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TI debuts SiGe process
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24/11/2006
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Texas Instruments’ Freising facility has developed a new bipolar SiGe process technology that underpins its latest analogue product offerings.
Called BiCom3HV, the process is said to focus TI’s manufacturing technology on the future needs of high voltage industrial applications. The process offers high speeds with low noise and much smaller packaging than previously available.
According to Gregg Lowe, senior vice president, analogue, BiCom3HV is the first 36V industrial process to use SiGe. The process also uses silicon on insulator technology to produce smaller transistors. TI claims the minimum npn transistor is up to 11 times smaller than those available from competitive processes.
Two op amps have been built on the process – the OPA 211 and 827. “Both products are aimed at precision industrial markets,” said Lowe. “The next generation process technology enables lower power consumption and
smaller size.”
The OPA 827 is a jfet op amp with an 18MHz bandwidth, whilst the bipolar input OPA211 is a gain product bandwidth of 80MHz.
Meanwhile, TI Fellow Gene Frantz announced four dsp only additions to the DaVinci processor range. The processors are tuned for specific markets, including automotive vision, video security and video telephony.
All four processors feature the TMS320C64x+ core and operate between 300 and 600MHz. The C64x+ core provides a 20% cycle improvement and a reduction of up to 30% in code size compared to the previous generation TMS320C64x dsp core.
According to Frantz: “All markets needs adequate performance, low cost, low power consumption with a good roadmap. As we looked at new market opportunities, all had something to do with video or imaging, so we put together a platform that allows people to innovate without investing in technology.”
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Graham Pitcher
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