TI Reaches Out to Home Gateway, CE Manufacturers
Online staff -- EDN, March 1, 2006
In a demonstration of what Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) says is its commitment to helping residential gateway (RG) and consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers get to market quickly with innovative products, the company has broadened the scope of its third party network to include capabilities and offerings specific to the RG and embedded systems markets.
“TI’s residential gateway and consumer electronics customers are constantly looking for ways to shorten development time and deliver unique, new products to market quickly, and TI’s growing third party network has proven very successful at enabling them to accomplish this to provide broadband access to and throughout the digital home,” explained Ben Sheppard, customer and partner marketing manager for TI’s residential gateway and embedded systems group, in a statement.
“Our RG and embedded systems groups are working closely with these partner companies to help them deliver the support and solutions these manufacturers want in order to quickly and effectively leverage TI’s advanced signal processing solutions,” he added.
Companies building RG or CE products now have access to existing TI third party network members Ittiam, Softier and eSOL for system integration, hardware and software differentiation on TI’s RGES platforms. These members join previously announced third parties Ashley Laurent for RG software and Litepoint Corporation for WLAN testing equipment, as well as a new member, AwoX, a provider of home networking middleware and applications software, also announced today.
“OEMs and ODMs continue to look to our partners to help them quickly leverage TI’s advanced signal processing-based silicon and software platforms to deliver unique, innovative products to the market. Now, RG and CE manufacturers also benefit from this vast network,” said Jennifer Skinner-Gray of TI’s worldwide DSP partner network.
The 2006 TI Developer Conference is being held this week in Dallas.
