Cutting Edge Graphics Cards

Texas Instruments / Nice, France / Bedford, UK

Texas Instruments had a vested interest in ensuring that their new graphics technology products were competitive in the interactive business arena.

Challenges

I was brought in to work directly with Texas Instruments development teams. In 1983 I worked at their Research & Development Center in Rennes and Nice, France.

A year later I exercised the performance capabilities of their E-3500 graphic chipset at TI's advanced development facility in Bedford, England.

Solutions

I worked directly with the technology research teams to develop a set of rudimentary graphical design tools with which to design screens that demonstrated the design capabilitiesof Texas Instrument's new graphical chipsets:

• Logos
• Color Range
• Control Panel
• Publishing

Texas Instruments wanted some "proof of concept" models that could show how the chipset might display complex control panels, though there was also an interest in print-quality graphics and animation.