High channel count and +/-16-V range combine to reduce board space by nearly 24 percent DALLAS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) today introduced six new digital-to-analog converters (DACs) available in 12-, 14- and 16-bit versions and with either SPI or parallel interface. The eight-channel DAC87x8 family features a typical power consumption in normal mode of 14.8 mW/channel, dropping to