"Dwight,...That's all very nice that TI is making progress, but is there
any mention of SSPI in that TI announcement? Since I don't know all of
the possible subsidiaries of SSPI, are any of the companies that are
named related to SSPI? If so, I'd be happy to hear any details. "
SPECTRUM SIGNAL PROCESSING ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SYSTEM-LEVEL
PRODUCTIVITY TOOL FOR MULTI-DSP APPLICATIONS
New Development Tool Provides System-Level Exposure, Decreases
Time-to-Market & Compliments Texas Instruments' and Analog Devices1
Software Environments
Burnaby, B.C., Canada - March 1, 1999 -- Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. (NASDAQ NMS: SSPIF / TSE: SSY), the industry leader in high-performance DSP systems, announced today plans to develop a productivity enhancement tool which will allow developers to quickly optimize and debug multiprocessor DSP applications at the system-level, thereby decreasing time-to-market. Designed to be compliant with Texas Instruments' Code Composer Studio <b/> and AnalogDevices1 VisualDSP, the software will also work seamlessly with Spectrum's DSP hardware in parallel processing environments. This system-level software will make Spectrum's DSP systems even easier to use, and significantly shorten product development time. Spectrum intends to utilize its in-house software engineering team and strategic alliances to provide scaleable software product offerings that grant multiple entry points to address the performance versus complexity tradeoffs. This modular software environment will allow customers to pick and choose the level of Spectrum-supplied software in their system, thus giving developers the tools and information they need to make design decisions without any limitations. In addition, by providing a development environment which has a system-level tool that a developer can use at every stage in the development cycle, customers will be able to develop and deploy their product faster.
"With the development of our new system-level productivity enhancement
tool, Spectrum has further demonstrated its commitment to providing our customers with DSP system solutions that accelerate their product
development cycle and are easy to use," said Phil Radtke, Spectrum's
Software Marketing manager.
"Now, in conjunction with our hardware, application developers can use
our system-level software tool which is highly optimized, and works
seamlessly with our DSP hardware. Plus, they can be confident that as
our hardware evolves, so will our software, thereby eliminating future
migration difficulties and ensuring they retain their software
investment," Radtke added.
For TI-based parallel DSP systems, Spectrum's software will feature Code Composer Studio plug-ins, support DSP/BIOS and RTDX and have a
TI-compliant framework ensuring DSP software interoperability and reuse. In addition, the software's system-level features will add value to code development tools, such as Code Composer Studio, by enabling developers to address system-level optimizations, software bottlenecks and timing issues between code modules or DSPs. <b/>
Spectrum will also leverage ADI1s VisualDSP foundation when designing
its system-level productivity enhancement tool for ADI-based
multiprocessor applications. This system-level tool will cater to
ADI-based systems by incorporating open API standards which will
integrate into VisualDSP.
Spectrum's new software, coupled with its existing DSP hardware, is
designed to help developers become more comfortable and proficient with the Spectrum development environment faster than previously possible. This new DSP system software tool, according to Radtke, will result in the easiest to use and fastest to deploy multiprocessor hardware products in the DSP systems industry. |
