TI DSPS 3rd Party Listings: Software Development Utilities: Paramex

Digital Signal Processing Solutions Tools: Software Development Utilities

Product Name:	Paramex
Company Name:	3L Ltd.
Features & Benefits:	Use MATLAB with DSP chips Wide range of DSP boards supported Support for networks of parallel DSPs Rich parallel programming environment Use MATLAB as user interface for DSP apps
Application Area:	Visualization
Host Platforms Supported:	Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows NT
TMS320 Devices Supported:	C4x
Codegeneration Capabilities:	C
Visual Programming Capabilities:	NO
Technical Support/Training Available:	YES Full technical support is included with the product.
Overview:	MATLAB allows you to speed up interpreted ".m" files by calling compiled C code (".mex" files). Paramex extends this by allowing the C code to run on DSP boards, giving you access to real-time performance. Paramex therefore integrates the intensive compute performance of DSP chips with the data visualization power of MATLAB. Because Paramex uses 3L Parallel C as the programming environment for the DSPs, it is easy to make use of not just one DSP, but many of them running in parallel, for ultimate performance. Multi-tasking, multi-threading and automatic support for any number of DSPs is provided. Starting out with just one DSP though is simply a matter of recompiling your original ".mex" file. No source changes are required. Any processor in the target network can call MATLAB on the host computer to execute built-in MATLAB functions, ".m" files, or ".mex" files that run on the host. For example, any DSP can execute mexEvalString("plot(s)"); to plot the matrix "s". Full and sparse matrices can be passed between MATLAB on the host and any of the DSPs. Paramex also adds matrix-based inter-processor communication operations to Parallel C. Any processor in the DSP network can read or write ".mat" data files.
Company Information:	3L Ltd. 86/92 Causewayside Edinburgh Scotland EH9 1PY United Kingdom Tel: +44 131 662 4333 Fax: +44 131 662 4556 e-mail: threeL@threeL.co.uk www: http://www.threeL.co.uk
	Texas Instruments commissioned 3L to port their successful Parallel C tools to the TMS320C4x in 1992. 3L Parallel C is now the leading C4x RTOS.