The new release focuses on four strategic areas: improved
performance and expanded functionality, improved compatibility, enhanced
web publishing and new application development tools. On average, it is
five times faster than Mathcad 2000, depending on the type of
calculations.
Microsoft Office and Windows 2000 are fully supported, and the software
operates with most common desktop engineering tools, including Excel,
Visio 2000, AutoCAD 2000, MatLab 5 and 4 and any ODBC, SQL-supported
database such as Microsoft Access. The product comes with VisSim LE, a
simulation package that lets the user model, simulate and embed control,
communication and signal processing systems, seamlessly within Mathcad.
Real-time data acquisition for prototyping and testing with National
Instruments analogue I/O boards is also available.
The new web publishing features allow users to save worksheets in MathML
format and read MathML files back into Mathcad as active documents. Two
versions of the 2001 release are available: Professional and Premium,
plus a choice of multi-user and network licences.