NATICK, Mass./PADERBORN, Germany, July 29, 1992 - The MathWorks, Inc. and
dSpace GmbH today announced the signing of an exclusive agreement under
which the companies will create and market a high-performance, low-cost
integrated hardware and software solution for design, analysis, and
real-time implementation of control and embedded systems.

The solution, with a price/performance ratio unequaled in the market, will
enable design and systems engineers in automotive, aerospace,
telecommunications, electronics, computer peripherals, and other
industries to perform their simulation work in one seamless environment,
leading to increased productivity and an accelerated development process.

Under the agreement, the companies will integrate The MathWorks' MATLAB,
the popular standard in numeric computation software, and SIMULINK, for
simulating dynamic systems, with dSPACE software and hardware. The dSPACE
system is based on digital signal processor (DSP) technology to enable
extremely fast processing during real-time testing.

The MathWorks software has an open interface that can support hardware from
multiple vendors. However, its alliance with dSPACE gives design and
systems engineers a total hardware and software solution that combines The
MathWorks' strengths in analysis, design, and simulation software with
dSPACE's expertise in hardware and real-time implementation.

"This alliance will result in a powerful and affordable integrated system
for dynamic system simulation and real-time testing. Previous options for
users were either to purchase hardware and software from different vendors
and integrate these components themselves, or to purchase expensive
'black-box' approaches that lacked the flexibility and price/performance
to satisfy user requirements. The market is clamoring for an affordable
and open solution from a single source, and we intend to be the first to
provide it," said John N. Little, The MathWorks' president and chief
executive officer.

Dr. Herbert Hanselmann, co-founder and senior managing partner at dSPACE
said, "This alliance means that the previously separate fields of off-line
design and analysis and on-line, real-time testing will be combined in one
high-performance system at a price that makes it more accessible than ever
before."

Features of MATLAB, SIMULINK

MATLAB, the underlying numeric computation foundation for all of The
MathWorks' products, combines hundreds of built-in mathematical functions
with powerful 2-D and 3-D graphing capabilities. In addition, MATLAB
offers an underlying programming environment that enables users to create,
debug, and execute their own functions in a fraction of the time required
to write a program in Fortran, Basic, or C. The MATLAB application
toolboxes extend the power of MATLAB by providing leading-edge algorithms
and functions developed by renowned experts in digital signal processing,
control system design, neural networks, system identification, dynamic
system simulation, optimization, and other application areas.

This solid algorithmic foundation assures maximum efficiency and reliable
results. These features have made MATLAB an industry standard for
exploring and solving a wide range of problems in engineering, science,
business, and education on computer platforms from Apple, Convex, Cray,
DEC, HP/Apollo, IBM, Silicon Graphics, and Sun.

SIMULINK gives engineers, scientists, and others a highly interactive,
graphical, and intuitive solution for modeling and analyzing dynamic
systems, including linear, nonlinear, continuous, discrete and hybrid
models. Previously known as SIMULAB, SIMULINK was recently renamed to
reflect The MathWorks' intent to build upon the SIMULINK/MATLAB open
architecture. It offers expanded solutions that leverage the simulation,
modeling, analysis, and design capabilities found in the current product
line through strategic partnerships with third-party vendors. The dSPACE
relationship is an example of this.

With SIMULINK, users can build block-diagram models using familiar
point-and-click manipulations and dynamically link their models to
user-created C, Fortran, and MATLAB routines. Users can perform live
simulations that display results during the simulation, and they can
change their systems' parameters to see the effects immediately.

dSPACE Hardware and Software Features

dSPACE is the only company using digital signal processor technology
targeted specifically at the advanced control and real-time simulation
fields and is tailored for use in even the most demanding closed-loop and
multichannel testing applications. Its products are used in a variety of
areas, including vehicle control, robotics, and computer peripherals.

dSPACE hardware is based on technologically advanced Texas Instruments
TMS320C30 and TMS320C40 floating-point DSPs, with computing power starting
at 33MFLOPS. The hardware product family includes plug in boards for PCs,
expansion boxes with a bus interface, and Ethernet-compatible expansion
boxes for lab or in-vehicle use.

Configuration, Pricing, Availability

The MathWorks and dSPACE will jointly market the systems they develop
beginning later this year. Pricing for the complete system will start
under $30,000 in the United States. Quantity and educational discounts are
available. The MathWorks and dSPACE will offer training on the use of the
combined products.

dSPACE is a developer of high-performance software and DSP-based hardware
systems for real-time control. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in
Paderborn, Germany, the company's customer base includes leading
universities, research labs and corporations worldwide. dSPACE has an
office in the U.S. and is represented in various countries throughout the
world.

The MathWorks, Inc., based in Natick, Mass., develops and markets
high-performance interactive engineering and scientific software for
numeric computation, system simulation, and visualization. The MathWorks'
products are distributed worldwide.

The Math Works Inc
Cochituate Place, 24 Prime Park Way, Natick, MA 01760
508-653-1415

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