(8.D.2.6) Overview
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AWE Designer is a Windows-based, graphical IDE for the AWE Core™ embedded processing engine. AWE Designer is used to easily design, debug, and tune audio processing flows in real time. Unlike other graphical tools, Audio Weaver does not generate code; instead, it generates run-time configurations for the data-driven AWE Core. Using a palette of over 400 optimized processing modules, complex audio processing chains can be quickly designed, run, profiled and tuned on hardware without writing any DSP software.
Audio Weaver Editions
Audio Weaver comes in two different editions: Standard Edition and Pro Edition. Standard Edition runs as a stand-alone application, while Pro runs as an application launched from MATLAB. The editions differ in the stand-alone editions of AWE Designer require the MATLAB Compiler Runtime (MCR), which will be downloaded during the install process. The Pro edition requires that the user have an installed version of MATLAB (version R2021b or later).
The summary of features available for the two different editions of Audio Weaver are listed in the table below.
 | Standard | Pro |
|---|---|---|
Graphical Interface | ✓ | ✓ |
Real-time Tuning | ✓ | ✓ |
Native PC Simulation | ✓ | ✓ |
Flash File Management | ✓ | ✓ |
Accurate Profiling | ✓ | ✓ |
Realtime Waveform Debug | ✓ | ✓ |
Hierarchical Systems | ✓ | ✓ |
Create and Share Reusable Subystems (RUS/CRUS) | ✓ | ✓ |
Create Custom User Inspectors for Subsystems | ✓ | ✓ |
Over 500 Modules, Including Voice and Machine Learning | ✓ | ✓ |
Save Layouts as Diffable Text Format (AWJ) | ✓ | ✓ |
Use Custom Interpreted Modules | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi-Rate and Multi-Instance Support | ✓ | ✓ |
3rd Party IP | ✓ | ✓ |
Configure any version of AWECore | ✓ | ✓ |
Per Module Profiling | ✓ | ✓ |
Point to Point layout measurements | ✓ | ✓ |
Rapid Audio File Processing | ✓ | ✓ |
Attach to Running Targets | ✓ | ✓ |
Regression Testing Scripts | ✓ | ✓ |
Requires MATLAB |  | ✓ |
MATLAB Scripting Automation Support |  | ✓ |
Create Custom Interpreted Modules |  | ✓ |
Create Custom Modules |  | ✓ |
Each edition of Audio Weaver has an associated license type. Once an account has been created on the DSP Concepts website, users can acquire evaluation licenses for Audio Weaver by request. For questions or purchase information for both evaluation and non-evaluation licenses, please contact info@dspconcepts.com.
Additional Documentation
The AWE Designer User Guide describes the features and usage of the Audio Weaver Design graphical tool. For documentation regarding other parts of the Audio Weaver ecosystem, see the following pages:
Note: PDF versions of the AWE Designer User Guide and additional documentation are available in the ‘Docs’ folder of the Audio Weaver installation.
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