D2 Technologies Inc. Announces DSP Diag; Comprehensive Suite of DSP Diagnostics Software.SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1999--D2 Technologies Inc., a 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 software for Computer and Internet Telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. manufacturers, Tuesday announced DSP Diag as its latest addition to its catalog of software components. DSP Diag is a highly configurable library of hardware and system diagnostics software for the 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. TMS TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (alternative medicine for depression) TMS Test Match Special (sports - cricket) TMS Texas Motor Speedway TMS Transportation Management System TMS Toyota Motor Sales 320C5000 platform of DSP processors. It consists of tests and measurements for all major sections of the TMS320C54x DSP and common digital and signal 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 peripherals and can be used for hardware check-out, systems integration, production, field diagnostics and product repair. While developers of traditional embedded systems can rely on the operating system or BIOS to provide hardware diagnostics capabilities, the scarcity of program memory in DSP systems requires DSP developers to generate separate diagnostics software for hardware check-out and manufacturing tests. D2 has addressed this need of DSP developers by building a library of comprehensive and highly configurable diagnostics programs that can be executed independent of the DSP operating system or application software. DSP Diag features both systems and signal tests. The systems tests cover on-chip and external memory, serial ports, host port, clock and interrupts. The signal tests cover channel transposition transposition /trans·po·si·tion/ (trans?po-zish´un) 1. displacement of a viscus to the opposite side. 2. , echo return loss, cross-talk and ambient noise levels. DSP Diag includes detailed documentation that can be used for a customer's hardware, system and production test plan that is also an effective learning tool for first-time C54x programmers. "Even for an experienced engineer, one of the most difficult and unpredictable tasks of developing a DSP system is system integration, when untested hardware and software must come together and work flawlessly," said David Wong, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of D2 Technologies. "DSP Diag dramatically reduces the time for system integration by allowing the software developer to concentrate on application development instead of hardware verification." DSP Diag is the result of more than five years of experience in designing, developing, testing and manufacturing DSP-based telephony systems based on the TI TMS320C5000 platform. "DSP Diag complements Texas Instruments DSP BIOS and Code Composer tools by supplying diagnostic software designed to characterize and isolate errors in DSP-based hardware," said Mark Tiernan, Texas Instruments 'C5000 product manager. "It will help TI customers cut weeks or months out of a typical DSP project and get products to market sooner. We are pleased D2 is also planning to provide a plug-in for Code Composer Studio(tm) available later this year." About D2 Technologies Based in Santa Barbara, D2 Technologies is a leading supplier of innovative and cost-effective digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). solutions for Next Generation Telephony. D2 develops, markets and supports DSP solutions for voice mail, IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. , call centers, digital voice switching, smart phones, wireless systems, voice over packets for IP, Frame Relay and ATM gateways. D2 offers off-the-shelf software components, integrated solutions and turnkey engineering services to help customers achieve maximum performance in the shortest possible time. D2's products are field proven and have been incorporated into a wide range of industry-leading computer telephony systems. D2's customers include some of the largest telecommunications and Internet companies in the industry. Company news and product information is available at http://www.d2tech.com. D2 will be demonstrating PakIT-Voice(tm) an integrated DSP software product that provides all the necessary voice processing software for voice over IP, voice over frame relay and voice over ATM gateway systems at Voice on the Net, Spring 99, booth 401. The show runs April 14 to 16, at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. |
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