Streamlining Semiconductor Documentation Process at Texas Instruments with Corel DESIGNER
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Event-Driven Application
Applicable Industries
- Electronics
- Equipment & Machinery
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Virtual Training
Services
- System Integration
- Training
About The Customer
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is a world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age. With more than 35,000 employees worldwide, it is a leader in the real-time technologies that help people communicate. Terry Hayes is the Application Specific Products Publication Manager for one of the Technical Information Solutions teams at TI. His team is responsible for creating the documentation that supports the company's custom semiconductor product lines. The Technical Information Systems (TIS) organization includes four additional teams that produce a wide variety of documentation including product data sheets, user manuals, programming guides, application reports, and technical reference manuals.
The Challenge
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), a global leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, faced a significant challenge in its Technical Information Solutions (TIS) department. The TIS team, responsible for creating documentation supporting the company's custom semiconductor product lines, needed a tool that could seamlessly integrate into their documentation workflow. They relied on an XML-based content management system to publish, version, and repurpose product documentation. The team received source graphics in various formats, including AutoCAD, Visio, and WMF, which needed to be converted for use in both print and web documents. The challenge was to find a software package that could easily edit and convert these graphics into the various file formats required for their publishing processes. Furthermore, the team was planning to standardize on a single file format, SVG, in the future. Therefore, the solution they chose had to support this powerful open standard graphics format.
The Solution
The TIS group at Texas Instruments selected Corel DESIGNER to address their documentation challenges. Corel DESIGNER was the ideal tool to meet their requirements as it could easily edit and convert graphics into the various file formats required for their publishing processes. It was also capable of importing a variety of graphic file formats, editing the graphics to bring them up to production standards, and then easily exporting the final files to EPS and GIF for print and web publishing. To support the TIS team's transition to Corel DESIGNER, Corel offered online product webinars and sent members of its professional services group to provide on-site support and training for Texas Instruments employees. The software also supported the SVG format, which the team planned to standardize on in the future.
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