Announcements

Our industry-leading processors are now available with secure-boot capabilities

2011-06-14T20:55:00Z

Are your worried about the security of your embedded system? Don’t be. Today, we announced developers now have a new level of protection against unauthorized reading of intellectual property and sensitive data in our C6748 digital signal processors (DSPs) and OMAP-L138 DSP + ARM® processors. The secure boot capability on these processors protects proprietary intellectual property and prevents external entities from modifying custom algorithms, making them ideal for applications such as public safety communications and medical monitoring equipment. With multi-level encryption, developers also have the ability to upgrade their boot and application code remotely while allowing the boot to remain secure when software upgrades are needed.

For less than one dollar more from non-secure embedded processors, these secure-boot-enabled processors offer much more functionality. Production pricing starts at $21.40 per 1,000 units (1ku) for the OMAP-L138 DSP + ARM processor and $18 per 1ku for the C6748 DSP.

Make sure you are protected today. Let us know what you think about these secure-boot-enabled processors.

For more information on these processors, check out www.ti.com

Regards,

Joy Ji
TI Product Marketing Manager

Helping Products "See Smarter": Announcing the Embedded Vision Alliance

2011-05-31T19:08:00Z

Can you see it?
Can you see it now?

If not, you will be able to soon. Consumer demand for “sight” in every application is growing rapidly. It will revolutionize the way we work, communicate and play, allowing customers to take computing from large rooms to pockets.

TI is on the frontline of this embedded vision revolution. Today, we announced our founding membership in the Embedded Vision Alliance (EVA), a new industry collaboration led by BDTI.

Check out our website at www.ti.com/embedded-vision to find out what we’re doing to inspire revolutionary embedded vision technology and provide developers with the tools they will need in order to effectively incorporate embedded vision technology in their designs.

Leave us a note to let us know what we can do within the EVA to help you develop vision technologies: What tools are you missing to take your devices to the next level? What development problems are you experiencing for which the alliance can provide solutions?

If you’re interesting in learning more about the Embedded Vision Alliance, visit BDTI’s website at www.bdti.com/embedded-vision.

TI sees clear future ahead with two new DaVinci digital media processor generations

2011-03-01T22:53:39Z

Can you see us now? Video is everywhere today! It's bringing the world together with life-like video communications, increasing public safety with video security, making driving safer with real-time automotive vision and providing the highest-quality entertainment to consumers. TI is helping enable video everywhere. In fact, today at Embedded World, we introduced two new video processors that have been described as "game-changers" for the video space. These processors transform the video space with 3x greater HD video processing performance over our competitors - the high-performance DM8168 DaVinciT digital media processor and the software compatible, power-efficient DM8148 DaVinciT digital media processor.

The DM8168 DaVinci digital media processor offers up to three simultaneous streams of 1080p60 fps with a ton of lower resolution stream options.

The DM8148 DaVinci digital media processor offers a single channel of 1080p60 fps at 3 watts!

Developing video products with these two new processors is easy with a comprehensive EZ software development kit (SDK) from TI. Utilizing our comprehensive evaluation module and TI's EZ SDK, developers can evaluate and minutes and begin development in less than an hour. Compatibility with OpenMAX allows ease of development. We also offer support for Qt, Android, Linux and more!

It's your turn. What do YOU think about these new products? Where do you see video going in the future?

For more information on these processors, visit DM8168<http://www.ti.com/3xvideodm8168prpf> DaVinci digital media processors

or DM8148<http://www.ti.com/3xvideodm8148prpf> DaVinci digital media processors.

Register for TI’s ARM TechCon course: Complementing ARM with Easy DSP Development for TI’s Community Platforms

2010-11-02T17:02:00Z

TI is hosting an introductory course at ARM TechCon to discuss the new, free C6EZRun and C6EZAccel tools, which developers quickly and simply leverage the digital signal processor (DSP) from within their ARM® applications and code. The C6EZRun is an open source development tool that makes it easy to build and run custom code on the DSP. C6EZAccel provides ARM code access to optimized DSP libraries through simple application programming interfaces (APIs). Daniel Allred, DSP software architecture engineer, will show you how to leverage these new tools to partition application C code between the ARM and DSP in your system-on-chip (SOC) and utilize the power of the DSP’s real-time signal processing capabilities to complement the ARM’s general purpose processing.

DSP architectures are optimized for real-time signal processing and provide a significant performance improvement over ARM cores with NEON acceleration for such applications. These performance improvements can be up to 10 times for certain use cases. In recent years, TI has helped create and promote low-cost, community-driven development platforms to showcase the power of TI’s heterogeneous (C6000 DSP + ARM) SoCs, including the newly announced high-performance C6A816x Integra™ DSP + ARM processors.

We hope to see you at ARM TechCon! We have limited seating and swag, so sign up now athttps://esc.embedded.com/armtechcon/2010/registrations

Our newest generation of Integra™ DSP + ARM® processors are announced today!

2010-10-19T16:49:00Z

Today, we introduced the Integra™ platform of DSP + ARM® processors to our portfolio. The C6A816x Integra DSP + ARM processors, the newest generation of Integra processors, contain the industry’s highest-performing single-core floating- and fixed-point DSP at up to 1.5 GHz and the highest-performing single-core ARM Cortex™-A8 at up to 1.5 GHz.

The C6A816x Integra DSP + ARM processors feature extreme system integration to reduce BOM cost and board space. This BOM cost reduction is made possible by incorporating the DSP and ARM, along with high-bandwidth peripherals, 3D graphics and advanced display capabilities on a single chip.

Not only will you save money with the reduction in BOM costs, but you can also save time with TI’s new EZ software development kit (EZ SDK) and single evaluation module (EVM). The EZ SDK, EVM and development environment enable customers to demo in less than 10 minutes and begin development in less than an hour.

How can you use these new processors? You can develop a highly scalable solution with intensive digital signal processing functionality for a variety of applications, such as machine vision, avionics, medical and biological cell sorting and high-end test and measurement.

Now it’s your turn—what will you do with these processors?

For more information on these processors, go to C6A816x Integra DSP + ARM.

Let us know what you think about the C6A816x Integra DSP + ARM processors!