henry@amstel.ee.ufl.edu (Henry A. Gancedo) (12/09/90)
If your looking for exceptional DSP software for PCs look for MONARCH software. I've seen a pre-release version of Version 2.0 and it looks quite impressive. You get digital filter design along with something the other PC-DSP software packages don't have, it has an integrated MATLAB clone which can be used to create signals, simulate filters, perform analysis, develop algorithms, etc. All of the graphics are clean and comprehensive. Zooming and "find-the-nearest-point" features are also included. There's something else about the filter design that's innovative, MONARCH has the ability to design filters from a pole-zero description, a transfer function, or a state-variable description in addition to the regular FIR and IIR design methods. And get this, you can take a design and flip between the three methods. One more thing, you have a choice of 6 different architectures for your filters (e.g. cascaded, parallel, ladder, etc...). MONARCH is sold by The Athena Group, Inc. I don't have their address but I do have their phone number : (904)371-2567. Since I'll be receiving the package soon, I'll try to post another letter with more details soon. Regards, Henry Gancedo UF