Stardraw Control supports Cirrus Logic's CobraNet Technology

Stardraw.com is pleased to announce that it has incorporated support for Cirrus Logic Inc's (Nasdaq: CRUS) CobraNet™ technology into their new, award-winning application, Stardraw Control.

Stardraw Control is a software-based solution designed expressly to control systems that contain diverse products. It generates standalone, customized control programs that can manage and monitor any type of addressable equipment from any manufacturer using any protocol over any communications infrastructure. This approach frees systems integrators from closed or proprietary architectures and applications, offering instead the ability to create a single application that can control many different products with as much or as little complexity as the end user needs.

Cirrus Logic's CobraNet technology is a leading standard for delivering uncompressed digital audio and control data over Ethernet networks. By supporting the CobraNet protocol deployed on Cirrus Logic's ‘CobraNet Silicon Series' ICs, Stardraw Control can add significant value to integrators and contractors implementing CobraNet networks. The ease of use, intuitive design and solid functionality of the Stardraw Control application will be another enhancement to the growing comprehensiveness of the CobraNet total solution.

David Parker, Cirrus Logic's senior marketing manager for CobraNet products is enthusiastic about the development. "For a long time, systems integrators have been waiting for a total system control solution through a single application that's easy to configure and operate," said Parker. "With Stardraw Control's software, manufacturers will now find it easier and more cost effective than ever to develop simple, flexible, and powerful digital audio network systems that leverage the digital audio networking technology found within Cirrus Logic's CobraNet interface processor ICs.

CobraNet technology is available through the CobraNet Silicon Series of ICs from Cirrus Logic, which include the CS1810xx family of CobraNet interface processor ICs as well as the new CS4961xx family of ICs that feature the CobraNet interface processor plus a powerful customer programmable 32-bit, fixed point, audio DSP core.

Like other Stardraw applications, Stardraw Control is fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use; with a drag-drop interface and intuitive design environment, installers are able to configure systems and control them without having to write a single line of code. Generated control programs are portable and can run on any Windows-enabled device, from PC to PDA, or Mac, Linux and more. Stardraw Control can communicate with and control any device using any protocol including TCP/IP, RS232, DMX, IR, EtherSound, infra-red, UDP, SNMP, QSControl.Net and CobraNet.

For more information on Stardraw Control and the products currently supported, please visit www.stardraw.com/products/stardrawcontrol

Notes to Editor

Since 1995 Stardraw.com has been a leading provider of software solutions to the entertainment technology sector, offering a range of award-winning system design, documentation and control applications as well as providing OEM software solutions for corporate customers. With offices in London and New York, regional partners and an installed customer base of almost 30,000 users spanning 82 countries, Stardraw.com is focussed on serving the international marketplace, and delivers leading-edge solutions that exploit the very latest in software technologies.

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