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DaVinci Who’s Who in DaVinci™ Technology Product Design Read about companies using DaVinci technology for cost-effective, high-quality video output in a variety of applications, including video phones and video surveillance.

DaVinci Webcast: Windows® CE for DaVinci Technology - Open the door to a new world of digital video designs made possible through this familiar development environment. Register today for the August 2 webcast or download archived webcasts.

2007 “Medical Applications Guide” Now Available - Find system block diagrams, components, tools and evaluation modules for medical consumer, portable, diagnostic, imaging and instrumentation applications including blood pressure monitors, digital thermometers, ECGs, EEGs, ventilation, ultrasound and more.

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Silicon

Underwater Vehicle Leverages TI Digital Signal Controller - A Canadian university team will enter their autonomous underwater vehicle, integrated with TMS320F28x DSC technology for sonar detection, to compete in tests designed to advance subsurface navigation technology.

New 300-MFLOPS SoC: Breakthrough for Industrial Applications - The TMS320F28335 floating-point digital signal controller offers system-on-chip integration with 512-KB flash, 18 PWMs, a 12.5-MSPS 12-bit ADC and peripherals for industrial automation and control, digital power and intelligent sensing.

TMS320C6727 DSP: Work Horse Behind New Voice Conferencing Solution - Polycom’s SoundStructure™ taps the C6727 DSP's precision, speed and performance to create a more natural and realistic video conferencing experience.

New Low-Power RF System-on-Chip for ZigBee® - TI’s new CC2431 is the first SoC with a hardware location engine targeting low-power ZigBee wireless sensor networking applications.

Software
DM643x™ Codecs Now Available for Evaluation - The new DM643x codecs include H.264 encode, H.264 BP decode, H.264 MP decode, MPEG-2 decode, MPEG-4 decode, MPEG-4 encode and MP3 decode.

TI Named in "SDTimes 100" - The "Software Development Times" named TI a winner in the embedded category, saying, "The legendary chipmaker has left its DSP competitors in the dust with the DaVinci line's SDK for Windows CE …".

New Sundance Platform Harnesses DSP Strength for Powerful Image/Video Applications
- The new Digital Video Infrastructure Platform is based on TI’s 1GHz TMS320C6455 DSP and a scalable architecture that connects multiple DSPs via a Serial Rapid I/O interface.
Support
Sharpen Your Design Skills at Multi-Day Workshops - Expand your knowledge of DSP technology at the three to five day workshops. These advanced educational sessions provide significant "hands on" sections emphasizing the demonstration and application of techniques and skills.

TI Exhibits at IFA Consumer Electronics Show - TI will showcase a wide range of audio technology at one of the world's largest consumer electronics trade fairs (Aug. 31–Sept. 5, 2007 in Berlin).

Video and Imaging Application Notes - Download the variety of video and imaging app notes to support your DaVinci technology designs. Browse titles such as "Understanding the DaVinci Preview Engine" and check back often for newly uploaded app notes.

TI Tech Tips



Why do I sometimes get artifacts on the screen when using the DaVinci VPSS resizer?
A write overflow condition occurs when data is input from SDRAM and processed by the resizer faster than data can be output back to SDRAM, likely because of output bandwidth starvation. Learn more.

Application Notes
and Errata



Application Notes:
Getting Started With TMS320C28x™ Digital Signal Controllers

TMS320F2808 Power Controller Board

DSP Errata:
TMS320F28044 DSP Silicon Errata

Article Index



The eTech Innovations article index enables you to easily find archived eTech stories by date (through June 2007) or by subject, including the following categories:

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- Software
- Support

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