III. Writing exercises:

Exercise 1. Complete the sentences with the suggested words:

chain; only; those; previous; and.

In _______ generations, the industry migrated up the value _______ by manufacturing watches, videogames _______ calculators, _______ to realize that it should not have been in _______ businesses.

Exercise 2. Fill in the table with words and expressions from the text:

	parts	systems	processes
Example: the industry is looking to			the personal consumer electronics market as the high-volume engine.
the wireless communication market is in
the platforms-say, for handsets-would be
platforms would be

Exercise 3. Compose a story on one of the topics (up to 100 words):

“Consumer Electronics”

“Semiconductor Manufacturers”

“Platforms”

Lesson 6

Read the text: Imaging Systems

The processing power required to enable real-time image processing is significant. Processors must have the capability to perform real-time compression / decompression, target-image recognition, digital map overlays and rotations, array processing and radar image preprocessing. For high performance imaging designs, Texas Instruments offers the SMJ320C6201B Fixed-Point Digital Signal Processor (DSP). This device is the highest performance military programmable DSP achieving 1200 MIPS (Million Fixed-Point Instructions Per Second) at 150 MHz operation over an extended temperature range of -55 to +115°C (W-temp). TI offers this DSP packaged in a 27 x 27 mm Ceramic Dimpled Ball Grid (CBGA).

Texas Instruments Military Semiconductors also offers the highest performance general-purpose image processor available to the military market today. The single chip SMJ320C80 Multimedia Video Processor (MVP) actually contains four Advanced-DSPs and a RISC processor. This single chip is able to perform more than 2 BILLION RISC-like operations per second, 250 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second), 400 M-Bytes per second I/O, 4-Giga Word Address reach all guaranteed over the military temperature range. An on-chip, 32-bit RISC master processor orchestrates the four parallel, 32-bit DSP symphony.

To round out your system design, choose from TI's wide array of leadership Mixed-Signal, military ASIC, and Advanced Logic products. Video palettes (RAMDACs), LCD drivers, low-voltage products and advanced bus functions from EIA-485 to the new IEEE 1394 High Performance Serial Bus provide the broad range of flexibility for designers of state-of-the-art military imaging systems.

Texas Instruments Incorporated is the world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age. TI is a leader in the real-time technologies that help people communicate. We are moving fast to drive the Internet age forward with semiconductor solutions for large markets such as wireless and broadband access and for new emerging markets such as digital cameras and digital audio. TI envisions a world where every phone call, every Internet connection, every photograph you take, every song you listen to are touched by the power of TI's Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and Analog technologies. That dream is coming true. TI is making it happen right now.