Texas Instruments' DSP Timeline of Important Events

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1990: TI offers the first DSP C-source debugger and optimizing ANSI C tools.

TI discloses the second floating-point generation, the TMS320C4x, the first DSP architecture designed for the construction of higher performance systems using parallel digital signal processing. Applications include 3-D graphics, digital base stations and other high-speed communication applications, virtual-reality simulators, image processing for MRI and CT medical imaging systems and speech recognition.

TI creates the industry’s first DSP starter kit ...

... the C2x DSK, a DSP tool that allows designers to experiment with and use DSPs for real-time digital signal processing without a large investment.

1991: TI announces the first DSP to cost less than $5 in single quantities. This price for the C1x is comparable to 16-bit microcontrollers, but DSPs provides five to ten times the performance.

TI is the first to offer core-based DSP design with customizable DSP (cDSP). cDSP provides a higher level of DSP system integration with faster time-to-market.

1992: DSPs become one of the fastest growing segments within the automobile electronics market. The math-intensive, real-time calculating capabilities of DSPs provide future solutions for active suspension, closed-loop engine control systems, intelligent cruise control radar systems, anti-skid braking systems and car entertainment systems.

1993: TI creates the TMS320 Software Cooperative, the industry’s first comprehensive DSP software package, containing more than 100 off-the-shelf third-party digital signal processing algorithms for applications including speech, image, motor control and telecommunications software.

1994: TI unveils the industry’s highest performance DSP ever with two billion operations per second (BOPS) performance, ten times that of any other DSP. The TMS320C80 is the first commercially available single-chip processor to combine multiple parallel DSPs and a RISC processor onto one chip. The C80 enables real-time, full-duplex interactive videoconferencing, imaging systems, fuzzy logic industrial control, PC sound cards and noise cancellation. More than 65 U.S. patent applications are filed for C80 technology advancements.

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