Altium Launches Highly Efficient TASKING StarCore-R- DSP Development Toolset; Advanced Functionality Helps StarCore DSP Developers Get Products to Market Fast.Business/Technology Editors SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2002 Altium Limited (ASX ASX See: Australian Stock Exchange : ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) The high-speed CPU circuit that does calculating and comparing. Numbers are transferred from memory into the ALU for calculation, and the results are sent back into memory. Alphanumeric data are sent from memory into the ALU for comparing. ) is pleased to announce the launch of the TASKING StarCore Software Development Toolset - a highly efficient set of embedded development tools for the StarCore Digital Signal Processor A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing. Characteristics of typical Digital Signal Processors
A city of western Nigeria northeast of Ibadan. A center of Yoruba culture, it is in a cocoa-growing region. Population: 248,000. ). Apart from the superior efficiency, other advantages that TASKING's StarCore toolset will bring to developers include: full compliance with StarCore Application Binary Interface See ABI. (programming) Application Binary Interface - (ABI) The interface by which an application program gains access to operating system and other services. It should be possible to run the same compiled binary applications on any system with the right ABI. (ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. ), fully compliant with International Standards Organization See ISO. (ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. ) C'99, extensive assembly rules checking, the powerful CrossView Pro debugger, a StarCore Instruction Set Simulator An Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) is a simulation model, usually, but by no means always, coded in a high-level language, which mimics the behavior of a mainframe or microprocessor by "reading" instructions and maintaining internal variables which represent the processor's , and EOnCE On Chip Emulation support. Based on feedback from its large DSP customer base, Altium has released a StarCore embedded development toolset specifically for high-performance DSP solutions featuring an impressive list of optimization techniques. "StarCore's DSP popularity for high performance applications has meant that we have had strong demand from our DSP customers for a software development toolset that not only excels in code generation performance, but also offers great versatility and ease of use that simplifies development of DSP C applications," says Stephan Paternotte, Altium's Product Marketing Manager for TASKING's StarCore products. "The TASKING StarCore toolset provides customers of Motorola's DSP563xx with a familiar development environment for all publicly available StarCore DSP derivatives, along with the most highly optimized code available." "We are very pleased to see Altium launching its software development tools for the StarCore DSP architecture. It is clear that the availability of TASKING's expertise in DSP C-compiler and debugger technologies will contribute to StarCore's architectural success in the high-end DSP market," says Allen Hyman, Senior Strategic Marketing Manager for the StarCore Technology Center. "TASKING's robust embedded software development environment and CrossView Pro debugger is designed to help developers using StarCore DSPs get their products to market fast and works to benefit developers by maximizing StarCore's high-performance, networking capabilities, compiler efficiency, flexibility and power efficiency." The TASKING StarCore toolset will offer an integrated software development environment that enables developers to take advantage of the complete range of StarCore derivatives. Consisting of a powerful EDE, C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++/EC++ compiler, assembler, linker/locator, and debugger, the toolset will provide all the capabilities needed for application development from project management, editing, and program building to compiling, optimizing, and debugging. Specifically designed for the high performance StarCore DSP architecture, Altium's TASKING StarCore compiler is as scalable as the underlying StarCore architecture itself: supporting SoC and ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. implementations, the Variable Length Execution Set (VLES VLES Very Large Eddy Simulation ) instruction-set, and parallel-processing units. Due to extremely powerful optimization techniques, the TASKING StarCore compiler generates code that is fast as well as compact, enabling the highest execution speed at the smallest size. The TASKING StarCore compiler is ISO C'99 and StarCore ABI compliant and is tested for ISO and American National Standards Institute See ANSI. (body, standard) American National Standards Institute - (ANSI) The private, non-profit organisation (501(c)3) responsible for approving US standards in many areas, including computers and communications. ANSI is a member of ISO. (ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. ) C conformance against authoritative validation suites, such as Plum Hall and Perennial in addition to industry benchmark standards and large real-world applications. Another noteworthy feature of the TASKING StarCore toolset is extensive assembly rules checking. The StarCore Assembler is fully equipped to warn developers when the combination of instructions they wish to use is actually not supported by the architecture. At the debugging level, TASKING's powerful CrossView Pro debugger will offer both basic and advanced debugging capabilities, such as I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output simulation, program performance profiling and graphical data analysis. The CrossView Pro Debugger provides developers with superior functionality and an easy-to-use interface that reduces time spent on testing and debugging. Other superior features of TASKING's StarCore debugger are: the StarCore Instruction Set Simulator which allows developers to debug applications on the host platform even before the target hardware is available; and the StarCore On-Chip-Emulation (OnCE) which enables the debugger to communicate with StarCore devices directly, offering high quality in-circuit-emulation functionality at a low cost. The TASKING StarCore toolset is another state-of-the-art design tool from Altium that breaks down the barriers to innovation and allows developers to take full advantage of the StarCore DSP architecture. Availability The TASKING StarCore Software Development Toolset v1.0 is now available for interested beta test customers. The official product release v1.1 will become available for PC/Windows and SUN/Solaris platforms in Q2/2002 and be priced at US$5390 for the complete C/C++/EC++/ debugger toolset. Please visit www.tasking.com/products/starcore for more information on TASKING products and the TASKING StarCore Software Development Toolset. Alternatively, go to the contacts page on www.tasking.com for the details of your nearest Altium Sales & Support Center. About Altium Limited Altium Limited (ASX: ALU), trading as Protel International Limited (ASX: PRI PRI: see Institutional Revolutionary party. (Primary Rate Interface) An ISDN service that provides 23 64 Kbps B (Bearer) channels and one 64 Kbps D (Data) channel (23B+D), which is equivalent to the 24 channels of a T1 line. ) prior to August 6, 2001, is a leading global developer and supplier of desktop electronic design automation (EDA) and embedded software design tools for the Microsoft Windows environment. Since the Company's foundation in 1985 and its release of the world's first Microsoft Windows-based EDA tool in 1991, Altium has continued to apply the most advanced software design methods to provide powerful, easy-to-use and affordable design software to engineers and electronics designers worldwide. Altium's current product brands include Protel, P-CAD, TASKING, Accolade, CircuitMaker and CAMtastic!. These products offer tailored solutions covering a range of hardware and software design processes. Altium is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and operates a number of sales and support offices in Australia, the United States, Japan and Europe - as well as maintaining a large reseller network in all other major markets. More information about the Company and its products and services may be obtained from our website at http://www.altium.com. About StarCore Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the StarCore Technology Center is a cooperative research and development initiative between Agere Systems and Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector, created to design next-generation digital signal processor (DSP) core technologies. The StarCore charter is to design high-performance DSP architectures, cores and development tools for the communications, consumer electronics, and transportation industries. For more information on the StarCore initiative, visit its Web site at http://www.starcore-dsp.com Altium, Altium Total Support, Protel, P-CAD, TASKING, Accolade, CircuitMaker, CAMtastic!, Situs [Latin, Situation; location.] The place where a particular event occurs. 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