FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New version 7.0 of VisSim™ is now shipping.


Westford, Massachusetts, January 28, 2008 - Visual Solutions Incorporated (VSI) announces the immediate availability of VisSim Version 7.0 for Windows ME/2000/XP/Vista.

VisSim Version 7.0 adds a 3D plot engine, 3D Animation engine, and VRML reader, new matrix block operations, VisSim Matrix Language, a new set of random distributions along with an improved simulation engine, and enhanced user interface. The new 3D plot block supports interactive 3D plotting of a single trajectory, surface motion, or waterfall frequency displays. The 3D animation engine is built on the Microsoft DirectX core. It supports VisSim driven animated scenes. The user can manipulate the view location and angle via mouse actions. The VRML block allows selection of objects within the VRML scene for VisSim control. Standard DirectX ".x" files can be imported as meshes to be displayed and manipulated in the 3D Animation block.
The new random distribution blocks include: beta, cauchy, erlang, gamma, pareto, rayleigh, triangular, and weibull. These distributions are useful in modeling commonly found system behavior and failure rates.
The VisSim Matrix Language supports text based processing of matrix expressions including: cos, diag, eye, exp, inv,  log, log10, min, max, ones, rand, sqrt, sum, sin, reshape, zeros
as well as standard arithmetic operations.

The new timeStamp block produces a user formatted text string of the current date and time. The export and import blocks have been improved to create and read .csv file format and accept macro expansion in the file name, which can automatically create unique file names on each run of a diagram execution. The export block allows larger header text, allows a date/time stamp per row, and gives an option for data column alignment. The import block now understands hex number format. V7.0 brings an improved and updated user interface with updated more legible toolbar icons and additional menu shortcuts, as well as a new option to allow custom colors on compound blocks.
Edit preference options allow automatic reload of the last edited diagram, and setting of an autosave interval. The VisSim Diagram Explorer Window view into the VisSim menu hierarchy is now preserved across file opens. This makes it convenient to insert blocks from deeply nested menu trees.
New matrix blocks  include:

 

Trial versions of the VisSim 7.0 software, tutorials and marketing information are available free from the Visual Solutions web site: www.vissim.com.

 

About Visual Solutions
 Since 1989, Visual Solutions (VSI) has been a pioneer in the development of Windows-based software for the modeling and simulation of dynamic systems. Their mission is to provide easy-to-use, powerful and affordable modeling, simulation and embedded system design software.

VisSim is the winner of Electronic Design News Magazine's Hot 100 New Technologies. VisSim software is much easier to use and offers faster simulation speeds than competitive products. Additionally, VisSim includes the unique VisSim Viewer™, a run-time, view-only version of VisSim that enables users to distribute models at no charge.

For more information contact:

Jim Webb
 Sales Manager
 Phone: 978 392-0100 ext.18
 Fax: 978 692-3102
 Email: jim.webb@vissol.com