Our power management products and digital signal controllers enable LED lights to operate almost anywhere, from a tiny backlight on a cell phone keypad to HDTVs and Jumbotron scoreboards at football stadiums. TI and our customers work with leading corporations to evaluate how new power management innovations can improve industrial lighting and save energy.

A low-power converter from TI enables portable devices such as a cell phone or PDA to apply a tiny single solar cell to maintain a full battery charge. Our microcontrollers allow portable products like blood pressure monitors, blood oxygen meters, security sensors and consumer products to run on batteries for years. As a result, TI customers can produce products that don’t require battery replacements and effectively reduce waste.

Public utilities are beginning to adopt electronic-based meterreading technology to reduce costs and offer consumers new services and energy-saving options. TI’s low-power microcontrollers help reduce energy consumption through electronic metering of gas, water and electricity. Replacing mechanical meters with fully electronic meters not only reduces wasted power from the meter itself but allows timeof- day billing and “load shedding” – switching off consumers’ heating and cooling units when they are not at home.

Driving Green Standards
We drive innovation and the development of industry power management standards by collaborating with top electrical engineering research universities and leading high-tech companies that are often also our customers. Together, we evaluate product performance and capacity to meet certain power requirements. TI is a member of several industry consortia, including The Green Grid, American Electronics Association, Semiconductor Industry Association, European American Business Council, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. We actively participate in working groups, standards committees and other initiatives that aim to advance energy efficiency within the industry and related business sectors.