Re: Compiling for DSP chips

kuusama@news.funet.fi.tut.fi (Kuusama Juha)
Tue, 11 Sep 90 07:50:42 GMT

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From: kuusama@news.funet.fi.tut.fi (Kuusama Juha)
Keywords: C, optimize
Organization: Finnish University and Research Network FUNET
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 07:50:42 GMT

While it is true, that currently used HLL's do produce poor code for currently
used DSP processors, things are changing. I will not talk about code generators
that produce optimised code from filter specifications, flow graphs etc.,
altough I've seen several. But I like to point out:


In ICASSP-90 (International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing) K. Leary (form Analog Devices, Inc.) gave an exellent speech on
DSP/C: "DSP/C is a structured procedural programming language that solves
the problems of using C for DSP, while retaining the benefits of C." My
personal view is, that the claim may well prove to be true. DSP/C can, as
far as I see, be compiled to _optimimum_ code for the DSP processor, given
smart enough compiler. Have a look, the article is in the proceedings book 2.


(I can't resist: if the language will indeed be popular, why not call it 'D'?)
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Juha Kuusama, kuusama@korppi.tut.fi
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