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To: Patriarch who wrote (4668)	10/18/1999 11:03:00 PM
From: Jack Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6180

With 250 million units shipped and a code compatible roadmap to the future, the TMS320C5000 (tm) DSP platform from TI is the clear choice for designing next-generation digital communications applications. Please go to ti.com for complete specs and technical documentation, or read on for news about the world's most popular DSPs - and an free tools offer from TI. TMS320C5420 in volume production today: The 'C5420 is the most highly integrated fixed-point DSP available and is in volume production today. This device consists of two DSP cores on single chip with 200 million instructions per second (MIPS) of performance while consuming less than 260 mW of power. 'C5420 features include: * 200K words of RAM * Six serial ports * DMA controller * 16-bit host port interface (HPI) * 12 x 12 x 1.4 mm microStar (TM) BGA TMS320C5402 in volume production today: The 'C5402 delivers up to 100 MIPS for only $5 (50K unit quantity price), making it the industry's most cost-effective, general-purpose solution for single-channel, end-user terminals such as wireless modems, next-generation personal digital assistants (PDAs) and Ethernet phones. TMS320C5409 sampling today: The 100 MIPS 'C5409 integrates 32K words of SRAM, 16K words of ROM, three multi-channel buffered serial ports (McBSP), DMA controller and a HPI. Sampling today, this device provides high performance, low-power consumption and a small form factor making it well suited for audio and portable consumer applications, wireless and cordless telephones, miniaturized hands-free wireless communications and IP phones. NEW 'C5402 and 'C5409 ultra-low voltage DSPs sampling today: New, ultra-low voltage 'C5402 and 'C5409 devices are sampling today. Consuming as little as 15mW of power, these ultra-low voltage devices are well suited for battery-powered personal medical devices such as cochlear implants and hearing aids as well as wireless and telephony devices. Ultra-low voltage 'C5402 and 'C5409 devices include: * TMS320UC5402-1.8V core and I/O * TMS320UC5409-1.8V core and I/O * TMS320UVC5402-1.2V core, 1.8V I/O * TMS320UVC5409-1.2V core, 1.8V I/O Code Composer Studio (tm) for C5000 DSP's are now shipping: The Code Composer Studio integrated development environment (IDE) provides the DSP industry's first truly intuitive, easy-to-use, development tool interface and comes complete with a powerful list of features to reduce development time. Features that include real-time system analysis, data visualization and standardized application programming interfaces, which allow users to extend the environment with plug-ins. TMS320C5000 Code Composer Studio includes: * Code Composer Studio IDE including debugger, editor, profiler and project manager * Industry's first Visual Linker (available 1Q00) * DSP/BIOS * Real-Time Data eXchange (RTDX(tm)) * Efficient C compiler/assembler/linker tools * Instruction set architecture simulator New TMS320C5000 Code Composer Studio Free Evaluation Tools (FETs) from Texas Instruments are full-featured, full-function 30-day time-limited versions of the C5000 DSP's software development tools, and are now available for download at ti.com The Code Composer Studio FETs are new and improved C5000 development tools and will run even if you have already downloaded and used a prior version of the C5000 DSP platform's FETs. eXpressDSP (tm) Real-time Software Technology: Texas Instruments has also created a complete open software development environment with the introduction of eXpressDSP Real-time Software Technology. eXpressDSP provides a combination of software coding standards with integrated tools for both the host PC and the target C5000 DSP so design engineers have a complete environment that simplifies the entire development process and gets you to market faster. For more information go to ti.com For complete information on the entire TMS320 (tm) family of DSPs, please go to: ti.com Thank you, Texas Instruments

To: Patriarch who wrote (4668)	10/20/1999 6:14:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 6180

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS[TXN-news] CFO SEES NO SIGNS OF CUSTOMERS STOCKPILING BEFORE Y2K DALLAS, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Texas Instruments Inc. [TX-news], the world's leading maker of computer chips for mobile phones, said Tuesday it sees no signs that its industrial customers are stockpiling components in case of Y2K computer glitches in the supply chain. "We don't see any indications of our customers stockpiling product. What we believe is occurring in our markets, in telecommunications and so on, is genuine end-user demand driving our own customers' demand," chief financial officer Bill Aylesworth told Reuters. Some commentators, including U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, have said there is a potential for economic disruption if consumers or companies start a run on supplies before the rollover to the year 2000, which may trigger some computer errors. But Aylesworth said TI is experiencing nothing but "normal strong demand" in the final quarter of 1999 for the semiconductors it makes for wireless phones and other digital communications devices, such as cable and high-speed modems. The year-end demand for wireless products is likely to drop off somewhat in the first three months of 2000, but only because of the usual decline in consumer spending immediately after the Christmas holiday season, he said. "There's normally a seasonal drop-off in areas like wireless communications, but other than what is normal seasonally we see no reason to believe there will be anything other than that," Aylesworth said.