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News Releases REAL-TIME INNOVATIONS' CONTROLSHELL 7.0 PROVIDES END-TO-END TOOL CHAIN FOR INTELLIGENT CONTROLSeamless integration of Real-Time Innovations' ControlShell with Simulink from The MathWorks makes control system development easier and faster SUNNYVALE, Calif. - August 7, 2000 - Real-Time Innovations, Inc. (RTI) today unveiled an integrated development environment for complex control systems. RTI's introduction of the ControlShell® version 7.0 application development environment (ADE) for intelligent control and simulation provides seamless integration with Simulink® from The MathWorks. The new environment offers control system developers an end-to-end tool chain that streamlines system modeling, code generation, application design, and software development. Common applications include surgical simulators, robot controllers, manufacturing process workcells, autonomous vehicles, and aerospace systems. The ControlShell application framework is designed explicitly for software development of large control systems. It handles complex and intelligent subsystems, wraps legacy code, and easily incorporates complex, custom modules. Simulink is a software tool for developing and simulating control systems and offers a powerful system simulation and modeling environment. Real-Time Workshop®, also from The MathWorks, offers the ability to generate code from Simulink models. Developers can use Simulink to develop behavioral models and include these in a ControlShell application to prototype and deliver the system--using each tool to handle the work that it does best. "Simulink is the de-facto standard for control system development. Together ControlShell and Simulink form an end-to-end tool chain that streamlines the development of complex systems that have a controller embedded into a system management environment," says Mike Dickens, Director of Marketing at The MathWorks. "This combination supports the development team from design and analysis through simulation and prototyping to final application code." "We're excited about the new capabilities ControlShell version 7.0 brings to complex control and simulation systems developers," states Brett Murphy, VP of Marketing for RTI. "We have seen many customers with a big disconnect between the control engineers and the software programmers. With this release, we've bridged that gap. Now bringing controls algorithms and models from Simulink into the test systems and deployed software is straight-forward. Using Real-Time Workshop developers can generate code from Simulink models and automatically include it in their ControlShell software application." About ControlShell ControlShell is a complete software devel-opment environment, specifically designed for complex, intelligent control systems. It encompasses all the tools and 'glue' required to build these applications. ControlShell includes an application framework that specifically targets control and simulation systems. The application framework includes an object hierarchy, a pre-defined structural framework, and pre-written libraries that form the basic program structure. Teams use the framework to coordi-nate their efforts, build and test software and hardware, and deliver a working application. By starting from a proven framework, you start the project halfway done. ControlShell's integrated development tools and component-based framework speed development and encourage code reuse. There are graphical tools for data monitoring, performance testing, memory analysis, source-level debugging, function/method tracing, live state-machine animation, scenario capture and replay, and test scripting. ControlShell has a complete compilation and build system, code and diagram level debugging, a customizable integration with revision-control software tools, and with version 7.0, a tight integration with Simulink. The component repository-centric view of the world provides a reuse mindset that pervades the entire project. This speeds development, while the reuse of well-tested components increases code quality. About Simulink Simulink is an interactive tool for modeling, simulating, and analyzing dynamic systems. Commonly used in control system, DSP, and communication system design, as well as other simulation applications, Simulink enables control and DSP engineers and embedded system designers to build graphical block diagrams, simulate dynamic systems, evaluate system performance, and refine their designs. Simulink includes an extensive library of pre-defined blocks that can be used to develop graphical models of systems using drag-and-drop operations. Supported model types include linear, nonlinear, continuous-time, discrete-time, multirate, conditionally executed, and hybrid systems. Engineers can group models into hierarchies to create a simplified view of components or subsystems. High-level information is presented clearly and concisely, while detailed information is easily hidden in subsystems within the model hierarchy. Simulink has many features that allow for customization, especially with regard to incorporating existing user-written C code. With optional extension products, such as Real-Time Workshop, Stateflow®, and a variety of blocksets, Simulink can be utilized throughout the design process. With Real-Time Workshop, users can generate C code automatically from their Simulink models and download the code to run on a variety of real-time targets. Stateflow allows users to incorporate logic into their Simulink models, while blocksets extend the capabilities of Simulink with additional libraries for specialized applications. With Simulink and its family of modeling and simulation solutions, engineers and designers can shorten design cycles, reduce development costs and improve product quality. Pricing and Availability ControlShell is supported on Sun, Linux, SGI and Windows NT hosts. Applications developed on ControlShell developed will run on Wind River Systems VxWorks®, SGI's React, Windows NT and 2000, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. In addition, ControlShell is integrated with Wind River Systems Tornado development environment. ControlShell 7.0 is available now on all the above platforms starting at $13,250. Simulink and Real-Time Workshop are available from The MathWorks, visit www.mathworks.com store for product pricing availability. Real-Time Innovations, Inc. Real-Time Innovations, Inc. (RTI) is a leading developer of new tools and architectures for the growing real-time software market. The company's products help real-time developers analyze and understand embedded systems, speed development of distributed real-time systems, and coordinate the work of teams of programmers developing large projects. RTI products power applications ranging from network monitoring to the Space Shuttle launch-control system. RTI's over 2,000 customers include leading companies in aerospace, semiconductor equipment, telecommunications, robotics, and industrial automation. A privately held company located in Sunnyvale, Calif., RTI was founded in 1991 and in 1998 was named the 16th fastest-growing private company in Silicon Valley by the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal. Together with our customers, we are 'Shaping the Future of Real Time.' ### ControlShell, Real-Time Innovations, and Shaping the Future of Real Time are registered trademarks of Real-Time Innovations, Inc. The MathWorks, MATLAB, Simulink, and Real-Time Workshop are registered trademarks of The MathWorks. All other trademarks used in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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