ABOUT TI INDIA

Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd.
(Web: http://www.ti.com/in)

Texas Instruments India Private Limited (TI India) started its operations in Bangalore in August 1985 as a strategic move to enhance Texas Instruments' presence in the Asia Pacific region.

The initial activity of TI India was to develop and support TI's proprietary Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software systems used for integrated circuit (IC) design by TI's semiconductor design centers worldwide. This activity involved development of applications for creating, simulating, testing and verifying both logical and physical IC manufacturing process.

In 1988, a design center for Mixed-Signal ICs was established at TI India as an extension to TI's existing mixed-signal design activities worldwide. Following the successful launch of the Mixed-signal IC design center, design activities supporting TI's application specific products was established in the late 1990s. In 1995, TI India started a design center for designing Digital Signal Processing (DSP) cores for applications in Hard Disk Drives.

In March 1998, the company announced the launch of the first DSP designed entirely in TI India by Indian engineers. In the same year, TI India also announced the industry's first Programmable Resolution Analog to Digital Converter. In 1999, TI India announced the launch of xStream DSP Technology for high speed printer applications, and the world's first G.Lite Codec. In March 2000, TI India announced the launch of a DSP core optimized for motor control applications. In the same year, TI India also announced the launch of a family of mixed signal devices that support the emerging Digital Visual Interface (DVI) standard for high speed interfaces to high resolution digital displays.

In early 2001, TI India announced the opening of a center for design of 3G wireless chipsets and a center for developing Wireless LAN chipsets. In August 2004, TI India moved to its own Research & Development facility in Bangalore. The company's engineers work in areas such as VLSI design, embedded software and tools development.

TI India is active in promoting TI's third party program since early 2001 and has established relations with many Indian companies. These companies work under TI's third party global program. The program enables local companies to reach out to international customers through TI's marketing channels.

TI India started OMAP competency centers in March 2002 in association with leading companies in India to provide application platform design support to TI's global customers.

TI India has an extensive university relations program under which the company works with several leading universities. The company has set up Digital Signal Processor labs. Also, in association with a partner company, TI India has set up labs in various universities and colleges across India.

TI India Foundation, a voluntary organization comprising employees of TI India, is actively involved in environment, educational and safety related social activities in the community.

TI India Sales & Marketing has a network of distributors and product resellers in India.