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HOUSTON, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ --

    WHAT:        Continuing to help customers develop innovative applications,
                 Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:  TXN) will display
                 its latest technologies through informative and engaging
                 training classes, demos and lectures at the Embedded Systems
                 Conference Boston 2009.

    WHEN:        Sept. 21 - 24, 2009

    WHERE:       Hynes Convention Center
                 900 Boylston Street
                 Boston, MA 02115

    HIGHLIGHTS:  BeagleBoard experts will hold four sessions on Sept. 22 in
                 room 200:
                  -- 12:30 p.m. -  BeagleBoard 101 Workshop
                  -- 2:45 p.m. -  Run Android on your BeagleBoard
                  -- 4:15 p.m. - Embedded Streaming Media with GStreamer
                  -- 5:45 p.m. -  Introduction to 2D/3D Graphics Development
                     with OpenGL(R) ES on the BeagleBoard
                  -- 7:00 p.m. - BeagleBoard enthusiasts Users Group meeting

                 Energy harvesting lecture: "Implementation of Autonomous
                 Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Application," by TI's
                 Adrian Valenzuela
                  -- 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 22 (ESC Theater)

                 TMS320C5000(TM) eZdsp USB stick makes development easier and
                 more affordable, all while simplifying DSP programming. Based
                 on the TMS320VC5505 processor, it's the industry's lowest-
                 cost DSP development tool and is ideal for customers,
                 students and hobbyists looking for an affordable tool to
                 develop various portable applications.
                  -- 1:15 p.m. on Sept. 23 (room 204)

                 Medical Development Kits are the industry's first medical
                 development tool sets with a complete signal chain and
                 software/algorithm offering for multiple medical
                 applications. Based on the C5505 processor, the kits provide
                 high processing performance at very low power for ECG,
                 digital stethoscopes and pulse oximetry.
                  -- 3:00 p.m. on Sept. 23 (room 204)

                 Medical Systems: Trends and Opportunities will be held at
                 3:00 p.m. on Sept. 22 in the ESC Theater and will feature
                 entrepreneurs, researchers and electronic technologists to
                 look at current trends in medical electronics from a
                 political, business and technological point of view.
                 Participants include:
                  -- TI's medical marketing director Steven Dean
                  -- Charles Sodini, professor of electrical engineering,
                     Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                  -- Mir Imran, chairman and CEO, InCube Laboratories
                  -- Steve Ohr, research director, Gartner Dataquest
                  -- Newton de Faria, business development manager, National
                     Instruments

                 Build an Embedded Web Server using the Stellaris(R) LM3S8962
                 Evaluation Kit by Dan Nakoneczny will demonstrate the
                 Stellaris LM3S8962 Evaluation Kit with IAR Embedded Workbench
                 tools to set up embedded Web solutions for a remote control
                 application.
                  -- 3:00 p.m. on Sept. 22 (room 205)

    DEMOS:       TI experts will demonstrate a variety of embedded processing
                 solutions at the show, such as:
                  -- TI's solar energy harvesting kit, which converts ambient
                     light into power for industrial, transportation,
                     agricultural and commercial applications.
                  -- AdaptivEnergy's Joule-Thief(TM) wireless, remote sensing
                     solution based on AdaptivEnergy's Ruggedized Laminated
                     Piezo (RLP(R)) technology, which enables compact energy
                     harvesting modules to power applications such as wireless
                     sensors.
                  -- Micropelt's TE-Power NODE, thermo-powered wireless
                     sensing system, which takes a few degrees of temperature
                     differential and harvests the thermal energy to operate
                     the wireless sensor node, enabling unlimited battery-free
                     operation.
                  -- Stellaris Evaluation Kits, which function as both an
                     evaluation platform and as a serial in-circuit debug
                     interface.  The kits provide a low cost, effective means
                     of evaluating Stellaris MCUs.

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