Texas Instruments Announces Early Shipments of TABLE-TOP DLP Component Sets

19-Nov-01

Texas Instruments (TI, NYSE: TXN) announced that it was shipping samples of its TABLE-TOP DLPô component set family to strategic customers worldwide, providing further evidence that TI is successfully positioning DLP technology to become the pervasive home entertainment display technology of the future. The shipments are being made earlier than TI's original commitment. The new component family is designed for TV manufacturers who are developing a new generation of large-screen, table-top TVs. It supports ATSC high definition formats, as well as the DVB digital television standard, using either a 0.8-inch or 0.6-inch native widescreen DMDô (Digital Micromirror Deviceô). The component set enables the development of televisions featuring clear, sharp images combined with affordable pricing and stylish design. ""These new component sets deliver significant benefits to our TV manufacturer customers,"" said John Reder, Tabletop Home Entertainment Business Unit Manager at TI's DLP Products division. ""With substantially reduced cost allied to improved image quality, they represent a significant step on our road towards DLP technology becoming not only the image quality leader, but also the cost and performance leader for the development of leading-edge home entertainment products."" System cost reduction was the driving engine in developing the second-generation component set from TI. The component set is the essential ingredient in achieving mainstream price points of $3,000 and below. The new DDP1010 ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) integrates the functionality of several ICs and reduces the number of required ASICs from two to one; it also reduces the amount of external memories twelve-fold. The DDP1010 incorporates TI's latest DLP technology video and graphics processing algorithms, an integrated system micro-controller and a rich-media port that supports bit-mapped OSD and alpha blending. A new DAD1000 Waveform Generator eliminates 61 discrete components that were required by the first-generation component set. A number of enhancements have been incorporated to elevate the performance level of DLP products to even higher levels. Included in the component set is a new version of the Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) that incorporates a 12-degree mirror tilt-angle, delivering higher brightness and improved contrast. Also provided is a new high speed LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) interface to the DMD, which both simplifies EMI (Electro Magnetic Interference) management for the manufacturer as well as improving image quality. ""Our focus is on developing a complete, integrated electronics solution which makes DLP technology even more attractive to existing and prospective TV manufacturer customers,"" said Adam Kunzman, DLP Home Entertainment Development Manager at TI's DLP Products Division. ""We're making it both easier and less expensive to incorporate DLP technology into new generations of products, while continuing to improve subsystem performance. We believe that we are further establishing DLP technology as the performance and value benchmark."" Also included in the TABLE-TOP DLP component set are the SH6742 motor spindle drive ASIC and TMS57128 Advanced Multimedia Display Processor (AMDP). The SH6742 incorporates SilentSpin technology for super quiet color wheel motor drive operation. Dual video channel processing and support of a number of PIP and double-window special modes are provided by the AMDP2 through customer-programmed, high performance, motion-adaptive interlace-to-progressive scan conversion, scaling and video enhancement algorithms. For more information about DLP, visit www.dlp.com.

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