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- VANCOUVER, Canada, and San Francisco, March 23,1992 -- Spectrum Signal
- Processing, the largest supplier of high performance DSP boards and
- development systems, will market Tartan, Inc.'s FasTar math libraries for
- customers using C language to program the TMS320C30, TMS320C31, and
- TMS320C40.
-
- Spectrum will provide Tartan's package; of math routines, a fast-executing
- superset of the math libraries supplied by the standard C routines on the
- Texas Instruments' digital signal processors.
-
- FasTar can compute these routines, including sine, cosine, square root and
- tangent, much faster than those available with Tl's C Compiler. Most were
- computed 1.5 to 5 times faster, with average speed improvements of
- approximately 2 times. Users can easily replace the C routines with FasTar
- routines by copying the new math library over the old one, then compiling
- C code.
-
- "The FasTar math libraries will advance almost any DSP code development
- project and allow users to generate DSP code that runs faster and performs
- optimally," said Warren Cope, director of DSP Software Engineering for
- Spectrum. "Until FasTar was completed, DSP code with the speeds, sampling
- rates, and MFLOPs we have obtained in our analysis at Spectrum was beyond
- reach."
-
- FasTar was created in 1989 for use in Tartan's Ada C30 Development Systems.
- It provides the highest performance and speeds of any set of libraries
- available for DSP development.
-
- FasTar is available now from Spectrum for use in DSP code development with
- boards based on the Texas Instruments C3x/C4x DSPs. Pricing for the
- package begins at US$495.
-
- Spectrum is a leading developer of system and processor boards, software
- tools, hardware systems and other digital signal processing products for
- the PC, VME and SBus environments. These systems support Digital Signal
- Processors from Texas Instruments (TMS320C40/30/25/50), Analog Devices
- (ADSP-21020/2101/2100), AT&T (DSP32C) and Motorola (DSP96002/56001).
- Spectrum's unique modular DSP hardware allows users to interface
- off-the-shelf peripheral I/O boards with the DSP processor of their choice
- via the DSP~LINK system expansion interface. Spectrum Signal Processing
- Inc. is publicly traded on the Vancouver Stock Exchange under the symbol
- SSY.
-
- Tartan develops, markets and supports software for producing embedded,
- real-time applications. Products include optimizing cross-compilers,
- runtime systems, debuggers and software tools for the Ada language
- targeted to TI's 320C30, 'C31, and 'C40 DSPs, Intel's i960MC processor,
- the MIL-STD-1750A, and Motorola's MC680X0. Tartan's clients include many
- of the largest defense, aerospace, and commercial companies operating in
- the US and in Europe.
-
- Spectrum Signal Processing Inc
- Suite 301-3700 Gilmore Way, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5G 4M1
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