Natick, Massachusetts - (2/20/2001) The MathWorks, Inc. today announced availability of the Developer's Kit for Texas InstrumentsT (TI)Digital Signal Processing (DSP). 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™," said Neal Lackritz, a research engineer at Bose Corporation. "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 engineers working in communications, multimedia, consumer electronics, aerospace and education can now easily simulate, generate, and validate solutions for TI's TMS320 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 and rapid prototyping 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™ 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 ExchangeT (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, 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 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® Windows® 95, 98, and NT operating systems 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, 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.

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 in DSP/BIOS, theTMS320(tm) DSP Algorithm Standard -- for application interoperability 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, 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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