Exhibit 3(e)

CERTIFICATE OF OWNERSHIP

MERGING

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS AUTOMATION CONTROLS, INC. (MD.DOM.)

INTO

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED

(PURSUANT TO SECTION 253 OF THE

GENERAL CORPORATION LAW OF DELAWARE)

Texas Instruments Incorporated, a corporation incorporated on the 23rd

day of December, 1938 pursuant to the provisions of the General Corporation

Law of the State of Delaware does hereby certify that this corporation owns

all the capital stock of Texas Instruments Automation Controls, Inc. a

corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Maryland, and that

this corporation, by a resolution of its board of directors duly adopted at a

meeting held on the 18th day of March, 1988, determined to and did merge into

itself said Texas Instruments Automation Controls, Inc. which resolution is in

the following words to wit:

RESOLVED, that the Company merge into itself its subsidiary, Texas

Instruments Automation Controls, Inc., and assume all of said subsidiary's

liabilities and obligations; and it is

FURTHER RESOLVED, that pursuant to Section 253 of the General

Corporation law of the State of Delaware, a certificate of ownership setting

forth a copy of the resolutions to merge said Texas Instruments Automation

Controls, Inc. into the Company and assume its liabilities and obligations,

and the date of adoption thereof, shall be executed and acknowledged by the

Chairman of the Board, President or any Vice President of the Company, and

attested by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company, and such

certificate so executed and acknowledged shall be filed in the office of the

Secretary of the State of Delaware, and a certified copy thereof in the office

of the Recorder of Deeds of New Castle County.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said corporation has caused this certificate to be

signed by its president and attest by its secretary, and its corporate seal to

be hereto affixed, the 28th day of March, 1988.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED

By: /s/ M.M. LANE

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Vice President