New upgrade to MATRIXx product family
New upgrade to MATRIXx product family
Keywords: ISI, Software
Integrated Systems, Inc. (ISI), a leading worldwide provider of embedded systems software for a broad range of industries, recently released the newest version of its MATRIXx product family, version 6.1. New functionality in this version offers benefits to users of all aspects of the product line --modelling, simulation, production code generation, document generation and rapid prototyping -- and has been developed in close co-operation with ISI's strategic partners in the Aerospace and Automotive industries. With these new enhancements, MATRIXx offers design engineers greater flexibility and efficiency, while further accelerating a product's time-to-market.
Mike Osier, general manager, ISI UK said:
MATRIXx 6.1 includes productivity enhancing capabilities defined by our strategic customers in the Aerospace and Automotive industries. As a result, ISI is able to offer design engineers complete embedded software solutions from the development of production ready code to implementation with an operating system. The new capabilities of MATRIXx enable us to offer an industry leading graphical software development tool at the industry's best price/performance ratio.
The goals for MATRIXx 6.1 have been to introduce productivity enhancing capabilities for control systems designers by focusing on three major areas -new modelling constructs, ease of use, and improved code and document generation. Specific enhancements in the product include: New Modelling constructs: MATRIXx/SystemBuild now offers a palette of matrix computation blocks - an important enhancement for iterative algorithms such as Kalman Filters typically found in most guidance, navigation and control applications. Further, a new palette of implicit equation blocks allows users to efficiently model systems with implicit dynamics. These new capabilities will further broaden the usage of MATRIXx in the aerospace and automotive industries.
Ease of use: MATRIXx 6.1 features a number of usability enhancements -these include multiple editor windows, copy and paste support with Windows programs, support for bitmap icons, and many other usability and diagram readability enhancements. These enhancements will increase its acceptance as a graphical software specification tool.
Improved code and document generation: with MATRIXx 6.1, Integrated Systems has added additional compiler-like code optimisation switches to improve the footprint and efficiency of the automatically generated code - thereby enhancing the applicability of MATRIXx/AutoCode for production software applications. MATRIXx 6.1 also includes code generation support for OSEK/VDX 2.0 operating systems. Document generation has been enhanced to allow a user-specified editor(such as Microsoft Word or HTML editors), allowing users to specify comments in formatted form rather than ASCII form.
MATRIXx version 6.1 currently is available to customers on PC (Windows®NT and Windows 95), Sun (SunOS and Solaris) and HP platforms. Other platform support will follow soon after.
The MATRIXx product family is widely used by customers in the Aerospace and Automotive industries including: NASA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell,British Aerospace, AlliedSignal, United Technologies, Rolls-Royce, General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Delphi, Lucas Varity, BMW, Siemens, Bosch, Honda,Nissan, Denso, Fiat, Renault and Peugeot.
Integrated Systems, Inc. is a leading worldwide provider of embedded systems software for a broad range of industries, including telecommunications, data communications, automotive, digital office and consumer electronics. ISI's software helps manufacturers bring higher quality, more fully featured products to market faster. The company's global customer base includes blue chip corporations such as: Boeing, Canon, Cisco, Daimler-Chrysler, Ericson, Honda,IBM, Kodak, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nokia, Sony, 3Com and Xerox. Sales and services offices are located worldwide in Asia, Europe and North America. Additional information about the company is available at its Web site:www.isi.com
Details from Integrated Systems, Inc. Ltd. Tel: +44(0)1462 687300; Fax: +44(0)1462 687301.
