DSP_SPEEDSTER, A SIMULINK LABKIT
FOR EASY SIMULATION OF DSP, COMMUNICATION
AND INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS
DSP Creations Ltd is pleased to announce the release of its Simulink-based DSP development environment, DSP Speedster. This collection of special blocks, soft instruments and supporting MATLAB utilities massively accelerates your entry into the world of block diagram-centred simulation of dynamic DSP systems. A rich library of blocks tailored for DSP terminology and practice supports you in selecting suitable components that cosily capture your processing concepts and aspirations and propels their exercising with unrivalled efficiency. Rapid proof-of-concept avenues for Instrumentation and Physical Layer Communication Systems are especially easy to pursue in this environment.
DSP Speedster is built around The MathWorks’ DSP Blockset product, itself already a powerhouse for DSP practitioners using the Simulink environment. With more than 400 carefully-crafted extra blocks and utility functions for specialist display and processing tasks, Speedster further supercharges Simulink utilization. Users simply select, drag, drop and connect blocks which provide the “right granularity” for fast assembly of system models that deliver sophisticated functionality without sacrificing understanding and transparency for the user.
Once you encounter Speedster’s gratifying style of “Simulink sweetening”, you will be likely to make it your first port of call when scratch-padding new algorithmic ideas, perhaps augmented later by backup through MATLAB (frequently acting in close concert with Simulink operation). Your early conceptual efforts that prove appealing after a few minutes’ experimental shaping often will mature with astonishing rapidity and harden into serious testbenches that generate “production-grade” simulations.
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DSP Speedster Features at a Glance
· Powerful Signal Analyzers for time, (zoomed) spectral, correlation, probability density and statistical displays
· Wide selection of meaningful deterministic and random signal types
· Exceptionally broad range of tunable real and complex FIR and IIR filters
· Instruments for a wealth of signal attribute and error measurements
· Energy-normalizing features ease precise noise shaping and SNR calibrations
· Comprehensive modulation, demodulation and Analytic Signal handling for baseband modelling and narrowband noise and signal generation
· Filterbanks and memoryless nonlinearities easily on tap
· Adaptive FIR and notch filters, along with special elements such as fractional-sample delayors, readily available
· Special emphasis on Matched Filters, with dedicated in-line auto-design capability in response to non-stationary noise power spectra
· A DTMF sub-library included for potent telephony simulation
· “Getting started” in Simulink eased by demo sub-library with about four dozen detailed specimen models
· Demos on BPSK, QPSK, MSK, GMSK and other digital modulation types so important in modern communications are included, along with LMS channel equalization and noise-cancelling demos
· Friendly parameter default values aid smooth and speedy creation of workable models free from grappling with manuals or help files
· Single-stepping, multi-channel signal logging and 3-dimensional scopes allow user overview and painless tracking of detailed model operation
· Big emphasis on “equipment feel”, promoting engineering probing with steady periodic signal sources and slider-controlled instruments, signal generators and filters.
· Abundant examples facilitate construction of your own block sub-libraries, demos, experiments and Simulink extensions
Price and Availability
DSP_Speedster is available on PC/Unix platforms now, at a cost of £800* per license. Simply email information@dspcreations.com, to arrange payment and delivery details.
Users must have any version of MATLAB
dating back as far as version 7.0.1
(Service Pack 1) along with corresponding versions of the Signal
Processing Toolbox, Simulink and Signal Processing Blockset. (available from
the MathWorks Inc. at mathworks.com). Slifer and Sketch-A-Filt are
companion products from DSP Creations which supply still more useful
functionality in the DSP_Speedster setting. Each of these tools has
Simulink blocks GUI-controlled, in place, permitting the ultimate in both
broad-brush arbitrary-gain filtering or meticulously-specced online filter
design while Speedster models are running.