The MathWorks Delivers the Developer's Kit for Texas Instruments DSP.Business/Technology Editors NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2001 -- Integrates 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) and Simulink(R) with eXpressDSP(TM) for More Efficient and Faster Design of DSP-based Systems -- The MathWorks, Inc. today announced availability of 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. (TM) (TI) 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). (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 ). The result of a collaboration announced in 2000, The MathWorks and TI have integrated MATLAB 6 and Simulink 4 with TI's eXpressDSP Real-Time Software Technology in order to eliminate the acute software gap between DSP algorithm research and implementation. The combination of The MathWorks' leading algorithm development environment, DSP algorithms and system-level design solution with TI's leading software development environment provides immediate advances in DSP design by producing more efficient designs in a shorter amount of time. "The Developer's Kit for Texas Instruments DSPs helped me explore the flexibility of targeting Real-Time Workshop to third-party development tools such as TI's Code Composer Studio(TM)," said Neal Lackritz, a research engineer at Bose Corporation The Bose Corporation is a privately-held American company based in Framingham, Massachusetts that specializes in audio equipment[2][3] and holds the philosophy of supporting its technological development through research (thus the company motto). . "Combining the Developer's Kit with The MathWorks' open and extensible architecture allows me to customize Real-Time Workshop for my application." The Developer's Kit for Texas Instruments DSP enhances productivity by providing engineers working throughout the product design cycle with the ability to gain earlier access to DSP hardware and development tools for both real-time evaluation and optimization, and for rapidly eliminating errors. Algorithm developers, system designers and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. engineers working in communications, multimedia, consumer electronics, aerospace and education can now easily simulate, generate, and validate solutions for TI's 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 320 C6000 and TMS320 C5000 DSP platforms of fixed - and floating-point DSPs. "The availability of the Mathworks' Developer's Kit for TI DSPs as an eXpressDSP compliant plug-in is the first time that our customers can significantly shorten their design cycle with a unique seamless path from algorithm development to implementation on a TMS320 DSP," said Omar Fattah, eXpressDSP Plug-in Manager at Texas Instruments. "This integration of the most comprehensive and widely used DSP software tools allows DSP engineers to quickly build and deploy optimized applications using the powerful integrated real-time analysis, data visualization See information visualization. and rapid prototyping Building a part one layer at a time using a method of additive fabrication such as 3D printing. Such parts are used for concept modeling to determine if the product design meets the customer's expectations. capabilities." The Developer's Kit for TI DSPs includes several key features that fully integrate The MathWorks' algorithm development and system-level design tools with TI's eXpressDSP. -- MATLAB link for Code Composer Studio(TM) IDE provides seamless data transfer between Code Composer Studio and MATLAB, as well as direct MATLAB access to CCS functionality for controlling and debugging DSP applications. Utilizing MATLAB's advanced analysis and visualization power, users can more effectively design and debug complex DSP algorithms. -- MATLAB link for Real-Time Data Exchange(TM) (RTDX) enables real-time transfer of data between MATLAB and a TI DSP device without halting the target application. The RTDX interface can be used to "monitor" the DSP and display and evaluate results. Engineers can now perform advanced analysis of real-time data that results in more efficient test generation and verification of DSP applications. -- SIMULINK target for Code Composer Studio IDE automatically constructs a Code Composer Studio project from C code generated by Simulink. Algorithms validated at the system-level can now be transferred in the CSS development environment, allowing engineers to focus on performance and optimization issues instead of writing DSP source code. -- SIMULINK target for TMS320 C6701 EVM automates rapid prototyping and enables real-time evaluation of algorithms on a C6701 processor using the plug-in evaluation board. This component automatically builds an executable, downloads it to a C6701 EVM, and runs the executable on the DSP. Engineers can gain greater insight into their designs by quickly optimizing and testing design alternatives in a real-time environment. "The Developer's Kit for TI DSP is not only a strategic addition to our DSP product offerings, but it is also the first in a series of new products The MathWorks will create for the eXpressDSP environment," said Ken Karnofsky, Director of Marketing, DSP and Communications at The MathWorks. "We are building on a common goal: to provide tools that continue to revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es 1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage. 2. DSP software design and development." Platform, Pricing and Availability The Developer's Kit for Texas Instruments DSP from The MathWorks is currently shipping for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 95, 98, and NT operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and works with Code Composer Studio v1.2 from TI. Pricing starts at $1,000 for an individual PC license. Additional pricing information can be found on The MathWorks Web site. Quantity and education discounts are available. 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 data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. , government, process industries, electronics, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, finance and economics, earth and planetary sciences planetary science or planetology, study of planets and planetary systems as a whole. Planetary science applies the theories and methods of traditional disciplines such as astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, and mathematics to the study of , and instrumentation. Employing more than 700 people worldwide, The MathWorks was founded in 1984. Visit www.mathworks.com for more information. About eXpressDSP The award-winning eXpressDSP software technology is the premier, open software environment for TI DSPs. Its four components are: a powerful, extensible, integrated development tool suite in Code Composer Studio, a real-time software kernel The nucleus of an operating system. It is the closest part to the machine level and may activate the hardware directly or interface to another software layer that drives the hardware. in DSP/BIOS, theTMS320(TM) DSP Algorithm Standard - for application interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. and the world's largest DSP third party network - providing algorithms, plug-ins tools and development hardware. EXpressDSP is designed to reduce development time well above 50 percent, increase DSP applications tenfold tenfold Adjective 1. having ten times as many or as much 2. composed of ten parts Adverb by ten times as many or as much Adj. 1. , give DSP end users a "make vs. buy" choice for DSP algorithms and allow programmers to invest their time focusing on the next winning application. |
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