2011 performance

Results

• The coveted 2011 NASSCOM Innovation Award in the “Social Innovation: Market Facing” category for its partnership with India’s Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) to develop a reference design for solar LED lanterns and charging stations.
• The MSP430FR57XX FRAM series of microcontrollers was named “Best Technology Development of Energy Harvesting.”

• Unveiled a new C2000™ Piccolo™ microcontroller that improves the quality and clarity of power line communication globally.
• Released a new solution that uses solar energy – a free power source that produces no environmental impact – to transmit information and power from various smart-grid-connected applications to the power grid itself.
• Introduced a new G3-PLC Alliance-compliant software protocol that will support multiple power line standards and design schemes using a single platform. This allows power lines to communicate more efficiently and affordably.
• Released the LM3466, which provides a constant current power supply to a grouping of LEDs, such as those used in warehouse and street lighting fixtures. As a result, the overall brightness of the lighting system can be maintained even if some LED strings are damaged and need to be disabled during operation.
• Enabled one customer to create a new LED light bulb that requires 7 watts, yields more than 400 lumens of light, and can last for 25 years.
• Introduced the industry's first fully integrated battery protection and cell-balancing solution for lithium-ion and lithium-iron phosphate battery packs. The bq77910 device simplifies battery-pack designs for e-bikes, e-scooters, portable gardening tools, power tools and uninterruptible power supplies, and can also be used when replacing lead-acid batteries.

• Announced the world’s first color graphing calculator, the TI-Nspire™ CX. It is the lightest, thinnest and brightest graphing calculator available on the market today. It also contains rechargeable batteries, extending its power and eliminating the need for single-use batteries.

• Completed the first year of innovating at our Motor Lab and assessed whether the pumps TI uses in its own fabs were the most efficient.
• Released a new sensorless motor control technology, the InstaSPIN™ BLDC solution, which gets our customers’ motors up and running within seconds.
• Continued collaborating with predominant universities, such as Texas A&M and the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium, to conduct motor research.

• Named the title sponsor of the 2011 Bluetooth® Innovation World Cup, an initiative aimed at finding new ideas for applications and products using Bluetooth® low energy technology in sports and fitness, health care, and home information and control.

• Enabled Christie Medical Holdings, Inc. to release its proprietary VeinViewer Flex handheld medical technology.
• Enabled CNOGA to develop a noninvasive device, the TensorTip vital signs monitor, which allows pain-free monitoring of blood glucose levels in tissue capillaries. This eliminates the pain, inconvenience and cost of daily glucose monitoring in diabetics. This solution is a first of its kind to be commercialized.
• Helped Perpetua create Flexible Thermoelectric Film, which are armband devices that use body heat to wirelessly send physiological data to a physician’s computer.

• Launched DLP® LightCrafter™, an advanced design platform that will allow product designers to build 3-D fingerprint scanners and other biometric products.
• Enabled GFMesstechnik to release its ShapeScan 3-D OEM sensor, which takes accurate 3-D measurements.

Looking ahead

• Expand our portfolio in utility metering, home and building automation, and smart grid infrastructure technology.
• Release four new system solutions for smart grid and metering applications, enabling designers to further accelerate time to market for power line communication-based and low-power wireless products.
• Continue developing intelligent LED systems that save energy, costs and enable new functionality.