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Article #643Ptolemy 0.4 Release Now Available
From: Alan Kamas
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:40
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:40
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The 0.4 release of Ptolemy is now available. Ptolemy provides a highly flexible foundation for the specification, simulation, and rapid prototyping of systems. It is an object oriented framework within which diverse models of computation can co-exist and interact. For example, using Ptolemy a data-flow system can be easily connected to a hardware simulator which in turn may be connected to a discrete-event system, etc. Because of this, Ptolemy can be used to model entire systems. In addition, Ptolemy now has code generation capabilities. From a flow graph description, Ptolemy can generate both C code and DSP assembly code for rapid prototyping. Note that code generation is not yet complete, and is included in the current release for demonstration purposes only. Ptolemy has been used for a broad range of applications including signal processing, telecomunications, parallel processing, wireless communications, optical phase lock loops, real time systems, and hardware/software co-design. Ptolemy has also been used as a lab for signal processing and communications courses. Currently Ptolemy has hundreds of users in over 75 sites, both in industry and academia. Ptolemy is available for the Sun 4 (sparc) and DecStation (MIPS) architectures. A port to the HP workstation is in progress. Installing the system requires 49 Mbytes for Ptolemy (64 Mbytes after you optionally rebuild) and 16 Mbytes for the Gnu tools subset. At least 8 Mbytes of physical memory are required. Ptolemy has been developed at UC Berkeley over the past 3 years. Further information, including papers and the complete release notes, is available from the FTP site. A license is no longer required to receive Ptolemy. The source code, binaries, and documentation are available by anonymous ftp from ptolemy.berkeley.edu [ftp "ptolemy.bekeley.edu". login as "anonymous". cd "pub". get README] -- Alan Kamas aok@eecs.berkeley.edu 558 Cory Hall phone: (510) 643-7683 University of California at Berkeley fax: (510) 642-2739 Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!rice.berkeley.edu!aok From: aok@rice.berkeley.edu (Alan Kamas) Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad Subject: Ptolemy 0.4 Release Now Available Date: 23 Dec 1992 07:40:37 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 42 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1h955lINNaju@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1992Dec20.204402.1020@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rice.berkeley.edu Keywords: dsp, ftp