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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 September 2001
Graychip acquisition adds to TI
mixed-signal line
Texas Instruments has added a new category to its high-performance analogue and mixed-signal portfolio with the purchase of Graychip.
Texas Instruments has added a new category to its high-performance analogue and mixed-signal portfolio with the purchase of Graychip, the technology leader in reconfigurable digital down convertors (DDCs) and digital up convertors (DUCs) for high-speed communications Graychip's programmable digital converters provide the highest speed and flexibility as well as the industry's lowest power consumption
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Graychip's DDC and DUC chips are used in a variety of high-speed signal processing applications, including digital radio, wireless basestations, point-to-point microwave communications, broadband wireless access, cable modem head-ends, digital video and digital video distribution systems.
Graychip's products also support multi-cellular standards, including the industry's only 3G W-CDMA solution.
"This adds another link in the total signal processing chain that TI offers to customers.
Graychip's in-depth systems knowledge in the high-speed signal processing domain, coupled with their strong portfolio of digital convertors, provides complementary capabilities to TI's data convertors and DSPs", said Gregg Lowe, TI vice president, High-Performance Analog Communications Products.
Graychip President and CEO Joe Gray said, "I am very excited about the synergies of the two companies.
Graychip currently has over 100 customers worldwide, and combining our products with TI's strengths in high-performance analogue, DSP and their global support infrastructure will provide customers with an unmatched level of support".
Graychip's products provide the optimal combination of programmability, dynamic range, speed and processing power required for today's signal processing systems.
Specialising in high-speed CMOS signal processing chips for telecommunications, Graychip's product portfolio includes six digital down convertors, five digital up convertors and a three-chip QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) modem chipset.
The latest additions to the company's portfolio include the GC4016 digital receiver and the GC4116 digital transmitter chips, which are ideally suited for multistandard software-defined radio.
The GC4016 is the first commercially available four-channel digital down convertor chip that offers the true 5MHz output bandwidth mode required for 3G W-CDMA systems.
Clocking at up to 100MHz, the multistandard GC4016 receiver chip can support all cellular formats including GSM, EDGE, IS-136, IS-95, CDMA2000-1x, UMTS and CDMA2000-3x.
The GC4116 is Graychip's latest four-channel digital up converter chip.
It is the first commercially available digital transmitter chip that provides two independent 3G W-CDMA channels.
The transmitter chip clocks at up to 106MHz and is the ideal counterpart to the GC4016 as it handles the same cellular standards.
Graychip is a privately held company based in Palo Alto, with 14 employees.
The company will become part of TI's High-Performance Analog organisation and continue to operate from Palo Alto.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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