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- From: singer@maestoso.mit.edu (Andrew C Singer)
- Subject: Help on Tools for DSP Development
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- Organization: Digital Signal Processing Group, M.I.T. Research Lab for
- Electronics
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:25:23 GMT
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- I am looking for help in collecting information about a wide range of
- DSP development tools, both commercial and academic. Particularly, I
- am interested in tools that speed the process of turning signal
- processing ideas into real systems. By real system I mean dedicated
- hardware, such as a modem, not DSP cards for PCs. I can think
- immediately of the following classes of tools:
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- 1. Tools for algorithm development. These tools allow the algorithm
- designer to rapidly test alternative algorithms and to verify their
- performance on real data sets. The examples that jump to my mind are
- MATLAB and Nth Power. The issues in these types of tools is how fast
- they allow you to try out ideas, how much support do they have for
- generation of synthetic data sets, how easily can you analyze your
- algorithms, etc.
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- 2. Tools for signal processing software development. These tools
- allow you to specify your algorithm in "high level" signal processing
- language from which runtime code can be automatically generated. I do
- not mean C compilers for DSP chips.
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- 3. Tools for signal processing hardware development. Similar to
- software generation tools. These tools allow high level
- specifications to be turned into hardware descriptions. An example of
- such a tool is DSP Station from MENTOR. It can generate hardware
- descriptions for a set of signal processing operations.
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- I am especially interested in integrated tool sets, i.e., tools that
- do some combination of the above three tasks in an integrated
- framework.
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- I would appreciate any type of response:
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- * Here is the name of a vendor or a professor to contact
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- * I've used XYZ and it is great for ABC and poor for DEF
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- * Here is another whole class of tools you have missed
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- Since this is so open-ended please respond directly via email rather than
- flooding comp.dsp.
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- Thanks.
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