Touch user interfaces have made significant advances in the consumer electronics market particularly for mobile phones and notebook computers, opening the door for adoption in other applications including white goods, computer peripherals, medical equipment, and instrumentation. Synaptics made its debut in the home appliance market earlier this year with the launch of the Samsung Hauzen ZERO air conditioner.
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Smaller distributors were the only ones to post sales gains in 2009. Interestingly, two of the five distributors that posted growth last year -- Interstate Connecting Components and Sherburn Electronics -- derive 100 percent of their sales from interconnect products. Both of them also target the military/aerospace industry. Here are the top 10 sales leaders by ICs, passives/electromechanical devices, interconnects and computer products as well as sales growth.
Video processor reduces system cost, complexity, power and size
Houston, Tex. — Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has introduced the TMS320DM6467T, a DaVinci video processor aimed at the need for increased digital video quality, higher resolution and faster frame rates for video communications and security applications.
The 1-GHz DM6467T is a single-chip processor that enables networked digital video applications to decode high-definition (HD) H.264 (1080p at 60 frames per second. The processor also provides optimized imaging support and the advanced video processing capabilities required to support up to eight simultaneous channels of H.264 D1 real-time video encoding with a solution from a third party.
The DM6467T offers developers the ability to create multi-format video supporting multiple channels, superior compression technology and advanced processing capabilities such as analytics. It is also said to lower system cost while increasing system functionality and offering flexibility with a programmable on-chip digital signal processor (DSP).
The DM6467T combines 37 percent higher processing performance than the DM6467 with improved video coprocessors and higher speed peripherals for video surveillance, HD video conferencing, multi-format digital media adaptors, real-time digital video recorders (DVRs) and digital signage.
The DM6467T offers the combined performance of a 1 GHz C64x+(TM) DSP and 500 MHz ARM926EJ-S. The device features two integrated 500-MHz high definition video/imaging co-processors, a faster DDR2 interface at 400 MHz for more efficient video throughput, a faster 150-MHz video port interface to support 1080p capture/display, and a 66-MHz PCI bus for faster data transfer.
It is also hardware and software compatibility with the TMS320DM6467, announced in December 2007 for easier migration.
Availability: The TMS320DM6467T is now available for sampling.
Pricing: $106.95 in quantities of 1,000 units. The TMDXEVM6467T evaluation module (EVM) comes complete with software, tools and demonstration applications. Board support software includes an Open Source Linux git, DSP/BIOS Link and frameworks for audio/video and codec engines. The DM6467T EVM is priced at $1,995 and is software and hardware compatible with the DM6467 processor and EVM. TI will also offer a TMDXSDV6467T daughtercard for backward display compatibility with the DM6467 evaluation module, which will be sold separately.
Resources: Datasheet and TMDXEVM6467T tool folder.
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