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Tools in 2020: Development tools are key to SoC implementation

By Reid Tatge, TI Fellow Customers need chips, tools and software that match the specific needs of their application. In addition, they need everything to be simple to design into a product, easy to program efficiently, ultra-low power and ultra-low cost...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2009 9:40 PM

Tags: lunatic fringe, gene frantz, processor, Innovation, digital signal processing, new idea, DSP theory, DSPing, DSPor, futurist, SoC
From 2009 to 2020: A history of developments in programmability

Alan Gatherer, CTO Communications Infrastructure Group Predicting the future is primarily an act of the imagination. However, Digital Signal Processors are showing some strong trends and I think it is possible to predict what will happen in the next few...

Published Wed, Sep 02 2009 3:18 PM

Tags: lunatic fringe, gene frantz, wireless, Innovation, Texas Instruments, digital signal processing, new idea, DSPing, DSPor, futurist, Communications infrastructure
Processor Architectures – Where will we will be in 2020?

Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I started some discussions early last year about where technology would be in 2020 when I originally posted this blog. Since then, I have worked with some of the top technical...

Published Wed, Jul 29 2009 10:33 AM

Tags: lunatic fringe, gene frantz, processor, architectures, 2020, semiconductor industry, Innovation, digital signal processing, new idea, DSP theory, DSPing, DSPor, futurist
A buck a billion

Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP Last year I spent a lot of time looking at where our industry would be in the year 2020 ( see 2-6-08 blog here ) and came up with some interesting predictions on everything...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2009 10:42 AM

Tags: lunatic fringe, gene frantz, moore's law, Innovation, digital signal processing, new idea, DSPing, DSPor, futurist
The End of Moore’s Law

Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I have spoken to several people over the last couple of days on the topic of the end of Moore’s Law. So I thought it would be fun to throw a few thoughts out on that...

Published Thu, Jun 18 2009 1:18 PM

Tags: lunatic fringe, gene frantz, moore's law, processor, architectures, semiconductor industry, Innovation, Texas Instruments, digital signal processing, DSPing, DSPor, futurist
I found Twitter, or Twitter found me…now what?

Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP When I heard about this Twitter thing, it fell into the category of things my generation just didn’t do. Really, why do I care what people are thinking right now or...

Published Wed, May 27 2009 2:58 PM

Tags: lunatic fringe, gene frantz, Innovation, digital signal processing, new idea, DSP theory, DSPor, Texas Instruments: twitter, futurist
My trip to China and what I learned at the Universities: DSP Theory or DSP Design?

Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP As I was sitting in the airport in Shanghai waiting for my flight back to the US, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what I saw in China. My original purpose for the trip...

Published Thu, May 14 2009 11:37 AM

Tags: gene frantz, china, semiconductor industry, Texas Instruments, digital signal processing, TMS320C67x, new idea, DSP theory, DSPing, TMS320C5416, University, DSPor
Floating a new idea

Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP We recently announced a new floating-point core that allows our designers to do fixed- and floating-point instructions on the same DSP opening up many new applications that need this...

Published Wed, May 06 2009 10:50 AM

Tags: gene frantz, processor, 16 bit, 32 bit, TMS320C67x, new idea, floating point, TMS3206743, TMS320C6743, C6000™ Floating-point DSPs
The price is right for innovation

Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP In my last blog, I talked about how the economy can be a trigger point for innovation. This time I will look at the role price plays. As I have thought about TI’s history of introducing...

Published Wed, Apr 08 2009 5:45 PM

Tags: lunatic fringe, gene frantz, economic downturn, Innovation, speak and spell, cell phone, Jack Kilby, integrated circuit, calculator, digital signal processing
The upside to the downturn

Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP Times are tough. We are in a financial crisis and we are spending our future to try to get out of it. We are losing our jobs and our companies are in chaos. This seems to just about...

Published Tue, Mar 10 2009 5:14 PM

Tags: gene frantz, economic downturn, economy, semiconductor industry, Innovation, Texas Instruments

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