low noise performance in a solution size of only 125 mm2. The TPS54062 integrates both the high-side and low-side power MOSFETs, providing efficient power conversion and transient protection to noise-sensitive industrial automation and sensor control, smart meter, telecom, computing and consumer designs. Read more

August 4, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has achieved ZigBee Certified status for its ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1 standard implementation, recently introduced by the ZigBee Alliance. TI is making available the company’s new Z-Stack 2.5.0 with support for ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1, geared towards home area networks (HAN). Read more

July 26, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a 3-MHz, 100-mA synchronous step-down DC/DC converter, which integrates a bypass switch and a unique DCS-Control technology. The new device extends battery run-time by 20 percent in low-power wireless and MSP430 MCU-based applications, when compared to competing solutions. Read more

July 26, 2011 Chip maker Texas Instruments Inc., said Monday (July 25) that two semiconductor fabs damaged in the March 11 earthquake in Japan resumed production ahead of schedule as the company reported second quarter results that beat analysts' expectations. Read more

July 21, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated is claiming most highly integrated piezo haptic driver for mobile consumer and industrial designs. The DRV8662 features an integrated 105-V boost converter, power diode, and 50-V to 200-V peak-to-peak (Vpp) fully-differential amplifier, resulting in a solution size that is 50 percent smaller than leading competitors. Read more

June 10, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced the industry's first fully integrated Li-Ion battery management integrated circuit (IC) for super capacitor charge control. The single device provides comprehensive features for managing charge control; measuring capacitance and effective series resistance (ESR); and protecting either 2-, 3-, 4- or 5-series super capacitors with individual capacitor control, or up to 9-series capacitors with stack control. Read more

June 2, 2011 EBV Elektronik has announced the Caribou board as a development and evaluation platform for industrial communications. It is based on an OMAP L138 / AM1808 ARM microprocessor from Texas Instruments, together with an Altera Cyclone III FPGA and analog interfaces from Texas Instruments. Read more

May 31, 2011 More than a dozen vendors have joined a new industry group promoting computer vision in embedded systems. The Embedded Vision Alliance aims to provide education about the technology and help develop a broad range of emerging markets for it. Read more

May 24, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced the first quad-channel, 16-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for medical imaging applications, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The ADS5263 meets designers' needs for clear, crisp signals and faster acquisition times by delivering a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 84.6 dBFS with 10-MHz input and a sampling frequency of up to 100 MSPS. Read more

May 5, 2011 Neonode, Inc., a leading optical touch screen technology company, is to collaborate with Texas Instruments Incorporated to develop and improve the functionality, performance and cost advantage of zForce, Neonode’s patented optical touch screen technology. Read more

May 4, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled what the company claims isthe industry’s first ultra-low-power ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) 16-bit microcontrollers. Further demonstrating TI's embedded processing leadership, the new MSP430FR57xx FRAM series ensures data can be written more than 100 times faster and uses as little as 250 times less power than flash- and EEPROM-based microcontrollers. Read more

April 27, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced the Grace software platform, a free visual plug-in that enables developers to easily enable and configure ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontroller peripherals through a graphical user interface (GUI). Read more

April 20, 2011 Offering the world’s lowest power touch sense capabilities on all MSP430 devices, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has unveiled the ultra-low-power MSP430 16-bit microcontroller capacitive touch portfolio. The new capacitive touch portfolio enables ultra-low-power touch sense capabilities such as buttons, sliders, wheels and proximity sensors on 16-bit microcontroller platform. Read more

April 8, 2011 Texas Instruments has expanded its industry-leading power management portfolio with two new step-down regulators with wide input voltages and high-voltage protection. Read more

April 7, 2011 Building on its ADS1298 analog-front-end (AFE) family, Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced the industry's first fully-integrated AFEs with on-chip respiration impedance measurement in full production. The 24-bit ADS1298R devices simplify the implementation of respiration detection in portable electrocardiogram (ECG) equipment by integrating more than 40 discrete components, reducing component count as much as 97 percent. Read more

April 5, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has signed a definitive agreement with National Semiconductor under which TI will acquire National for $25 per share in an all-cash transaction of about $6.5 billion.  The acquisition combines two industry leaders in analog semiconductors and the boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved the transaction. Read more

April 5, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated is introducing the MSP430AFE2xx series of metrology analog front end (AFE) ultra-low-power 16-bit microcontrollers. Part of TI's leading embedded processing portfolio, the low-cost MSP430AFE series offers the industry's first programmable single-phase metrology devices supported with multiple communication interfaces. Read more

March 22, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled what the company claims will be the industry's most power-efficient 4-channel, 16-bit DAC (digital-to-analog converter). At 1.25 GSPS, the DAC3484 is 25 percent faster than the next fastest quad DAC while consuming as little as 250 mW per channel – 65 percent less than the closest competitor. Read more

March 4, 2011 Preparing the way for carbon-based semiconductors, Texas Instruments is perfecting the growth of graphene sheets. By carefully characterizing a method of growing graphene monolayers, TI hopes to pave the way for faster, smaller and lower power electronics based on carbon instead of silicon. Read more

March 3, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced what the company claims is the industry's first two-channel, simultaneous-sampling successive approximation (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) with two independently controlled internal references for simplified system-level design. The 16-bit ADS8363, 14-bit ADS7263 and 12-bit ADS7223 are pin-for-pin compatible and provide twice the per-channel throughput of similar ADCs, supporting speeds up to 1 MSPS. Read more

February 23, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced two power management development kits, which help designers generate the cleanest possible positive and negative voltage rails to power today's analog circuits. The new TPS54060 and TPS7A30/49 development kits remove switching noise and increase the performance of data converters, operational amplifiers, clocks and other signal chain devices. Read more

February 23, 2011 An emerging body area network (BAN) technology is gearing up to compete with Bluetooth Low Energy across a broad range of medical and consumer applications. The competition comes as medical devices are increasingly adopting a growing set of wireless network technologies including Wi-Fi and Zigbee. Read more

February 14, 2011 In response to various network operators' diverging demands for small to large cells, Freescale Semiconductor and Texas Instruments are unveiling this week at the Mobile World Congress their respective visions for a “base station on a chip.” Read more

February 8, 2011 Texas Instruments' believes its OMAP 5 platform is expected to change the concept of 'mobile' by driving disruptive mobile computing experiences providing stereoscopic 3D, gesture recognition and computational photography based on multi-core processing, including ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processors. Read more

January 26, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has released 64 new ultra-low-power MSP430 Value Line microcontrollers (MCUs) that offer 16-bit performance at an 8-bit price. Read more

January 12, 2011 Texas Instruments has added over 15 MCUs using its C2000 Piccolo real-time control floating-point core, with Viterbi Complex Math Unit (VCU) and control-oriented peripheral options, bridging the gap between low-cost Piccolo and high-performance Delfino floating-point microcontrollers. Read more

January 11, 2011 Movea, a leading provider of motion processing technology, has partnered with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) to create a new high-performance, RF4CE remote control reference design that will allow consumers to experience a highly interactive and immersive style of home entertainment by enabling in-air operating controls through motion recognition. Read more

December 31, 2010 As 2011 looms on the horizon why don't you while away the rest of 2010 by checking out the most popular analog and mixed-signal technical articles of 2010 that appeared in EE Times Europe Analog. Read more

November 22, 2010 Texas Instruments has introduced the first in a new line of scalable evaluation platforms for spinning motors. The DRV8412 evaluation kit (DRV8412-C2-KIT) includes all of the hardware and software needed to spin two brushed DC motors or a single stepper motor running up to 6 A continuous/12 A peak at 50 V. Read more

October 26, 2010 Texas Instruments Inc. beat Wall Street's estimates for the third quarter, but the chip maker issued a warning about a slowdown in the fourth quarter. TI reported third-quarter revenue of $3.74 billion, up 7 percent over the previous quarter and up 30 percent from a year ago. Read more

October 19, 2010 New market analysis from IMS Research forecasts that the world market for power management and driver ICs will fully recover in 2010, growing by 20% to more than $12 billion. In 2009 the market declined by more than 14%. Read more

September 15, 2010 Driving smaller, lower cost products that run from a single-cell battery, Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced what the company claims is the industry's first true 0.9-V microcontroller (MCU) as the newest addition to the ultra-low-power MSP430 MCU portfolio. Read more

September 14, 2010 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a high-linearity, low-distortion, fully-differential operational amplifier (op amp) that delivers 16-bit full-scale precision up to 200 MHz IF to maximize signal chain performance for wireless base stations, high-speed data acquisition, test and measurement, medical imaging and defense applications. Read more

September 13, 2010 Extreme Reality has partnered with Texas Instruments to deliver a touchless gesturing engine and gesturing application framework for mobile devices. This announcement builds on the vision that TI and XTR first demonstrated earlier this year at Mobile World Congress, as part of TI's natural user interfaces (NUI) initiatives. Read more

August 24, 2010 Texas Instruments has introduced a dual-channel, single-lane serial-ATA (SATA) redriver and signal conditioner, claiming the lowest active power and lowest automatic low-power (ALP) mode of any 6-Gbps redriver/equalizers available today. Read more

August 2, 2010 Market research analyst, IMS Research of Wellingborough, UK, has published its latest rankings for the power management and driver IC market which reveals that Texas Instruments has extended its lead in the market during the downturn in 2009 and held a share of 10.5 percent. Read more

July 15, 2010 Texas Instruments has announced it will purchase two wafer fabs and manufacturing equipment located in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan. The assets currently are operated by Spansion Japan Limited (SJL) and are being acquired under a court-approved plan of reorganization. Read more

July 8, 2010 The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced adoption of Bluetooth low energy technology, the hallmark feature of the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0. In conjunction, Texas Instruments (TI) announced full qualification of the Bluetooth low energy stack supporting the BlueLink and WiLink  connectivity combo solutions. Read more

July 7, 2010 Texas Instruments has introduced its lowest power 11-bit, 200 MSPS ADC family, with quad (ADS58C48), dual (ADS58C28) and buffered single-input (ADS58B18) options. Read more

June 23, 2010 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has released its new MSP430 MCU Value Line LaunchPad development kit which claims to be the industry's lowest cost microcontroller (MCU) kit to enable prototyping, debugging and programming for new and experienced developers of sensing, consumer electronics and other cost sensitive applications Read more

May 5, 2010 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced audio codecs and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) for eBooks, mobile Internet devices and portable navigation devices. Read more

April 28, 2010 Extending TI's Burr-Brown Audio line, Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a family of JFET-input op amps featuring ultra-low noise and distortion to maximize audio system quality and performance. Read more

April 21, 2010 Texas Instruments is aiming to accelerate time to market for a broad variety of applications, including building automation, metering and asset tracking with the introduction of its CC430F513x microcontrollers (MCUs) supported by a developer ecosystem offering complete, scalable hardware and software. Read more

April 6, 2010 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a 16-bit, 800-MSPS interpolating digital-to-analog converter (DAC), which provides 75 dBc third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) at 200 MHz. Read more