Source: Texas Instruments
April 8, 2008

Texas Instruments showcases leading technologies and solutions at Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley

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, medical, telecommunications and advanced digital video solutions at booth #1708 during the Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. TI will demonstrate industry-leading, advanced digital signal processing (DSP), microcontroller (MCU), analog, low-power wireless and ZigBee® solutions in a wide array of technological applications and systems.

WHEN: April 14-17, 2008

For the conference agenda, please see:

http://www.cmp-egevents.com/web/esv/home

WHERE: Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley

McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, Calif.

Booth #1708

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES:
TI will conduct seven in-depth technology sessions at the Embedded Systems Conference. Top engineers from TI will present on a variety of topics that reveal strategies and tools for developing today’s application-driven solutions.

Tuesday, April 15

8:30 a.m. Converter Voltage Reference Performance Improvement Secrets – Analog Design/Data Conversion: Miroslav Oljaca

12:30 p.m. Exploit the ADC to Your Advantage – Analog Design/Data Conversion: Bonnie Baker

2:30 p.m. Driving Charge Distribution Converters – Analog Design/Data Conversion: Bonnie Baker

4:30 p.m. Optimize Your DS-Mux System with Low Latency Strategies – Analog Design/Data Conversion: Bonnie Baker

Wednesday, April 16

2:00 p.m. System Visibility via Call Graphs – Verification & Debugging: George Mock

Thursday, April 17

8:30 a.m. Choosing A Wireless Protocol: 802.15.4 vs. ZigBee vs. Proprietary – Wired & Wireless Networking: Miguel Morales, Kevin Belnap

8:30 a.m. An Introduction to IEEE 1149.7 – Verification & Debugging: Stephen Lau

DEMOS: The following demonstrations will be at TI booth #1708, highlighting the latest innovations from Texas Instruments and TI’s third party network.

Wireless home automation/security

The home of the future will require higher levels of automation to power common household functions, such as security and system control. This demonstration uses TI’s ultra-low-power MSP430 microcontrollers (MCUs), low-power wireless transceivers and the SimpliciTITM network protocol to create a system that automates household devices such as lights, smoke detectors, glass breakage detectors and motion detectors. The interface is designed to run on a PC and the battery life of each individual sensor is between three and 10 years.

Pulse oximeter

Pulse oximetry is a simple, non-invasive method of monitoring the percentage of hemoglobin (Sp) that is saturated with oxygen in the blood. This interactive pulse oximeter demonstration consists of a MSP430 MCU-powered sensor, which is attached to the patient’s finger. The unit displays the percentage of Sp saturated with oxygen, along with a calculated heart rate and a cardiograph. The ultra-low-power MSP430 MCU controls the LED’s operation (alternated at 500 Hz with intensity control), tracks and removes the DC component and performs all calculations necessary to output the heart rate. It also displays the saturation level (SpO2) and cardiograph through the graphic interface.

CC2480 makes ZigBee® easy

The CC2480 is the first product from TI’s new Z-Accel family of ZigBee-certified network processors, which simplifies design and reduces time-to-market. Z-Accel makes it easy to add ZigBee functionality to new or existing products. This demonstration will highlight the eZ430-RF2480 demo kit, which is a complete USB-based MSP430 wireless demonstration tool providing all the hardware and software to evaluate the CC2480.

Locate your low-power RF solution

TI offers industry-leading proprietary and ZigBee RF ICs that enable innovative low-power wireless applications in the sub-1GHz and 2.4 GHz frequency bands. This demonstration will feature real-world, third-party examples of the CC2431, the industry’s first system-on-chip with a hardware location engine targeting wireless sensor networking applications, such as asset tracking, inventory control, patient monitoring and security.

Complete motor control with Analog Front End and digital signal 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 32-bit digital signal controller (DSC) and is developed using the TMS320F2812 eZdspTM and Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment.

TeleAtlas and AGS demonstration based on OMAP35x processors

This demonstration, based on OMAP35x applications processors, combines solutions from both AGS and TeleAtlas. AGS provides their urban 3D visualization technology for personal navigation devices while TeleAtlas provides their 3D city map and landmark data. It will show a realistic view of the outside world in 3D. This capability has become critically important for the navigation to allow you to “see” the buildings in real time. This is the industry’s first to enable OpenGL ES 2.0 for 3D mapping in the mobile domain.

HD imaging using the DaVinci™ digital media processor

At a price of less than $10, the new DM355 digital media processor provides HD video performance and double the battery life. This demonstration shows the quality of DM355 HD video and images with the Kodak camera dock. The DM355 HD is tuned for applications such as digital cameras, IP video cameras, digital photo frames and video baby monitors.

MSP430 MCU fruit demonstration

The MSP430 team will demonstrate the incredibly low supply current demands of their MSP430 microcontroller by showing how the power generated from a grape plus a copper-zinc battery can power a MSP430 MCU-based device.

LED mixing color lighting board

Control the color and brightness of a lamp or run an automatic color light animation program to suit your mood, the music you are playing, the film you are watching or even the weather outside! The three LEDs generate the color light in red, green and blue, while a MSP430 microcontroller controls the brightness of each LED with constant current generated by three TPS62260 buck converters, one for each LED.

TI Developer Network Solutions
Members of the TI Developer Network will showcase a wide variety of solutions leveraging TI software and hardware. These companies include Chip Supply, Cymbet Corporation, Elprotronic, eSOL Embedded Excellence, HCC-Embedded, JTAG Technologies, Nuvation, Sentilla, Spectrum Digital, Inc., TES Electronic Solutions.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through manufacturing, design and sales operations in more than 25 countries. For more information, go to www.ti.com