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January 2007
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DaVinciDaVinci™ Technology Drives Next-Gen Car Safety Features – A new white paper, “Transforming Performance to Safety in Automotive Applications,” discusses astounding next-generation car safety technology – enabled by TMS320DM643x DaVinci processors – that could help reduce automotive-related deaths.

PMIC for DaVinci Technology-Based Portable Electronics – TI's TPS65023 power management integrated circuit (PMIC) supports all power system requirements of a multimedia device based on DaVinci technology. Discover how the TPS65023 simplifies power design in portable media players, digital still cameras and other lithium-battery powered electronics.

TI Introduces First Automotive IEC 61508-Compliant SolutionA new automotive microcontroller solution is the first to be certified at the highest level of automotive manufacturing safety standards set by the International Electrotechnical Commission.

TI Program Supports Rice University’s Design of a Single-Pixel Camera – Thanks to new mathematics and a silicon chip covered with thousands of mirrors, Rice University engineers designed a camera that creates an image by capturing just one point of light, or pixel, several thousand times in rapid succession.

Silicon

New Device Should Prove Ideal for High-End Telecom, Wireless, Imaging Infrastructure – The new 1-GHz TMS320C6454 DSP offers twice the memory and I/O bandwidth, full code compatibility and boosted performance without requiring additional investment in software engineering.

New MSP430 eZ430 Development Tool Target Boards Feature 200-ksps, 10-Bit ADC – Developers get three T2012 target boards (compatible with the eZ430 and priced at less than $10!) featuring the MSP430F2012 MCU and a 200-ksps, 10-bit ADC.

Pocket-Size Oscilloscope Wins First Place in MSP430 Contest – Judges chose the “pocket-scope” from more than 100 design entries worldwide at the fifth annual MSP430 Advanced Technical Conference.

Reduce Consumption in Complex Systems by Designing for Power Early – A new white paper, “Optimizing Power Consumption in DSP Designs,” explains why achieving ultra-low power in complex systems with multiple applications and operating modes is possible.

Software

H.264 Video Encoder Software Saves Years of Development Time – An online folder for TI’s H.264 baseline profile encoder software is now available, complete with the latest pricing, features and order information.

Mango Offers Raven M/X2 Two- and Four-Channel Intelligent Video Encoders – The Mango Raven video encoder delivers MPEG-4/H.264 running at full D1 with video analytics from leading content analysis providers.

Check Out DaVinci TMS320DM644x Benchmarks – Find useful information about the DM644x benchmarks, including FFTs, vector, search, image/video compression and decompression, and telecom examples.

Support

Ask the Experts at TIDC 2007 – Meet the mastermind of the so-called lunatic fringe, Gene Frantz, along with other experts from across the signal processing industry, and take advantage of their design expertise at the TI Developer Conference Worldwide.

TI DSP Resource Guide Invaluable to Designers – Download the new designers’ guide to TI DSP platform and application solutions, development systems and engineering services offered by TI’s DSP Third Party Network.

Free Online Seminar Examines DaVinci Technology – Download this highly technical seminar to explore the hardware, software and system capabilities of DM644x devices based on DaVinci technology.

Embedded Edge™ Magazine
Each issue of the eTech Innovations eNewsletter includes Embedded Edge articles that we hope will interest you.

D3 Engineering Provides App Support and Development for New DaVinci Processors – D3 Engineering supports the TMS320DM643x digital media processors for customers in medical imaging, machine vision, military surveillance and automotive vision.

New AMC-Based EVM Streamlines High-Density Audio/Video Application Development
Surf Communications Solutions has launched an application development environment for telecom customers to design with various TI DSPs and network interfaces from their desktop.

Ingenient Offers HD-Quality Multimedia Software – Ingenient Technologies has introduced its HD-quality solution for video and vision applications, which features TI's DM643x processors based on DaVinci technology.

TI Tech Tips



A new release of the Code Generation Tools was released. I renamed the old code generation tools directory. Code Composer Studio™ IDE won't build a project. There is a file that comes with Code Composer Studio IDE that is stored in the Code Generation Tools build directory.

Application Notes
and Errata



Application Notes:
TMS320C6455/C6454 DSP Power Consumption Summary

Building a Small Embedded Linux Kernel Example


DSP Errata:

TMS320C64x™ DSP Errata

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