Texas Instruments' DSP Timeline of Important Events

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TI creates the highest performance DSP Starter Kit – the C5x DSK, at $99 each. It enables designers who are new to DSP technology to experiment with and use a DSP for real-time digital signal processing without a large initial investment.

TI introduces the first video CD chipset ...

... which provides the manufacturers of home entertainment systems such as CD-based movie players, video games and karaoke systems, with the industry’s first complete integrated solution for a full-motion video (FMV) subsystem for these video CD applications.

cDSP technology enables the first uni-processor DSP hard disc drive (HDD) from Maxtor – the 171-Mbyte PCMCIA Type III HDD. By replacing a number of microcontrollers, drive costs were cut by 30 percent while battery life was extended and storage capacity increased. In 1994, more than 95 percent of all high performance disk drives with a DSP inside contain a TI TMS320 DSP.

TI teams with U.S. Robotics to cut costs and speed modem product development. Joint patents are filed for the first solution to PCMCIA interface integrated with USR’s modem chipset.

1995: TI is the first to bridge the gap between fixed- and floating-point DSPs price/performance with the TMS320C32, priced at less than $10 in high volume and run at 40 million floating-point operations per second (MFLOPS).

TI develops the first DSP Elite Lab program to award the most distinguished electrical engineering programs with DSP tools and technical support.

TI introduces the TMS320C2xx generation for high-performance, low-cost fixed-point design for applications like feature-phones, power-line monitors, modems and security systems. (Delivering 40 MIPS for less than $5 in high volume). The C2xx generation makes a total of eight DSP generations in the TMS320 family, the largest DSP product offering from any supplier.

TI launches two different DSPs, the TMS320C545 and the TMS320C546, to provide the first single DSP solutions for next-generation cellular phone standards. TI is also licensing the industry’s first software for half-rate GSM.

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