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| Preview – PurePath™ Wireless audio technology |
| At the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Texas Instruments demonstrated its new PurePath™ Wireless audio technology, delivering the industry’s highest performance CD-quality wireless audio solution. The CC85xx family takes advantage of TI’s design expertise in both audio and low-power RF products to provide a 2.4-GHz system-on-chip that transmits uncompressed audio over a state-of-the-art RF link with no unwanted noise or dropouts. These single-chip, integrated devices will lower total system cost in consumer, portable and professional audio applications, such as wireless headphones and wireless speakers. The two-channel CC8520 will be sampling and in volume production in March 2010. Future devices in the family will include the CC8521 (two channels with USB), CC8530 (three channels) and CC8531 (three channels with USB).
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CC8520 press release |
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| Get more range out for IEEE TI radio family with the CC259X combo boards |
 Texas Instruments now offers a combo board for the IEEE radio product family. The CC259X EMK combo boards provide a single board evaluation platform to demonstrate greater range for your end product. Be sure to also check on our reference designs and the CC259x Q&A document for additional information at www.ti.com.
CC2520-CC2591 combo board
CC2530-CC2591 combo board
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| SmartRF Studio, version 6.13.0 |
| SmartRF® Studio is a Windows application that can be used to evaluate and configure Low Power RF ICs from Texas Instruments. The new version has added support for CC2530-CC2591 and CC430. |
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Download the TI Smart FR Studio version 6.13.0 |
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| SimpliciTI™ 1.1.1 Supporting CC430 and CCS – download at www.ti.com/simpliciti |
| SimpliciTI 1.1.1 is now available with support for the new MSP430 SoC CC430 and Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio (CCS) IDE. SimpliciTI™ is a low-power RF protocol aimed at simple, small RF networks. This open-source software is an excellent start for building a network with battery-operated devices using one of TI’s low-power RF System-on-Chips (SoC) or the MSP430 ultra-low-power MCU and a TI RF transceiver. |
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download at www.ti.com/simpliciti |
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| DN118 Porting SimpliciTI to the SmartRF CCxx10 Target Board |
| The design note shows how to port the existing SimpliciTI examples to the SmartRF CC2510/CC1110 target boards, included in the CC2510/CC1110 mini kits
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| CC1070 Data Sheet updated |
| Additional information added about the DMA and radio interrupts.
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| DN107 on DMA and Radio Configuration updated |
| The RSQ package drawing has been replaced with RGW package drawing.
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| CC1111 Dongle USB certified |
 The CC1111 USB dongle reference design demonstrates how to make a compact USB dongle with the CC1111 System-on-Chip, a chip antenna in conjunction with a special PCB trace and single sided components mounting. Schematics and layout files for the CC1111 USB dongle is included in the reference design. The reference design demonstrates good techniques for CC1111 decoupling and RF layout. For optimum RF performance, these parts should be copied accurately. This is a 4-layer reference design with a discrete balun and a compact antenna solution. The antenna solution is recommended for applications operating in the 868/915 MHz frequency range requiring a small antenna solution. |
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| Monster redefines traditional power supply technology with the award-winning HTUPS 3700 Powercenter |
Monster, the industry leader in power protection and conditioning products, announced the availability of its HTUPS 3700 uninterruptible home theater power supply. In January the HTUPS 3700 was honored with a prestigious Innovations 2010 Design and Engineering Award by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), featuring technologies that go far beyond surge protection offering such advancements as clean power filtering, remote access control and more, significantly adding value to any home entertainment system.
TI’s CC11xx technology was adopted by Monster for their new GreenPower product line. The 3700 is the first product in the expanding GreenPower product portfolio. Monster collaborated with TI’s 3P design partner, Arrayent, Inc. who selected the TI CC1110 for RF communication between the HTUPS 3700 and an internet gateway. The CC1110 gives full-house coverage without an extra power amplifier, and the gateway ensures that the user can monitor and control the HTUPS 3700 from anywhere in the world through a web interface or smartphone.
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More about Monster’s award-winning HTUPS 3700 |
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| Zolertia launches Z1 WSN platform to speed up 6LowPAN prototyping time |
 Z1 is a general-purpose development platform that is committed to accelerate the development speed and expandability of your applications or proof of concepts. Intended for researchers, developers, enthusiasts and hobbyists, in the Z1 you will find a compatible platform with the successful Tmote™-like family of motes with out-of-the-box support for TinyOS and 6LoWPAN. Thanks to the powerful combination of Texas Instruments’ 2nd-generation MSP430f2617+CC2420 transceiver, you may increase the battery life and program size of your next WSN applications and seamlessly migrate your previous applications by simply recompiling. Furthermore, the 54-pin expansion connector surely will not turn you down in those high pin count applications where you may need more peripherals from your MCU.
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For more information, visit www.zolertia.com/ti |
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| Low-Power RF in Las Vegas |
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At the CES 2010 TI’s Low-Power RF business unit showcased live demonstrations of ZigBee solutions, as well as single mode and dual-mode Bluetooth® low energy. A highlight was the unveiling of TI’s wireless audio technology, the PurePath™ Wireless Audio solution.
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Check out a demonstration of the PurePath™ solution at ecnmag.com |
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| DASH7 Alliance and Texas Instruments Join Forces to Bring Wireless Networking to the Mass Market |
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The first RF system-on-chip (SoC) to comply with the DASH7 (ISO 18000-7) standard, the CC430 MCU family provides DASH7 developers with a robust and inexpensive platform for building DASH7 wireless networking devices and applications.
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| Industry’s first passive low frequency interface (PaLFI) with battery charge function from TI enables remotely powered medical, industrial and consumer products |
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New PaLFI device wirelessly powers an MSP430™ MCU at ranges up to one meter. The device combines a low frequency wireless interface with an SPI interface which ensures ultra-stable communication within a very well defined activation/communication zone. PaLFI has the ability to remotely communicate with and power implantable medical devices, making procedures less invasive. Among numerous other potential applications, the device is also being used for production chain or container tracking and end of line configuration of electronic equipment such as CD/DVD players and measurement instruments.
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New MSP430F4xx ultra-low-power MCUs provide analog front-end needs and achieve leading accuracy for electricity and gas metering applications
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Due to increased legislation and various implementation standards across the U.S. and Europe, utilities are seeking compliant metering solutions that will meet stringent, energy efficient guidelines. The MSP430F4xx generation expands its smart metering portfolio to address these needs by offering 16 new ultra-low-power MSP430™ microcontrollers (MCU) targeted at electricity and gas metering applications. These new F4xx devices are highly integrated solutions that can support standalone analog front-end (AFE) needs and achieve leading accuracy results of better than 0.1 percent.
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