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To: Ed's Head who wrote (29336)	2/11/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Yesterday TI said that the settop box market will have all of the profitability of the "calculator market." Today TI announced a development kit for settop boxes using is ARM processor (remember, Intel got the StrongARM rights from DEC). Wait, doesn't TI still make calculators? techweb.cmp.com A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted at 10:30 a.m. EST/7:30 a.m. PST, 2/11/98 TI, Integrated Systems create kit for digital set-top box development SUNNYVALE, Calif.--Integrated Systems Inc. here today said it has teamed with Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. to create a new design kit for television and network set-top boxes. Intended to speed development of systems using DSP technology, the new set-top box design kit combines TI's AV7000 series of single-chip solutions with ISI's pSOSystem and pRISM+ development environment. The AV7000 family contains digital signal processing functions and a RISC processor, based on the ARM architecture from Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. of Cambridge, England. The design kit is intended to speed development of differentiated digital set-top box systems, according to 18-year-old ISI. "With the set-top-box (STB) design kit and TI's AV7000 chip series, we are effectively enabling a designer to create a STB on a chip -- with all functionality embedded directly onto the processor," said David St. Charles, CEO of ISI. "We expect this new ARM development environment to shave months off the design process. The end result will be a set-top-box with better performance, lower production costs and a lower price tag for the customer." The design kit is scheduled to be available by the end of the first quarter.