Subject-Oriented Software Development System for DSP

Data acquisition for real-time applications on a DSP board is an engineering challenge. Currently DSP engineers can take up to one and a half years to develop a Visual C++ program. End users with limited programming skills cannot take advantage of the strength of DSP functionality, while DSP programmers cannot satisfy the time-to-market requirements of their customers. Data Translation has resolved this dilemma by creating its own DSP subject-oriented software development system. This system lets users access sophisticated DSP algorithms from the standard Windows® world. This means that users without in depth DSP programming knowledge can access the power of real-time DSP. This system is based on two major components – a subject-oriented DSP operating system and a patent-pending Windows-based rapid software development system. The subject-oriented DSP software development system uses techniques of aspect-oriented programming and gives maximum flexibility because of its purely task-based orientation. A user does not have to have programming skills. The system simply uses standard Windows drag and drop mechanisms. One graphical user interface can be used to develop Windows and DSP applications.