Texas Instruments Highlights Latest Technology and Application Solutions at Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley

DALLAS, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The following was released today by Texas Instruments Incorporated :

WHAT: Continuing to make customers' design visions a reality through leading signal processing technology, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) will be showcasing the latest solutions for a variety of applications including consumer appliances, embedded control, industrial and advanced video solutions at booth 1220 during the Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. TI will demonstrate industry-leading, advanced digital signal processing (DSP), microcontroller (MCU), analog and low-power wireless solutions in a wide array of technological applications and systems. WHEN: April 3-7, 2006 For the conference agenda, please see: http://www.embedded.com/esc/sv/overview/event/ WHERE: Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, Calif. Booth 1220 CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES: TI will conduct 12 in-depth technology sessions at the Embedded Systems Conference. TI's top engineers will present on a variety of topics that reveal strategies and tools for developing today's application-driven solutions. Monday, April 3 Microprocessor Forum 2:00 PM Low End Processors Breakout Session-Microprocessor Summit, Ultra-Low Power MSP430 MCUs. Mike Mitchell 2:00 PM Media Processors Breakout Session-Microprocessor Summit, DaVinci. Thanh Tran 4:00 PM Digital Signal Controllers Breakout Session- Microprocessor Summit, TMS320C2000(TM) digital signal controllers. Arefeen Mohammed Tuesday, April 4 10:15 AM Specialized Data Converter Applications-Analog Design Seminar. Bernd Rundel and Jim Todsen 2:00 PM Overview of PCI Express Technology-Analog Design Seminar. Kevin Main 4:30 PM Clocking Issues Paper Session-Analog Design Seminar. Georg Becke Wednesday, April 5 8:30 AM Digital Power for High-End Systems-Power Management Design Seminar. David Freeman Thursday, April 6 7:15 AM Digital Video Compression and Codecs-Shop Talk. Jeremiah Golston 8:30 AM Software Performance Engineering for Real-Time Embedded Systems-Technical Session. Rob Oshana 11:00 AM Cache Optimization in Embedded Systems-Technical Session. Rob Oshana 11:00 AM Reaping the Benefits of SoCs for Video Applications- Consumer Video Design Seminar. Jeremiah Golston 3:00 PM Video Compression: Evaluating System Tradeoffs with H.264, VC1, and others-Consumer Video Design Seminar. Ajit Rao DEMOS: The following demonstrations will be at TI booth 1220, highlighting the latest innovations from Texas Instruments and TI's third party network. Chipcon CC2431 ZigBee SoC solution with location engine The CC2431 with Location Engine is a true System-on- Chip solution for ZigBee(TM)/IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networking. Chipcon RadioDesk(TM) wireless keyboard & mouse This production-ready reference design is robust with low total-system-cost and a high performance solution. Complete motor control with analog front end and DSP- based controller Illustrating industrial motor control solutions, this demo features the 12-channel/12-bit ADS7869 analog front end in a high performance motor control application using TI's TMS320F2812 digital signal controller. TMS320C6455 DSP with serial RapidIO(R) development support The C6455 DSP, based on the C64x+(TM) DSP core and at the heart of the EVM and DSK, brings together TI's highest performing DSP architecture with sRIO support to boost performance and I/O bandwidth in high-end and multichannel applications. TMS320C55x(TM) power optimization DSP starter kit for extended battery life in portable applications The new TMS320C55x(TM) Power Optimization DSK optimizes and maximizes the power efficiency and battery life of portable and mobile applications. DaVinci(TM) digital video evaluation module DaVinci technology is optimized for digital video systems and includes digital signal processor (DSP) based SoCs, multimedia codecs, ASPs and frameworks and development tools. TMS470 ARM7 MCU Kickstart plug and play development kit The Kickstart Development Kit for TMS470 MCUs is a unique development environment with all necessary signal chain hardware and software for your application's development work in a plug and play environment. TMS320C2000(TM) digital signal controllers for high performance embedded control Real time embedded control will be demonstrated with a pendulum continually balanced in an inverted position. Also being highlighted will be power line communications (PLC) demonstration showing how data can be transmitted and received via existing low-, medium- and high-voltage power lines, as well as an intelligent sensing application demonstration based on Rockwell Automation's Zero-Force(TM) Touch Buttons MSP430 Ultra Low Power MCUs Highlighting the industry's lowest power MCU, TI will be demonstrating a number of applications and the eZ430 development tool -- the world's smallest complete development tool which provides all hardware and software needed to evaluate the MSP430 MCU or complete an entire F20xx project. TI Third Party Solutions

In TI's leading third parties will also be showing a wide variety of demonstrations on TI silicon using third party software and hardware including:

Blackhawk, Spectrum Digital, d3 Engineering, Empower Technologies, The Mathworks, Spark Fun Electronics, Wintech Digital Systems Technology Corp., ANT Dynastream, Jaluna, Rapid IO, Green Hills Software and Clarity

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.

Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com/ .

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TMS320C2000, DaVinci, TMS320C55x, RadioDesk and C64x+ are trademarks of Texas Instruments. ZigBee is a trademark of the Zigbee Alliance. Zero-Force is a trademark of Rockwell Automation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.