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November 06, 2006 08:00 AM Pacific Time

Simulink HDL Coder from The MathWorks Wins GSPx New Product Forum Award

New Software Tool Recognized for Accelerating Design, Implementation, and Verification of Hardware

ISPCON FALL 2006

NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The MathWorks today announced that Simulink® HDL Coder has won a New Product Forum Award at GSPx 2006, the International Signal Processing Conference and Expo taking place this week in Santa Clara, Calif. The award, one of three presented at this year’s GSPx, recognizes new hardware, software, and EDA products that offer the greatest promise for signal processing and embedded software industries.

Simulink HDL Coder is an industry first for system and hardware engineers, letting them adopt Model-Based Design in their development processes for both hardware and software. Available since September, the product automatically generates synthesizable hardware description language (HDL) code from the company’s Simulink® and Stateflow® software. With Simulink HDL Coder, engineers can produce target-independent Verilog and VHDL code and test benches for implementing and verifying application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

“There’s been a strong response from the engineering community since the September announcement of this product,” said Ken Karnofsky, director of marking, signal processing and communications at The MathWorks. “This award is further evidence that Simulink HDL Coder will be a vital link in the systems development process.”

GSPx targets design engineers and senior-level developers responsible for the development and management of embedded technologies and products incorporating such solutions. This year’s New Product Forum Award was judged by the editorial staff from Hearst Business Media, publishers of Electronics Products magazine.

“With Simulink HDL Coder engineers using MATLAB and Simulink get a direct path from Simulink models into the HDL level of design,” said Murray Slovick, editorial director, electronics group, Hearst Business Media. “The obvious benefit for either FPGA or ASIC implementation is a reduction in design time and cost.”

About The MathWorks

The MathWorks is the world’s leading developer of technical computing and Model-Based Design software for engineers and scientists in industry, government, and education. With an extensive product set based on MATLAB and Simulink, The MathWorks provides software and services to solve challenging problems and accelerate innovation in automotive, aerospace, communications, financial services, biotechnology, electronics, instrumentation, process, and other industries.

The MathWorks was founded in 1984 and employs more than 1,400 people worldwide, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts. For additional information, visit www.mathworks.com.

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