A Rapid Prototyping Environment for Multi-DSP Systems based on Accurate Performance Prediction

A new approach to model communication for mapping and scheduling DSP-applications

We present a novel approach to model inter-processor communication in multi-DSP systems. In most multi-DSP systems, inter-processor communication is realized by transferring data over point-to-point links with hardware FIFO bu ers. Direct memory access (DMA) is additionally used to concurrently transfer data to the FIFO bu ers and perform computation. Our model accounts for the limited size of ...

Dataflow-Based Rapid Prototyping for Multicore DSP Systems

FPGA-based Prototyping of IEEE 802.11a Baseband Processor

Abstract: In technical literature and especially in domestic, predominant way to examine performance of 802.11a-based systems are experiments in simulations. In this paper, we present FPGA based 802.11a prototype, which gave us a possibility to gain closer insight into the problems of OFDM system implementation. A specific design of baseband modem physical layer is discussed, along with the pre...

PROTOTYPING EMBEDDED DSP SYSTEMS − FROM SPECIFICATION TO IMPLEMENTATION (ThuPmOR3)

When embedding DSP systems, a designer must meet not only functional but also many other requirements, such as low resource requirements, real−time constraints and low power consumption. The design flow used in prototyping such systems usually includes high−level languages for specification capture and then involves a number of tradi−tional steps until the system is synthesized. Those steps oft...

Rapid prototyping with the visual data environment of an OFDM WLAN System

In this paper a rapid prototyping design flow is presented and applied to a prototype of the base-band physical layer of a Hiperlan/2 WLAN transceiver. This physical layer is a high performance multi-rate system that contains computationally intensive algorithms. A new method for prototyping the design flow and verifying the process is to use the latest generation of system level design environ...