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DOWNLOAD NEW CODE COMPOSER STUDIO DEMO FROM TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
To reduce costs and get your DSP designs to market faster, you need both a
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As the world leader in DSP solutions, Texas Instruments helps you excel in
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TI recently announced Code Composer StudioTM, a comprehensive, integrated
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Code Composer Studio can save you weeks of valuable development time.
Scheduled to be available for the breakthrough performance TMS320C6000 DSP
platform in 1Q 1999, and the power-efficient TMS320C5000 platform in 2Q,
1999, faster DSP software development is just around the corner.
To see how Code Composer Studio can help cut your time to market and reduce
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Is it me or does the TI debug sound alot like the apex debug announced by Spectrum and per company portable to any core single or parallel
San Jose, CA, USA - November 3, 1998 -- Spectrum Signal Processing Inc.
(NASDAQ NMS: SSPIF / TSE: SSY), the industry leader in high-performance
DSP systems, today at the Embedded Systems Show unveiled APEX-Debug 3.0
with a new Event Trace feature. This tool allows engineers developing
parallel DSP systems to simultaneously view each processor's activity in
the system. Now developers working on SHARC-based applications can view
the internal operation and behavior of the DSP, quickly identify
disruptions, and correct them at the system-level.
APEX-Debug 3.0 with Trace is ideally suited for applications requiring
massively parallel systems and/or asynchronous event handling. This
product is an interactive, multi-processor graphical debug and
optimization tool that gives the designer a user-friendly, graphical
view of the DSP's activity. With APEX-Debug, the designer can view data
flow through multiple DSPs and view system-level interactions offering
an immediate visual indication as to whether the application is running
as expected. This debug tool is designed to work with minimal support
from the run-time environment, leaving scheduling and communications
under the control of the user.
The new Trace feature displays information in a fashion similar to a
logic analyzer, such that software events and states are shown on
different 'trace-lines'. Therefore, the designer benefits from the
powerful capability of viewing the timing and interaction of
user-defined or system events. For example, APEX-Debug can provide an
instantaneous snap-shot of the system, including a history of events to
the point where debugging is activated. Post-mortem debugging is
extremely beneficial, particularly since the activities of each
processor in the network during the last moments of execution often
contain the key to tracking down programming errors. In this situation,
APEX-Debug 3.0 with Trace becomes indispensable, providing users with
very detailed information on the final state of each DSP. - more -
As more DSPs are added to the system, taking best advantage of available
processing power is often more difficult than getting the application
running. Having reliable optimization tools is integral to any parallel
debugging utility. APEX-Debug 3.0 with Trace offers a number of powerful
features (including profiling, communication statistics and event
tracing), each of which provide vital information on performance and
communication bottlenecks that could severely hinder system performance.
APEX-Debug is complimented by APEX-Pro, an advanced SHARC programming
environment offering high-level communication utilities, a customizable,
multi-threaded host interface, plus an interactive visual utility for
system configuration and diagnostics. The goal of the APEX-Pro
development tool is to provide developers with a system-level tool that
simplifies application development, freeing users from low-level
hardware configuration and topology concerns. Spectrum offers a very
wide range of scaleable (modular) SHARC-based, COTS products that are
all supported by APEX-Pro and Debug tools.
"We recognize that our customers need to rapidly implement, debug and
deploy their system. APEX-Debug with the new Trace tool assists the
developer to visualize the interaction between multiple DSPs that are
executing activities in parallel at the processor-level. This
visualization tool enables the developer to debug complex system-level
software issues very quickly. This new product will allow rapid debug of
complex hardware and software integration problems," said Phil Radtke,
Software Marketing Manager at Spectrum. "APEX-Debug with the Trace tool
greatly increases the sophistication level of SHARC-based COTS software
available from system-level DSP providers."
Spectrum's APEX-Debug 3.0 with Trace for SHARC-based applications is
available for order today. Base pricing starts at US$4,950 for single
product purchases.
Spectrum Signal Processing is the leading worldwide supplier of DSP
system solutions. The company offers DSP software, off-the-shelf
hardware, custom ASIC design and complete custom systems. Customers such
as Nortel, Hewlett Packard, Northrop Grumman, NEC, Daewoo Telecom, the
US Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin benefit from Spectrum's
innovative, programmable DSP products, by gaining competitive advantages
such as faster time to market and low-cost feature set upgradeability.
Spectrum Signal Processing is publicly traded on NASDAQ NMS under the
symbol SSPIF and on the TSE under the symbol SSY. The company is ISO9001
quality certified, can be found on the web at
spectrumsignal.com, and is located at #100 - 8525 Baxter
Place, Burnaby, B.C., Canada. ph (604) 421-5422; fax (604) 421-1764.
Any statements made by the company that are not historical facts are
forward-looking statements that are pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including
the timely development and acceptance of new products, the impact of
competitive products and pricing, changing market conditions and the
other risks detailed in the company's prospectus and from time to time
in other filings. Actual results may differ materially from those
projected. These forward-looking statements represent the company's
judgment as of the date of this release. The company may or may not
update these forward-looking statements in the future.
Another first in the industry is Code Composer Studio's powerful
real-time analysis and debug capabilities. DSP developers now have the
ability to analyze and debug a live system without halting the
processor. This allows users to identify real-time problems during
design, development and in the field. Without this ability, such
problems can take weeks to locate, if they can be located at all.
The unique advanced data visualization capability of Code Composer
Studio™ enables DSP developers to gain a fast and intuitive
understanding of the system and its characteristics. Using the
integrated graphical signal analysis capability, you can see data change
in real-time and identify problems quickly for specific applications
including communications, control and imaging. |
