Texas Instruments' DSP Timeline of Important Events

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TI introduces the industry’s most highly integrated DSP, the TMS320C82, with a performance of more than 1.5 BOPS. The C82 DSPs are applied in cellular base stations, motor control, digital camcorders and video disk players, digital satellite system, and modems.

TI sponsors an expanded version of the regional DSP design contests – the first-ever worldwide university contest of its type, the “TI DSP Solutions Challenge.” More than 230 engineering teams worldwide enter to win a grand prize of US$100,000.

Online DSP Lab implemented, a laboratory for testing ...

... TI digital signal processing applications design and development tools on the worldwide web. TI also launches, and the first www DSP hotline, the "320 Hotline on-Line."

TI produces the first DSP CD-ROM in conjunction with Electronic Engineering Times.

1996: TI discloses plans to release the TMS320C54x DSP generation to the mass market at 66, 80 and 100 MIPS performance, and discloses the industry’s first widely available (volume production) DSP with on-chip flash memory - the TMS320F206.

TI increases its DSP fab capacity with announcement of a new, $2 billion DMOS6 fabrication facility to be built in Dallas primarily for the manufacturing of DSPs, and is the first to win 1996 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Corporate Innovation Award specifically for technical excellence in the design and application of DSPs.

TI establishes the Jack Kilby IEEE award recognizing accomplishment in DSP. The award is named after TI engineer Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit.

First digital telephone answering device (DTAD) processors...

... which enable true full-duplex speakerphone, caller ID on call waiting and double the message recording time of digital answering machines up to 28 minutes. TI is also one of the first to develop DTAD processors that offer advanced speech compression software and interface directly to a new memory known as NAND flash.

TI creates the first DSP floating-point Starter Kit – the TMS320C3x DSK.

TI's cDSP technology enables Seagate, one of the world’s largest hard disk drive (HDD) maker, to develop the first mainstream 3.5-inch HDD to adopt a uniprocessor DSP design, integrating logic, flash memory, and a DSP core into a single unit. The T320C2xLP TI cDSP replaces five discrete devices, achieving cost savings compared to previous solutions, improving performance and reducing power consumption.

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