Learn Design Benefits of x1 Low-Cost PCI Express from TI and Altera Experts During Online Seminar

Learn Design Benefits of x1 Low-Cost PCI Express from TI and Altera Experts During Online Seminar

April 10, 2006

    DALLAS, April 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Texas
Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and Altera
Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR), in association with EE Times,
invite engineers to register for a complementary online
seminar entitled, "Delivering Low-Cost PCI Express x1
Solutions for Your Needs."  The seminar will be
broadcast on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 9:00am PDT/Noon
EDT. It will provide a benefit overview of x1 low-cost PCI
Express and offer ideas for overcoming challenges in
high-speed PCI Express system development. 
  
    Participants can register for the event, at
http://cmpnetseminars.com/TSG/?K=CETI&Q=355 . 

    Who Should Attend and What Will They Learn?

    Attendees such as system architects, embedded systems
designers, FPGA developers, and engineering and technical
managers, will hear experts Jawaid Ahmad of TI and Stephen
Lim of Altera discuss:

    -- Challenges in implementing and designing high-speed
PCI Express 
       solutions
    -- How the joint TI and Altera x1 PCI Express solution
effectively 
       addresses these challenges
    -- XIO1100, the third-generation PCI Express spec 1.1
compliant x1 PHY 
       from TI
    -- The PCI Express intellectual property (IP) core from
Altera to meet 
       your system's requirements
    -- The lowest-cost FPGA family, Cyclone II from Altera

    The TI and Altera Joint x1 PCI Express Solution 

    In March, TI and Altera announced the availability of a
PCI-SIG-compliant solution that reduces the cost and
accelerates the development of PCI Express-based systems. 
Ideal for video cards, data acquisition, test and network
equipment, and various embedded applications, the robust,
easy-to-use offering includes TI's XIO1100 PCI Express x1
physical layer (PHY) chip, Altera's low-cost Cyclone(TM) II
FPGAs and PCI Express x1 MegaCore(R) intellectual property
(IP) function.  To learn more about the components of this
joint offering visit http://www.ti.com/pciexpressalterapr
and http://www.altera.com/cyclone2 .

    About the Presenters

    Jawaid Ahmad, strategic product manager for PCI Express
and Cardbus products within TI's Digital Interface Business
Unit, has almost 20 years semiconductor industry
experience.  Prior to joining TI, he held engineering,
marketing and management positions at Siliconix, Crystal
Semiconductor, Cirrus Logic, Winbond Electronics and
National Semiconductor.  Ahmad earned a bachelor of science
degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University,
a master of science in electrical engineering from the
University of Texas at El Paso and a master of business
administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

    As product line manager for Altera, Stephen Lim is
responsible for the product marketing and management of
low-cost products including the Cyclone series FPGAs.  Lim
has more than 10 years of experience working in the
storage, networking and semiconductor industries in various
engineering and marketing roles.  He earned bachelor of
science and master of science degrees in electrical
engineering and a master of business administration from
Cornell University.

    About Texas Instruments

    Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP
and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world
signal processing requirements. In addition to
Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors
& Controls, and Educational & Productivity
Solutions.  TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has
manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25
countries. 

    Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol TXN.  More information is located
on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com . 

    About Altera

    Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) is the world's
pioneer in system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions. 
Combining programmable logic technology with software tools,
intellectual property and technical services, Altera
provides high-value programmable solutions to over 14,000
customers worldwide. More information is available at
http://www.altera.com .

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 Altera, The Programmable Solutions Company, the stylized
Altera logo, specific device designations and all other
words that are identified as trademarks and/or service
marks are, unless noted otherwise, the trademarks and
service marks of Altera Corporation in the U.S. and other
countries.  All other product or service names are the
property of their respective holder.

    For more information, please contact:

     Maureen "Mo" Sepulveda
     Texas Instruments
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Heather Mills
     GolinHarris
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

SOURCE  Texas Instruments Incorporated