Texas Instruments showcases innovative technologies in embedded processing focusing on medical, energy harvesting and multimedia applications at ESC Boston 2009

Texas Instruments showcases innovative technologies in embedded processing focusing on medical, energy harvesting and multimedia applications at ESC Boston 2009

WHAT: Continuing to help customers develop innovative applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) will display its latest technologies through informative and engaging training classes, demos and lectures at the Embedded Systems Conference Boston 2009.

WHEN: Sept. 21 – 24, 2009

WHERE: Hynes Convention Center

900 Boylston Street

Boston, MA 02115

HIGHLIGHTS: BeagleBoard experts will hold four sessions on Sept. 22 in room 200:

• 12:30 p.m. – BeagleBoard 101 Workshop

• 2:45 p.m. – Run Android on your BeagleBoard

• 4:15 p.m. – Embedded Streaming Media with GStreamer

• 5:45 p.m. – Introduction to 2D/3D Graphics Development with OpenGL® ES on the BeagleBoard

• 7:00 p.m.– BeagleBoard enthusiasts Users Group meeting

Energy harvesting lecture: “Implementation of Autonomous Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Application,” by TI’s Adrian Valenzuela

• 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 22 (ESC Theater)

TMS320C5000™ eZdsp USB stick makes development easier and more affordable, all while simplifying DSP programming. Based on the TMS320VC5505 processor, it’s the industry’s lowest-cost DSP development tool and is ideal for customers, students and hobbyists looking for an affordable tool to develop various portable applications.

• 1:15 p.m. on Sept. 23 (room 204)

Medical Development Kits are the industry’s first medical development tool sets with a complete signal chain and software/algorithm offering for multiple medical applications. Based on the C5505 processor, the kits provide high processing performance at very low power for ECG, digital stethoscopes and pulse oximetry.

• 3:00 p.m. on Sept. 23 (room 204)

Medical Systems: Trends and Opportunities will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sept. 22 in the ESC Theater and will feature entrepreneurs, researchers and electronic technologists to look at current trends in medical electronics from a political, business and technological point of view. Participants include:

• TI’s medical marketing director Steven Dean

• Charles Sodini, professor of electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Mir Imran, chairman and CEO, InCube Laboratories

• Steve Ohr, research director, Gartner Dataquest

• Newton de Faria, business development manager, National Instruments

Build an Embedded Web Server using the Stellaris® LM3S8962 Evaluation Kit by Dan Nakoneczny will demonstrate the Stellaris LM3S8962 Evaluation Kit with IAR Embedded Workbench tools to set up embedded Web solutions for a remote control application.

• 3:00 p.m. on Sept. 22 (room 205)

DEMOS: TI experts will demonstrate a variety of embedded processing solutions at the show, such as:

• TI’s solar energy harvesting kit, which converts ambient light into power for industrial, transportation, agricultural and commercial applications.

• AdaptivEnergy’s Joule-Thief™ wireless, remote sensing solution based on AdaptivEnergy's Ruggedized Laminated Piezo (RLP®) technology, which enables compact energy harvesting modules to power applications such as wireless sensors.

• Micropelt’s TE-Power NODE, thermo-powered wireless sensing system, which takes a few degrees of temperature differential and harvests the thermal energy to operate the wireless sensor node, enabling unlimited battery-free operation.

• Stellaris Evaluation Kits, which function as both an evaluation platform and as a serial in-circuit debug interface. The kits provide a low cost, effective means of evaluating Stellaris MCUs.

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