THE DSP-C EXTENSION TO C

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“THE DSP-C EXTENSION TO C”

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under the guidance of

Mr. R.K. Shial
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Bijay Kumar Tripathy CS200117244

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THE DSP-C EXTENSION TO C
Introduction

• DSP-C offers DSP developers the opportunity to write

their application in a portable manner. DSP-C is a
language extension to C that provides the programmer
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with direct access to performance enhancing features in

DSP processors.

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The Glory of DSP-C Emulation

• DSP-C emulation allows you to develop, test and debug the

DSP application algorithms on your PC or workstation without
having access to the actual processor.
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• DSP-C emulation simplifies the design flow significantly,

reducing both the headaches associated with maintaining two
sets of code.

• It also increases market opportunity by reducing development

time.

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Typical DSP Architecture
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• DSP processors have a highly specialized architecture to

achieve the performance requirements for signal processing
applications within the limits of cost and power consumption
set for consumer applications.
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• Unlike a conventional Load-Store (RISC) architecture, DSP

processors have a data path with memory access units.

• A further specialization of the data path is the coupling of

multiplication and addition to form a single cycle multiply-
Accumulate MAC unit

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DSP-C FEATURES

• Arithmetic Features
• Multiple Memories
• Circular Buffers
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• Portability
• Implementation

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Arithmetic Features

• The fixed Type :-The fixed type offers fixed point

arithmetic in the range of [-1.0, +1.0> (-1.0 included but
not +1.0).
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• The accum Type :-The accum is also a fixed point type

and can also be qualified with short and long.

• The sat Qualifier:- It makes that all operations with

operands of sat qualified type are saturated.

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• The unsigned Qualifier :-The unsigned qualifier can

also be applied to the fixed point types.
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• Arithmetic Operations :-The arithmetic operations for

fixed and accum include all those defined for the int type,
but exclude <<, >>, ~, &, | and ^.

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Portability

• By design, a DSP-C implementation is adapted to the

processor for which it is implemented.
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• The portability of DSP-C programs is not always

guaranteed.

• As not all processors are equal, not all DSP-C

implementations can be equal.

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Multiple Memories

• Multiple memory access is implemented as type

qualifiers.
• There are no predefined keywords for this, as the actual
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memory segmentation is left to the implementation.

• As an example, assume that X is a memory qualifier.
The definition:
__X int a[25] ;
Means that a is an array of 25 integers which is located
in the X memory.

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Implementation

• DSP-C should consider providing a specification of how

the language features are best used to achieve the
highest performance.
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• The implementation might also consider that some parts

of DSP-C cannot be implemented at all without
significant performance overheads.

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THE FUTURE OF DSP-C

• Embedded C :-
Embedded C differs from DSP-C on
details, but it fully subscribes to its design rationale. It
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bridges the gap between the signal processing

application, plain C, and signal processing hardware,
instead of introducing abstract notions that have no
counterpart in the processor. Embedded C is important
because it guarantees portability of important common
performance enhancing features of DSP processors

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CONCLUSION

• DSP-C is a relatively small extension to the C language,

but its impact on the programmability of DSP processors
is enormous. Specialized high performance features are
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the reasons why DSP processors exist. The DSP-C

approach will become the standard solution for high level
language programming of the many billions of DSP
processors out in the field.

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THANK YOU!!!

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