System Maximizer v. 1.1.5 Release Notes

Version 1.1.5 adds the following bug fixes and improvements over version 1.1.4

Bug Fixes / Improvements

• added the following functions :
  • dualTimePlot : fixed vertical cursor measurement for channel B when resizing windows
  • Pulse : changed parameter name from offset to sample_offset for better clarity

This version is recommended for all users of System Maximizer version 1.1.4

Quick Frame Sequencer v. 1.0.0 Released

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Quick Frame Sequencer (QFS) is Optunis is pleased to announce the release of Quick Frame Sequencer (QFS) 1.0. QFS makes crisp, sharp, QuickTime videos from your still images and movies.

You can use QFS to create :

• web presentations
• animated sequences
• multimedia tutorials combining still images, audio, and video

With QFS, you take still images, sound, and other QuickTime videos and combine them into a QuickTime movie. You can create slideshows, with transitions, and a separate audio component for each slide, or stitch together frames to make an animated movie. You may reorder your frames in any way you like, add foreground and background components to each slide, and let each give each slide it's own duration.

Chroma Keys v. 1.0.2 Release Notes

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• new ways to import an image
• dragging and dropping the image into the ChromaKeys window
• dragging and dropping an image file into the ChromaKeys window
• copying the image and pasting it into the ChromaKeys window
• new toolbar button allows you to export the masked image to the clipboard
• export file type now automatically adds TIFF extension (previously, users had to add TIFF extension manually to the filename)

• these original transparent areas may not be made opaque in ChromaKeys (as there is no original information).
• when viewing the original image or original image + mask, these transparent areas will be marked as black
• when viewing the masked image, these transparent areas will be marked with the background color (default is bright green)

Image Effects Trees v. 1.0.1 Released

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• Drag + Drop supports images and files
  You may now drag and drop images or files directing into the effects view or the image tree view. Dropping an items into the effects view will set the view to that item.
• Paste images
  Images may be pasted an IET document. An element for a source image will appear in the effects tree, and the effects view will be set to the pasted image.
• Printing Support
  You may now print both the image tree view or the effects view. There are 2 items in the toolbar (print tree, and print image) which prints the respective view.
  
• Bug Fix : synchronized shift (X) and shift (Y) stepper with slider when first displaying affine transform

Image Effects Trees v. 1.0.0 Released

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Image Effect Trees (IET) is a new, powerful, image editing program which unlocks the power of Apple's Core Image technology. With IET, you create image sources, and connect them to effects. You can connect the effects and sources to other effects, creating can image effect tree. Your originals are preserved. There is a visual diagram of all your modifications. You can quickly identify where the best quality image resides in your processing chain, allowing you to extract optimal results.

FIR HDL Writer v. 0.9.0 Beta Released

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FIR Designer is Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool used to generate clear text synthesizable Verilog Register Transfer Level (RTL) code to make FIR filters and testbenches. Design options include multiple channels, coefficient sets, and resource utilization specifications (for FPGAs).

The designs are fully synchronous and registered to provide maximum clock frequencies. Clock rates in excess of 300Mhz have been measured Stratix III and Virtex 5 FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) (using Quartus and ISE synthesis and place and route tools).

Chroma Keys v. 1.0.1 Release Notes

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Version 1.0.1 provides the following bug fixes and enhancements over version 1.0.0 :

• During evaluation, the ChromaKeys license manager only appears once during startup
• Getting Started document appears in installation directory
• Color keys may be modified (ie: tolerance increased or decreased) after they are set
• Only image files are displayed when attempting to import an image
  (previously, all files were displayed)
• minor updates to tooltips
• Release Notes are now incorporated into the help subsystem
• Better undo/redo support (undo/redo possible when the tools or clear color keys is the key window)

ChromaKeys released by Optunis Imaging

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• Quick, Easy, and Powerful Image Masking
• Chroma keys may be used for a variety of purposes including :
  • background removal for photographs
  • general purpose image masking
  • icon generation
  • cutting out portions of an image
  • creating irregular shaped images
• Key features include :
  • Quickly and easily create a single or multiple chroma keys
  • Define opaque and clear areas
  • Imports a variety of formats
  • Universal Binary

2D Data Visualizer Pro Released

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• Allows for centering, or right positioning of X Axis labels.
• Remembers last saved window dimensions when saving files.
• Checks for version updates on the optunis web site at startup.
• Fixed bug loading user settings on previously saved files.
• converts all color spaces to calibrated RGB when saving files.

This version is recommended for all users of 2D Data Visualizer Pro version 1.0.0 and 1.0.1

2D Data Visualizer Pro Released

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• Fixed bug displaying line plots on certain Intel Macintoshes
• Quit without saving changes message appears on main plot window

2D Data Visualizer Pro Released

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• Quick, Easy, Fast, Beautiful 2D Plots
• Import Data from Word, RTF, or ASCII text files
• Several Styles to choose from (line, stem, stairs, x-y line, scatter)
• Annotate your plot - add lines, circles, text to describe your plot
• Use cursors take measurements
• Animate your plots and generate QuickTime movies
• Export your plots to TIFF and PDF files
• Import PDF's of your LaTex equations
• Add your own comments to the individual data sets or to the entire plot
• transpose your data (swap rows and columns)
• add your own labels and grid settings
• much more ...

This version is recommended for all users of 3D Data Visualizer Pro version 1.0.6

3D Data Visualizer Pro v. 1.0.7 Release Notes

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Version 1.0.7 adds the following improvements and bug fixes for v1.0.6

• More control over Title and labels (X, Y, and Z axis labels)
  • Unicode Support - special characters, greek symbols, multiple languages
  • Multiple Fonts, and Sizes
  • Lock label color to grid color, or choose your own color

This version is recommended for all users of 3D Data Visualizer Pro version 1.0.6

3D Data Visualizer Pro v. 1.0.6 Release Notes

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Version 1.0.6 adds the following improvements and bug fixes for v1.0.5

• Animation now available for all plots
  • specify a column in the data as the frame count column
  • set the desired frames per second
  • specify a resolution(ie: 640 x 480)
  • export a QuickTime movie of the animation
  • Quickly navigate to any desired frame in the animation
• New Vector Plots
  • plot vectors from origin
  • plot vectors from an offset
  • cartesian, cylindrical, or spherical coordinate systems
  • degrees or radians (for cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems)
• Additional textures
  • cobblestones
  • 3 types of marble (white, green, yellow)
  • brick wall
  • round stone walls
  • stone slabs
  • light wood
  • ... and more ...
• Specify an exact resolution for the graph (ie: 256 x 256)
• Specify line thickness and point size for line and scatter plots.
• User Guide is now available and included in the installation package

This version is recommended for all users of 3D Data Visualizer Pro version 1.0.5

Academic Licensing Now Available - Web Site Update

An Academic Bundle featuring System Maximizer Premier and FIR Coefficient Finder Pro is now available.

This bundle presents a significant discount for academic (non-comercial) users our software.

In order to take advantage of this offer, you must first register as an academic user here.
After your registration is processed, and you've place an academic order you will be emailed a single user academic license.

System Maximizer v. 1.1.4 Release Notes

Version 1.1.4 adds the following bug fixes and improvements over version 1.1.3

Bug Fixes / Improvements

• New Components
  Adaptive LMS FIR Filter
  This component uses the Least Mean Square Algorithm to adapt the coefficients of a FIR filter.
  Leaky Adaptive LMS FIR Filter
  This component is similar to the Adaptive LMS FIR Filter, but brings the convergence constant to an input port, and includes a leakage factor (between 0 and 1.0) for increased stability
  
• added the following functions :
  • round
  • integer
  • saturate
  • dead zone zero
  • dead zone non-zero
  • hysteresis functions
  • splitBits - splits bits apart
  • mergeBits - combines bits together
• updated freqPlot paper tape output with delimitter before phase

This version is recommended for all users of System Maximizer version 1.1.3

3D Data Visualizer Pro - Web Site Update

Added a page to describe how height based colors, and user defined color maps work

Updated 3D Data Visualizer Screen Shots to include color map examples, and the color map inspector.

3D Data Visualizer Pro User Guide (preliminary) is now available for download in .PDF format.

3D Data Visualizer Pro v. 1.0.5 Release Notes

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Version 1.0.5 adds the following improvements and bug fixes for v1.0.4

• user definable color maps for plots using height based color (surface/mesh, scatter)
  • color map viewer/loader
    • graph showing R, G, and B values vs color index
    • table of R, G, and B values, and sample color for each index
  • several sample color maps included
    heat, cold, fluid, hue, spectrum, xray, etc.
  • define your own color map with a simple table using TextEdit or any text editor
• Bug Fix - In version 1.0.4, image textures may not appear when using a PowerMac G5 and certain Nvidia graphics cards. This bug is fixed in version 1.0.5.

This version is recommended for all users of 3D Data Visualizer Pro version 1.0.4

3D Data Visualizer Pro v. 1.0.4 Release Notes

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Version 1.0.4 adds the following improvements and bug fixes for v1.0.3

• Texture map an image to a surface (mesh) plot
• Specify the color of a data point based upon the z value (mesh/surface, and scatter plots)
  • several color schemes available, including
    • hues and reverse hues
    • black to white, and white to black
    • custom color patterns
  • map values to color schemes via
    • minimum and maximum on the graph scale
    • minimum and maximum data values of the plot
    • user specified absolute z-values
• Texture map an image to a reference z plane. The reference z-plane is now movable to any user specified location
• Specify the specular and shininess parameters for a surface.

This version is recommended for all users of 3D Data Visualizer Pro version 1.0.3

System Maximizer v. 1.1.3 Release Notes

Version 1.1.3 adds the following bug fixes and improvements over version 1.1.2

Bug Fixes / Improvements

• added new elements
  IIR Reg where the first feed-forward coefficient is exactly zero, resulting in a fully registered IIR component. This avoids possible combinatorial feedback loops.
  gaussian provides a source of random data with a guassian (normal) distribution. Specify the mean and standard deviation.
  signal stats is a new sink which calculates minimum, maximum, mean, variance, and standard deviation.
• Added printing, and image export to the following components
  • scope panel
  • dual scope panel
  • freq plot
  • xy plot
  • xy sel plot
  • polar plot
  • polar sel plot
• added autoscaling to :
  • xy plot
  • xy sel plot
  • polar plot
  • polar sel plot
• updated transcendental functions to include abs and sqrt. The transc_func element now allows for :
  sin, cos, tan, sinc, asin, acos, atan, ln, log2, log10, exp, pow2, pow10, abs, sqrt
• fixed display bug which showed incorrect min and max values for scopePanel and dualScopePanel
• updated and fixed bugs in parameter entry dialogs
• fixed bug with copy when nothing is selected

This version is recommended for all users of System Maximizer version 1.1.2

3D Data Visualizer Pro v. 1.0.3 Release Notes

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Version 1.0.3 adds the following improvements and bug fixes for v1.0.2

• OpenGL lighting did not display correctly on the MacPro (with NVidia Graphics cards) and the new 24 inch iMac. This is fixed in version 1.0.3.
• improved surface texture and reflectance
• allow for input up to 16 million characters per line of ASCII text data. (At 16 characters per column, this works out to about a million columns).

This version is recommended for all users of 3D Data Visualizer Pro version 1.0.2

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System Maximizer v. 1.1.2 Release Notes

Version 1.1.2 adds the following bug fixes and improvements over version 1.1.1

Bug Fixes / Improvements

• Fixed bug with relative paths in non-hierarchical designs
• Fixed bug where design rule errors and warnings did not appropriately appear
• Fixed bug with application crash
• fixed UI bug changing parameter values, where occasionally, the value got stuck
• added new component IIR Registered
  (IIR filter where a0 == 0, all paths are fully registered)
• added installation utility

This version is recommended for all users of System Maximizer version 1.1.1

3D Data Visualizer Pro v. 1.0.2 Release Notes

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Version 1.0.2 adds the following bug fixes for version 1.0.1

Version 1.0.1 of the 3D Data Visualizer Pro introduced a bug which did not produce TIFF or PDF files. Version 1.0.2 fixes this bug.

This version is recommended for all users of 3D Data Visualizer Pro version 1.0.1

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October 23,2006 -

3D Data Visualizer Pro 1.0.1 Released

Version 1.0.1 adds the following improvements and bug fixes over version 1.0.0a and 1.0.0

• Multiple Plots per Chart
  • ability to add a plot to existing chart or figure
  • replace last plot with new data set
  • delete plots from a chart or figure
• Save To Quicktime Movie
• Better Undo support
  • Undo adding, deleting, replacing plots
  • Undo remembers last time colorwell was switched or turned off

FIR Coefficient Finder 1.0.1 released

FIR Coefficient Finder is a digital signal processing tool which quickly generates floating point and fixed point coefficients for Finite Impulse Response filters. Version 1.0.1 adds the following improvements and bug fixes over version 1.0.0

• bug fix to prevent application crashing under certain conditions
• added installation program
• added feedback request link
• updated licensing setup

3D Data Visualizer Pro 1.0.0a Released

3D Data Visualizer Pro 1.0 Released

• Area Plots with Transparency Control
  Area plots are similar to multi-line plots, but the area underneath is filled in.
  You may set the transparency level of all the areas, and choose the individual color of each area.
  
  
• Transpose Your Data Sets - swap rows for columns when loading in your data.
  
  
• Undo / Redo your chart settings
  All user actions which don't continuously change the control values may be undone.
  
  
• Save and Restore your Plots and User Settings
  
  
• Print, Export Images, and PDF's of your charts
  Click on the manual rotation button to select a rotation, and export a TIFF image of your data, or generate a PDF. You can then import this file into Word, PowerPoint or Keynote, to display your 3D graph.
  
  
• Background Color Specification
  white, black, grey, pink, whatever color your heart desires...