The MathWorks and Delphi Delco Electronics Systems Join Forces to Define and Develop Tools for Automotive Production ECU Development

Business Wire, March 27, 1998

NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27,1998--The MathWorks, Inc. today announced that it is working with Delphi Delco Electronics Systems to define tools for vehicle production electronic control unit (ECU) development.

The two companies will jointly define new key features to add to The MathWorks MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow and Real-Time Workshop product family. In addition, The MathWorks will collaborate with Delphi Delco Electronics Systems' other software and hardware vendors to provide integration and address an 'end-to-end' development process. The two companies are initially exploring the following areas: OSEK compliance, fixed point math library definition, support for calibration data, design documentation and configuration management.

"We are excited to work with The MathWorks," says Tom Fuelle of the Open Systems Architecture group for Delphi Delco Electronics Systems. "Many of our internal and external customers already use their tools for control design, simulation, and rapid prototyping. Now, we plan to help influence these tools to evolve to better meet the needs for developing production ECUs." Delphi Delco Electronics Systems plans to actively participate as a beta test site for these new tools.

"Our tools have been used for rapid prototyping of algorithms for production ECUs for many years, as well as for parameter tuning, and analyzing and visualizing data," said Mike Dickens, director of marketing at The MathWorks. "We look forward to working with Delphi Delco Electronic Systems on their process, which encompasses requirements; analysis, design, development and validation; and production."

Jim Tung, chief market development officer at The MathWorks, said, "Working closely with leading customers is a key component of our business strategy for the automotive industry. We already have important and successful working relationships with manufacturers such as Ford, Toyota, and Mercedes-Benz, and we are pleased to work with a key automotive electronics supplier like Delphi Delco Electronics Systems."

About The MathWorks, Inc.

Established in 1984, The MathWorks, Inc., based in Natick, Mass., develops, markets and supports MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow, Real-Time Workshop, and a family of data analysis toolboxes for scientists, engineers, and technical professionals. MATLAB provides the foundation and computational engine for all of The MathWorks products. Widely recognized as the industry's premier language for technical computing, MATLAB provides comprehensive math and visualization functionality, specialized application toolboxes and a powerful high-level language for users to interactively explore, analyze, design and prototype solutions to their problems. Simulink is a graphical, block-diagram environment for modeling, analyzing and simulating a broad range of dynamic nonlinear systems. Stateflow works with Simulink to give users the ability to model and simulate the behavior of complex, reactive, event-driven systems based on finite state machine theory. Serving as the code generation engine, Real-Time Workshop allows the real-time execution of models from Simulink. The MathWorks products are used throughout the world in industries such as automotive, aerospace, environmental, telecommunications, computer peripherals, finance and medical. More than 400,000 users at the world's leading industrial, government and educational organizations rely on The MathWorks products for tremendous gains in productivity and flexibility.

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