Programming the Sandbridge Multithreaded Processor

Programmer productivity is a major concern in the development of complex DSP and SDR applications. As most classical DSPs are programmed in assembly language, it takes a large software effort to develop an application. For modern speech coders it may take up to nine months or more before the application performance is known. Then, an intensive period of design verification ensues. This extended period of development and verification can be minimized if a user-friendly software tool chain capable for generating efficient code for the DSP processor [4] for applications written in C were to be available. Sandbridge Technologies software tool chain is a very user-friendly tool chain, capable of generating highly efficient object code for out of the box C code, and simulating the code on an ultra fast simulation environment. This tool chain provides significant advantages in software productivity.