Texas Instruments Incorporated (OSADL Bronze Member)

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is a global semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA, but with design, sales and manufacturing operations in more than 30 countries. TI is known for providing innovative semiconductor technologies to help its customers create the world's most advanced electronics. With more than 25,000 TI employees worldwide, the company generated $12.5B (US) in 2008. TI has 25 years experience in Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) and 50 years experience in analog technology.

TI’s broad portfolio of analog and embedded processing products includes ARM^®-based processors such as Stellaris^® Cortex-M3™, Sitara™ family of ARM9™ and Cortex-A8 processor-based microprocessors, DaVinci™ video processors, OMAP™ mobile applications processors, DSPs and microcontrollers (MCUs).

To support this spectrum of products, TI has a broad ecosystem of both software and hardware tools, a wide third-party network and a strong background in Open Source activities. TI’s activity in the Open Source arena can be seen by the adoption of the community of the Beagle Board, an ultra-low cost, high performance, low power OMAP 3 based platform designed by BeagleBoard.org community members. This tool has the entire functionality of a PC - including full video and audio capabilities - and is well supported by a number of standard Linux distributions. This support makes it possible to use the Beagle Board as an Open Source self-hosted development system for embedded devices; it's rapid prototyping at its best!

TI is continuing to invest in the analog and embedded processing markets and is committed to developing technologies that help customers deliver consumer and industrial electronics products with greater performance, increased power efficiency, higher precision, more mobility and better quality.

With its OSADL membership, TI is reinforcing its commitment to Open Source software and is presenting itself as a partner of the community. For more information, please visit opensource.ti.com.