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The power of DSP puts unprecedented capability in the hands
of engineers, businesses and consumers
Texas Instruments, the global leader in semiconductor technology
provides cutting edge DSP and analog solutions to meet customer's
real-world Signal Processing requirements. Headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, TI manufactures and sells semiconductors in
more than 25 countries worldwide.
As more and more real world interfaces and functions get digitized,
technology is becoming increasingly DSP-cum-analog centric
as against microprocessor centric. As a result of this process,
Indian universities are increasingly working with TI DSPs to
equip themselves and their graduates with the skills required
to undertake research and development in the changing technology
environment. TI India's university program supports them in
this process via the UniTI initiative.
UniTI stands for "Universities and TI". UniTI is a mutually
beneficial relationship between academia and industry in the
field of digital signal processing, and is the forum in which
TI India interacts with universities and interested technical
institutions in the role of a facilitator.
Texas Instruments India works with universities to achieve
multiple objectives
- Promotion of TI company image amongst faculty and students
on campus
- Seeding of TI technology skills amongst large numbers of
future technology industry engineers
- Support of faculty / research staff in the outsourcing
of industry R&D to universities on TI platforms
- Support of campus product incubators that are building
innovative products on TI platforms
TI views its engagement with each university as a win-win
relationship for the institute, faculty, research staff, students
and TI. Although TI directly is able to engage just a few universities
in India, via its university distributor and partners in India
TI extends its reach to potentially all engineering institutes
in the country, and offers all the elements that are required
to successfully set up TI-DSP based education programs in any
engineering institution.
TI's university program in India, in terms of its 500+ operational
TI DSP labs (Mar 2006) at over 450 Indian engineering institutions,
is TI's largest university program worldwide.
University Distributor in India
 Cranes
Software is Texas Instruments' university distributor
in India, with a distinct delivery model specifically designed
to meet educational and training needs across the country.
Cranes has setup over 450 TI DSP labs at universities in
India, works with several state education committees in defining
DSP syllabi, annually conducts over 300 small and large TI
DSP workshops in India, and annually trains over 2000 faculty,
researchers and technology industry professionals on TI DSP
technologies.
Cranes provides universities with:
- Pre-sales guidance
- Sales
- Installation
- Training workshops
- Technical support
- Teaching products
- Course structure definitions related to TI DSPs
To get in touch with Cranes for either university labs or
industry training workshops, send an email to tisales@cranessoftware.com or
call +91-80-25352636/37.
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University Third Parties
TI's has several third parties in India, some of whom provide
TI-DSP-based products and services to engineering schools in
India. These partners include:
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my.TI
This is an essential registration (at no charge) to avail
a variety of free TI services/information
- Register
now on my.TI – Store your ID and password for
future access to TI samples, support, training, etc. services.
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MSP430, High Performance Analog and VLSI Design Education
at Universities
From 2005-06, TI has been actively promoting MSP430, High
Performance Analog and VLSI Design education at universities
in India.
TI's university distributor in India, Cranes
Software will also be the university distributor for
MSP430 and High Performance Analog tools to Indian universities.
For sales enquiries, email to tisales@cranessoftware.com.
TI is actively working with state universities across India
to strengthen the VLSI (Digital and Mixed Signal) Design ciricculum
available to faculty and students across a large number of
engineering colleges. This effort is being undertaken through
select channels to achieve a goal of 10,000 annual VLSI-specialized
graduates and 2,000 experienced VLSI faculty in India by 2008.
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TI Design Contests
TI annually conducts a DSP design contest across all engineering
colleges in India. Students are required to register for the
contest at the start of the year. Complete designs submitted
to TI are evaluated on the basis of innovation, technical completeness,
business applicability and quality of submission. The winning
teams receive financial awards and the winning team presents
its design to the full audience at the TI
India Developer Conference at the end of the year.
TI-Facilitated Intra-School Design Contests
From 2006 TI is also facilitating design contests open to
students within each engineering college in India for projects
undertaken on TI DSP, MSP430 and HPA silicon, and for projects
in VLSI design. These contests will be facilitated only at
colleges providing corresponding classroom/lab training in
these areas. TI's university distributor in India Cranes Software
(contact tisales@cranessoftware.com)
will handle the distribution of the TI-facilitated design contest
certificates to faculty at engineering colleges that provide
the relevant training. The contest organization, entry evaluation,
winning project selection and award of certificates will be
conducted by the faculty of each college as an internal activity.
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Tools / Components / Guides / Training
Resources
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Support
For online
support and phone technical support on TI’s Catalog products
Dedicated deep
email-based technical support is available for elite universities
and for universities that have purchased tools from Cranes
Software (TI India's university distributor).
Support Notes:
- TI's product support services will provide references to
documents which need to be read to resolve specific issues.
Some time and effort will need to be invested to study these
documents.
- Please keep in mind that remote support may not be able
to debug a custom-built solution, i.e. TI support is specifically
designed to aid with the use of TI products in a system.
- If the project requiring support is a high volume industry
project involving TI silicon, TI may be able to provide an
enhanced level support. In such a case, please write
to TI with project details.
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Elite Universities
- Limited number per geographic region
- Elite classification is based on subjective factors, e.g.
brand, relationship, DSP focus, funding, industry network,
etc.
- Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Mumbai
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Chennai
- Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur
- Indian Institute of
Technology, Delhi
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur
- Indian Institute of Technology,
Guwahati
- Indian Institute of Information
Technology, Bangalore
- Birla Institute
of Technology & Science, Pilani
- Birla Institute of
Technology, Mesra
- National Institute of
Technology, Calicut
- National Institute of
Technology, Karnataka
- National Institute of Technology,
Tiruchirappalli
- Dhirubhai Ambani Institute
of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar
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University Program Contacts at TI India
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UniTI Newsletter
Forging relations between India Universities and Texas Instruments
Download UniTI Newsletter
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TI India Analog Design Contest 2009
To encourage system-level design at the undergraduate level of engineering education, Texas Instruments has announced a design contest, which is now open to Indian Universities. Five universities will be selected from India for participation in the contest, which will take place in two rounds. In round one, teams from within each university compete for a $1,500 prize (to be split among team members). The winning team from each school will then be entered in the second round, called the Engibous Prize Contest. This contest has a first-place prize of $10,000, second place $7,500, and third place $5,000, each to be split among team members.
You can download the detailed brochure about Analog Design Contest from here.
You can download a poster about Analog Design Contest from here.
Important Dates:
Phase 1
The letter of intent, along with proposals, must be received no later than July 31, 2009. You can download the suggested format for the letter of intent here.
Shortlisted colleges will be intimated by August 20, 2009.
Phase 2
Final submissions by Nov 1, 2009. Download a format of the covering letter by faculty member here. Download a format of the covering letter by Principal here.
Awards will be notified by 1Q, 2010.
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