Award-Winning Filter Design Toolbox Extends Functionality and Adds Integration; Expanded Filter Design Toolbox Links with DSP Blockset and Developer's Kit for TI DSP.Business/Technology Editors NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2001 The MathWorks, Inc., the leading supplier of DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive design and simulation software Simulation software is based on the process of imitating a real phenomenon with a set of mathematical formulas. It is, essentially, a program that allows the user to observe an operation through simulation without actually running the program. , today announced the availability of a new version of its Filter Design Toolbox. The Toolbox provides advanced filter design methods for designing and analyzing digital filters with stringent specifications and is built on MATLAB (MATrix LABoratory) A programming language for technical computing from The MathWorks, Natick, MA (www.mathworks.com). Used for a wide variety of scientific and engineering calculations, especially for automatic control and signal processing, MATLAB runs on Windows, Mac and (R), which is recognized worldwide as the leading software for algorithm development. The Filter Design Toolbox is now linked with The MathWorks DSP and communications system-level design and implementation tools. Through a new graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to , users can now directly design and simulate advanced floating-point filters in Simulink. With the new release, customers can also export filters from the Filter Design Toolbox into Code Composer Studio. Code Composer Studio is Texas Instruments' integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment for taking DSP designs and implementing them on TI DSPs. Toracomm, a design and engineering consultancy that provides service to the wireless and mobile communications industries, selected the Filter Design Toolbox to provide a fixed-point simulation and design capability for algorithms to be implemented on DSP and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. targets. "After testing numerous competing products, we found the Filter Design Toolbox provided the best range of fixed-point arithmetic This article is about a form of limited-precision arithmetic in computing. For the fixed points of a mathematical function, see fixed point (mathematics). In computing, a fixed-point number parameters, filter architectures and operational statistics," said Richard Hewitt, senior DSP and software consultant at Toracomm. "Along with these features, the Filter Design Toolbox allows our engineers to stay within the MATLAB environment for all algorithmic simulation work, thus enhancing the value of our in-house expertise and minimizing the third-party software inventory." With this new release, the Filter Design Toolbox has added a number of new filter design techniques which let engineers easily design and evaluate advanced filters for applications such as communications, including wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , as well as speech and audio, multimedia, medical and military. "The adoption of the Filter Design Toolbox has been very strong since its initial release in late 1999. Today, with expanded functionality and links to other MathWorks DSP design products, such as the Developer's Kit for Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. DSP, the Toolbox has become an indispensable tool for engineers who design and verify the implementation of digital filters in real-time systems," said Anne Mascarin, DSP Segment Manager at The MathWorks." The MathWorks system-level design and simulation products are based on MATLAB, Simulink, and over 15 other products used to design DSP, analog/mixed-signal and control logic components of communications, multimedia and embedded electronics products. Together, these products offer engineers one integrated environment that takes a design from concept to code. The Filter Design Toolbox which received the EDN Innovation of the Year award for software products at the spring Embedded Systems Conference, requires the use of MATLAB and the Signal Processing Toolbox and is available on Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Linux operating systems. North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. commercial pricing for this toolbox starts at US $1,000 for a single-user PC license. About The MathWorks The MathWorks develops technical computing software for engineers and scientists in industry and education. An extensive family of products, based on MATLAB and Simulink, provides high-productivity tools for solving challenging mathematical, computational, controls, and DSP and communications problems. The MathWorks products serve those in education and the following industries: automotive, aerospace, telecommunications and data communications, government, process industries, electronics, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, finance and economics, earth and planetary sciences, and instrumentation. Employing more than 700 people worldwide, The MathWorks was founded in 1984. Visit www.mathworks.com for more information. MATLAB and Simulink are registered trademarks of The MathWorks, Inc. |
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