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January 2012
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Seminar by Brad Ruzicka of Texas Instruments on the topic Its great to be an engineer! at Anna University College of Engineering. Guindy Details will become available on www.uniti.in (Event Calendar) after Jan 6, 2012 Two-day faculty development workshop on Low Power Embedded Systems using MSP430 Microcontroller at Texas Instruments, Bangalore(Jan 18-19, Bangalore) In collaboration with the Board of Studies, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka, TI India University Program and Cranes Software Int. Ltd will jointly host a Faculty Develop workshop on MSP430 microcontrollers. This Faculty Development Program will be useful to teachers who will teach a course on Microcontrollers, based on MSP430. Teachers from the region will be given priority. Please check the Event Calendar at www.uniti.in for details of registration.
Two-day faculty development workshop on Low Power Embedded Systems using MSP430 Microcontroller at SIT, Mangalore(Jan 23-24, Mangalore) Srinivas Institute of Technology, Mangalore will host a two-day workshop on MSP430 microcontrollers, in collaboration with TI India University Program and Cranes Software International Ltd. This Faculty Development Program will be useful to teachers who will teach a course on Microcontrollers, based on MSP430. Teachers from the region will be given priority. More details of this event are available on www.uniti.in (See the Event calendar).
Seminar on Wireless Health and one-day workshop on Low Power Embedded Systems using MSP430 Microcontroller at BESU, Kolkata(Jan 27, Kolkata) In cooperation with TI India University Program and Cranes Software Int. Ltd., Bengal Engineering and Science University will host a seminar on Wireless Health by Gene Frantz, Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments, and a one-day workshop on MSP430 microcontrollers. The workshop is intended exclusively for students and faculty from Indian academic institutions. Please check the Event Calendar at www.uniti.in for details of registration.
Seminar on Wireless Health and one-day workshop on Low Power Embedded Systems using MSP430 Microcontroller at IIT, Kharagpur(Jan 28, Kharagpur) In cooperation with TI India University Program and Cranes Software Int. Ltd., Kshitij 2012 (IIT Kharagpur) will host a seminar on Wireless Health by Gene Frantz, Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments and a one-day workshop on MSP430 microcontrollers. The seminar by Gene Frantz is open to everyone, but the MSP430 workshop will be restricted to 60 participants. Please check the Event Calendar at www.uniti.in for details of registration. Seminar on How TI IC Technology impacts Cloud Computing by Gene Frantz (Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments) at IIT Delhi (Jan 30, 2012) at IIT Delhi) Details will be available on www.uniti.in (Event Calendar) after Jan 15, 2012 Two-day workshop on ARM Development Platforms from Texas Instruments at NSIT, Delhi (Jan 29-30) In cooperation with TI India University Program and Cranes Software Int. Ltd., NSIT (Delhi) will host a two-day workshop on ARM based embedded processors from Texas Instruments (Jan 2930, 2012). Gene Frantz of Texas Instruments will be a speaker at the event. Please check the Event Calendar at www.uniti.in after Jan 6 for details of registration.
Workshop on TIs Embedded Processor Platforms at CDAC, Noida (Jan 30, 2012) Speakers include Gene Frantz, C.P. Ravikumar, Anuj Verma from Texas Instruments. More details will become available on www.uniti.in (Event Calendar) after Jan 15, 2012.
Workshop on Android on TI Platforms at CDAC, Bangalore( Jan 31-Feb 3, Bangalore) In collaboration with TI India University Program, IEEE Bangalore and IEEE Circuits and Systems Bangalore Chapter, CDAC Bangalore will host a workshop on Android. Experts from Texas Instruments (India), CDAC, DigiKraft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. will conduct the lectures and hands-on sessions. This event is open to professionals, teachers, and students. More details of this event are available on www.uniti.in (See the Event calendar).
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Rewrite the table below after matching the entries in Columns A, B, C, and D. Column A Column B Column C Column D Piccolo 80 MHz 1 MB flash High-end Drives Concerto 150 MHz 512 kB flash Electric Vehicles Delfino 300 MHz 256 kB flash E-metering Which processors are integrated in the Concerto multicore architecture? a. Two C28x CPUs b. Two Cortex-M3 CPUs c. A C28x CPU and an ARM Cortex-M3 d. A C28x CPU and an MSP430 CPU Which of the following statements are true for controlSUITE? a. We can use controlSUITE to find example projects carried out on C2000 platforms b. Installing controlSUITE on your PC will also install Code Composer Studio c. controlSUITE must be reinstalled periodically so that we get access to updates d. controlSUITE applies to all microcontrollers from Texas Instruments Power Line Communication refers to a. transmission of power on communication lines b. transmission of messages over power lines c. both (a) and (b) d. neither (a) nor (b) In which C2000 sub-family will you be able to find support for Ethernet MAC? a. Piccolo b. Delfino c. Concerto d. All of the above
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Recently, Google and Samsung officially unveiled the Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Which TI embedded processor provided high performance for the operating system? (b) OMAP 4
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A Memory Protection Unit (MPU) present in TIs ARM-based processors is intended for which of the following tasks? (b) Ensure that access priveleges are properly implemented at run-time
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Hardware redundancy through two CPUs which operate in lock-step CRC for peripheral/network communication Error correction in on-chip flash memories and SRAM All these safety features are built into which of the following microcontrollers from Texas Instruments? (c) Hercules Cortex-R4
faculty from IIT madras and experts from TI India. The admissions will be based on the performance in GATE examination, a written test and an interview. Interested? See http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/vlsi/tiiprogram/start for more details!
STEPS (Coimbatore) can conduct two-day student workshops on MSP430 launchpad please contact N. Kavitha (skt@stepsmail.com) for details.
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C.P. Ravikumar, Director, University Relations, Texas Instruments (India), Bagmane Tech Park, CV Raman Nagar, Bangalore, 560093, +91 80 25099727, ravikumar@ti.com