Texas Instruments (TI) says the latest additions to its TCS family of chipsets for mobile devices offer the industry's first hardware-based security features, thereby providing the capability for enhanced protection against viruses and improved security of m-commerce and financial transactions.

The new TCS2600, which targets “the rapidly emerging market for GPRS smartphones,” is a three-chip set based on the TI multicore OMAP730 smartphone processor, which combines TI's Class 12 GPRS modem processor along with an ARM926 general purpose processing core dedicated to applications processing.

Like other TI OMAP processors, the OMAP730 supports embedded Linux based operation, as well as the use of Microsoft's Smartphone and Pocket PC Phone Edition OSes, Symbian OS, and Palm OS.

The new chipset also includes the TI TWL3016 analog baseband processor and the TI TRF6151 direct conversion, quad-band single-chip RF transceiver. The TWL3016 is said to have power management and high-fidelity audio subsystem integrated on-chip, and the TRF6151's direct conversion technology integrates numerous external filtering devices, a VCO, and a voltage regulator.

 
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