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 27, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled three devices based on its KeyStone multicore architecture utilizing the TMS320C66x DSP generation. TI’s new TMS320C665x DSPs feature combined fixed- and floating-point capabilities, delivering real-time high performance at low power coupled with smaller form factors. 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

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 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

January 31, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced 10 signal conditioners designed to drive high-speed interface standards such as 10G/40G/100G Ethernet, 10G-KR (802.3ap), InfiniBand, Fibre Channel and CPRI. The new integrated circuits (ICs) join a comprehensive family of repeaters and retimers that combat signal impairments caused by insertion loss, jitter, reflections and crosstalk in high-speed enterprise servers, routers and switches. 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 18, 2012 Enabling designers to cost-effectively incorporate intelligence and remote connectivity into LED lighting designs and get to market faster, Texas Instruments has launched the 32-bit TMS320C2000 Piccolo microcontroller (MCU) AC LED lighting and communications developer’s kit. Leveraging the performance of low-cost Piccolo MCUs, the kit is a complete mains-powered LED lighting solution. 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 10, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a battery charger integrated circuit to support higher cell capacity batteries and increasing battery charge currents of tablets, e-readers and smartphones. The highly integrated single-cell Li-Ion battery charger has dual inputs, which allow operation from either a USB port or higher power input supply (AC adapter or wireless power input). Read more

January 5, 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated is expanding the company's MOSFET driver portfolio with three next-generation two-output gate drivers that improve efficiency and reliability in high-density isolated power supplies. The UCC27210 and UCC27211 are the industry’s first 120-V boot, high- and low-side, two-output MOSFET drivers to provide up to 4-A output current, while handling -10 volts of direct current (V DC ) immunity on the driver inputs. 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 19, 2011 The global power semiconductor market will grow by 5.0% in 2012 to $32 billion, according to market analyst, IMS Research, which is cutting the company's previous forecast of more than 8% due to global economic uncertainties and inventory being flushed from the supply chain. The market, which grew by 37% in 2010, is forecast to return to double-digit growth in 2013. 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 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 a new 6-V, 6-A synchronous integrated power module with integrated inductor, which achieves an industry-best 750 watts per cubic inch and peak power efficiency up to 97 percent. The TPS84610 provides excellent thermal performance of 12°C/W, which is 40-percent better than competing modules. 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 5, 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 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 25, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled the company's next generation of power management integrated circuits (ICs) for energy harvesting. The highly efficient boost charger for nano (ultra low) power energy harvesting manages the microwatts to milliwatts of power generated from a number of sources, such as solar, thermoelectric, electromagnetic and vibration, and stores the extracted energy in various storage elements, including Li-ion batteries and super capacitors. 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 6, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has unveiled four new system solutions for Smart Grid and metering applications, enabling designers to further accelerate time to market for PLC-based and low-power wireless products. The evaluation kits, tools and new software can be ordered immediately to enable communication protocols and promote Smart Grid applications. 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 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 21, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced an automotive-qualified 36-V, single-supply, low-noise op amp (operational amplifier) that can operate on supplies ranging from +2.7 V to +36 V. Read more

September 16, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated is claiming the industry’s first device to integrate four types of USB 2.0 chip protection in a single package. The TPD4S014 provides a high level of protection against electrostatic discharge (ESD) and is the industry’s smallest USB protection device for all four USB channels, measuring only 2 mm x 2 mm. 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 19, 2011 E-bikes and power tools are target applications for Texas Instruments' integrated battery protection and cell-balancing solution for Li-Ion and lithium iron phosphate battery packs. The device simplifies battery pack designs for e-bikes, e-scooters, portable gardening tools, power tools and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and can also be used when replacing lead acid batteries. 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

May 30, 2011 G24 Innovations Ltd., a pioneer of dye-sensitized thin-film solar cells, is working with Texas Instruments to combine G24i's solar cell technology with TI power conversion ICs. Read more

May 23, 2011 IAR Systems is offering its software development toolsuite IAR Embedded Workbench to completely support the ultra-low-power MSP430FR57xx FRAM (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory) microcontroller series from Texas Instruments . Read more

May 19, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced a battery management integrated circuit that increases the life of rechargeable lithium-ion battery packs and maximizes available energy for hybrid and electric vehicles, power tools and uninterruptible power source (UPS) applications. The stackable bq76PL536 battery monitor, balancer and protector incorporates analog-to-digital converters for independent cell voltage and temperature protection, cell balancing and isolated chip-to-chip communication. Read more

May 18, 2011 BMZ Batterien-Montage-Zentrum, a specialist in the design and manufacture of intelligent battery system solutions, has become an official Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Design House partner of Texas Instruments. Read more

May 11, 2011 Market analyst, IMS Research has released preliminary results which reveal that Texas Instruments (TI) remained the largest supplier in the power management and driver IC market in 2010, a year in which most suppliers experienced an exploding market but struggled at times to have the capacity to meet demand. 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 Two industry groups are pooling their technologies to define a new high speed, low power chip-to-chip interface for next generation mobile silicon. The USB 3.0 Promoters Group and the MIPI Alliance hope to finish and make available a joint specification early next year. 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 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 13, 2011 Texas Instruments has announced delivery of a mobile-grade, battery-optimized Wi-Fi solution to the open source Linux community as part of the OpenLink™ project, focused on providing a wide range of wireless connectivity solutions for native Linux. 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 6, 2011 Latest data from market anaysts, IMS Research suggests that Texas Instruments' acquisition of National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion will create a giant that will dominate the power IC arena. 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 8, 2011 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced at the 2011 Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC) what the company claims is the industry's smallest, most efficient step-down regulators with integrated FETs to support up to 25 A for telecommunications, networking and other applications. 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

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 4, 2011 Texas Instruments introduced what the company claims to be the industry's first Qi certified wireless power development kit, which enables design engineers to speed the integration of wireless power technology in consumer electronics, such as digital cameras, smartphones, MP3 players and global positioning systems, along with infrastructure applications such as furniture and cars. Read more

December 21, 2010 High-efficiency flyback controller and FET driver is said to simplify power design for low-voltage, secondary-side rectification for standard and logic-level N-channel MOSFETs used for low-voltage, secondary-side synchronous rectification. Green Rectifier provides power-saving features and design flexibility not available from traditional diode rectifier solutions. Read more

December 16, 2010 Multi-DC/DC colour LED kit delivers more design flexibility for lighting systems that require a variety of LED types and string lengths. TI claims that the complete and easy-to-use kit enables developers to leverage C2000 real-time control microcontrollers to innovate feature-laden, intelligent automotive and stage lighting applications Read more

December 9, 2010 Texas Instruments is now offering field-proven Telogy Software voice processing modules free to developers designing with C55x and C64x+ DSPs. Available in object code for the first time, TI says the robust set of voice and fax processing modules offer flexibility and shortened development time for designers of VoIP transcoding and gateway solutions. Read more

November 25, 2010 Finding better ways through semicondcutors and other devices to generate, transmit, use and save energy will be a large focus at the upcoming International Electron Devices Meeting. Read more

November 24, 2010 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced its AM1810 Sitara ARM microprocessor (MPU), a new single-chip ARM9 solution with an integrated PROFIBUS interface. The integrated, low-power device eliminates the need for an external PROFIBUS, ASIC or FPGA, which saves development time and cost while improving system performance. 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

November 9, 2010 Infinite Power Solutions and Texas Instruments combine solid-state Infinite Power Solutions (IPS) has teamed with Texas Instruments (TI) to create what the companies claim to be the world's first perpetually-powered digital signal processor (DSP) solution using its industry leading solid-state energy storage solutions and ambient energy harvesting technology. This is made possible by the ultra-low power consumption of TI's TMS320C5515 DSP and the ultra-efficient, high-peak current capability and near loss-less energy storage of the IPS Thinergy Micro-Energy Cell (MEC). Read more

November 8, 2010 Texas Instruments has upgraded its commitment to the EnOcean Alliance for energy-efficient buildings, becoming a promoter of the Alliance of which it has been a member since 2008. By upgrading to promoter status, TI says it is reinforcing its commitment to EnOcean's energy-harvesting wireless technology and will provide its expertise in energy-efficient integrated circuits (ICs). Read more

October 25, 2010 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced an integrated protection device that integrates hot-swap control and precise digital current monitoring. The TPS2480 controller provides accurate measurement of power usage, within one percent accuracy over temperature, allowing system designers to generate a detailed history of system performance, anticipate failures and implement advanced system power health monitoring. 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 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 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 8, 2010 Texas Instruments Inc. said that it will no longer use traditional wirebonding techniques for devices at the 45-/40-nm node and below, as the workhorse chip-packaging technology is fast running out of gas for leading-edge designs. 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

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

March 18, 2010 An ultra low-power, two-channel SATA 3-Gbps redriver and signal conditioner has been introduced by Texas Instruments Incorporated that can extend the interconnect distance between a SATA host and an eSATA connector. Read more

March 15, 2010 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has introduced two efficient 2-A step-down DC/DC converters for portable electronics applications. Read more

March 11, 2010 Texas Instruments Incorporated has introduced three new switch-mode standalone battery charger ICs for lithium-based battery-powered applications with a 5-V to 28-V input. Read more