NEW Silicon Graphics CASE TOOLS and INDY DESKTOP system create software development platform for the 90s

CASEVision/WorkShop 2.0, Powerful Development Modules and Indy DevStation Transform Software Development Through Visualization

Silicon Graphics, Inc. announced an enhanced CASEVision(tm)/WorkShop development environment that expands programmer productivity through an unparalleled visual paradigm based on the latest graphical technologies. Silicon Graphics also announced the Indy(tm) DevStation, an integrated software development platform combining the CASEVision environment with Indy, Silicon Graphics' new desktop system. The Indy DevStation enables Silicon Graphics to provide users with the industry's most powerful price / performance UNIX(r) software development solution.

The new software announcement includes WorkShop 2.0 and four optional WorkShop modules delivering such capabilities as advanced C++ support, a 3D array visualizer and the first complete multiprocessor development solution in a UNIX environment. The WorkShop 2.0 environment provides powerful visual analysis tools and seamless integration between a full suite of CASEVision products, while the new WorkShop modules radically reduce the programming complexities inherent to multiprocessing and object-oriented development.

"Silicon Graphics is committed to leading the technical CASE market with exceptional development tools that manage increasing software design complexities," said Way Ting, Silicon Graphic's general manager of the Visual Magic Division. "This new environment incorporates next- generation technology that substantially advances the way programmers develop software. The power of these tools, coupled with the unparalleled price and performance of the Indy DevStation, makes the Silicon Graphics CASE offering the industry's most complete, leading- edge software development solution."

Providing an optimal platform for the CASEVision environment, the Indy desktop system packs more interactive media, visual computing and workgroup collaboration capabilities into a PC-priced system than any other computer in history. The new Indy DevStation configuration includes a 340 MB disk, the IRIS(r) Development Option (IDO) suite of development libraries and ANSI C compiler and CASEVision/WorkShop.

Since its 1991 introduction, CASEVision has achieved rapid acceptance in the technical CASE field. CASEVision products are an integrated suite of tools designed to give programmers a productive edge by combining the power of visualization with advanced technological features with a highly intuitive interface. Built on an object-oriented architecture, the CASEVision environment encompasses Silicon Graphics and key third- party applications to offer a complete solution for the entire software development process. In addition to the WorkShop environment, CASEVision tools include ClearCase(tm), a sophisticated distributed toolset for version control and configuration management, and CASEVision/Tracker, a distributed, multi-user bug and flexible process tracking system.

The CASEVision/WorkShop core programming environment includes a Static Analyzer, a visual source-level Debugger, a Performance Analyzer and a Build Manager. Workshop 2.0 delivers six enhancements that resolve analysis and debugging challenges in all leading programming languages:

• Industry's first 3-D Array Visualizer simplifies the debugging of complex arrays and graphics programs by providing a powerful visual interface that displays errors and problems in large amounts of data
• Powerful expression evaluator that supports FORTRAN, C and C++ expressions
• Dynamic build and incremental linking for faster turnaround
• Enhanced Static Analyzer that features a compile mode providing extensive support for complex FORTRAN, C and C++ queries
• Increased Performance Analyzer functionality through a new task- oriented, intuitive user-interface that supports the analysis of specific performance queries
• Tighter integration with ClearCase, RCS and SCCS through the new Project View, which allows the user to easily manage multiple debugging and profiling sessions.

In addition, four leading-edge CASEVision modules are layered on WorkShop 2.0, further entrenching Silicon Graphics' visual development environment as the most complete and innovative in the industry. These modules can be ordered as a bundle with WorkShop 2.0, or can be added to an existing WorkShop 2.0 environment.

• CASEVision/WorkShop Pro C is an interpreter for C that integrates with the WorkShop debugger, supports all the debugger views, and promotes rapid development and fast turnaround
• CASEVision/WorkShop Pro C++ includes an interpreter for rapid development and fast turnaround, a class browser, the Delta/C++ native compiler that provides flexible shared library updating, Smart Build functionality for faster builds and the ViewKit object-oriented application framework for Motif user interface development.
• CASEVision/WorkShop Pro MPF, the industry's only visual parallel analyzer, runs on any Silicon Graphics' system and is tightly integrated into the WorkShop performance analyzer to support code that has been parallelized with the POWER FORTRAN analyzer.
• CASEVision/WorkShop Tester is a suite of graphical Coverage Analysis tools that determine the efficacy of the software test suites and identify areas of insufficient coverage

WorkShop 2.0 and the new modules are designed to address the needs of Silicon Graphics' most demanding customers. "Industrial Light and Magic is on the cutting edge of the special effects industry, so we need software tools that also push the envelope of technology," said Michael Natkin, software projects manager of Industrial Light and Magic. "WorkShop's tools let us stay on top of our most advanced software developments. The new Pro C++ module, for instance, allows us to immediately see the effects of changes to C++ class structures, greatly increasing our productivity."

CASEVision supports Silicon Graphics' full range of binary-compatible RISC workstations -- from the Indy desktop system to the Onyx(tm) graphical supercomputers and Challenge(tm) multiprocessing supercomputing servers.