Retargetable Code Generation for Digital Signal Processors

✍ Scribed by Rainer Leupers (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

According to market analysts, the market for consumer electronics will con­ tinue to grow at a rate higher than that of electronic systems in general. The consumer market can be characterized by rapidly growing complexities of appli­ cations and a rather short market window. As a result, more and more complex designs have to be completed in shrinking time frames. A key concept for coping with such stringent requirements is re-use. Since the re-use of completely fixed large hardware blocks is limited to subproblems of system-level applications (for example MPEG-2), flexible, programmable pro­ cessors are being used as building blocks for more and more designs. Processors provide a unique combination offeatures: they provide flexibility and re-use. The processors used in consumer electronics are, however, in many cases dif­ ferent from those that are used for screen and keyboard-based equipment, such as PCs. For the consumer market in particular, efficiency of the product plays a dominating role. Hence, processor architectures for these applications are usually highly-optimized and tailored towards a certain application domain.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-28
Processor Modelling....Pages 29-43
Instruction-Set Extraction....Pages 45-83
Code Generation....Pages 85-126
Instruction-Level Parallelism....Pages 127-178
The Record Compiler....Pages 179-189
Conclusions....Pages 191-193
Back Matter....Pages 195-210

✦ Subjects

Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Electrical Engineering; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems