Title :
A dedicated DSP computation engine based on VLSI vector signal processors
Author :
Frenkel, M. ; Vildenberg, E. ; Retter, R. ; Shpancer, I.
Author_Institution :
Zoran Microelectron. Ltd., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
A computation engine (V8) based on eight VLSI vector signal processors (ZSP-322) was developed for dedicated DSP (digital signal processing) applications in areas such as nonparametric spectral estimation, beamforming, Doppler, etc. A design methodology and a set of tools were implemented and tested, facilitating multiprocessor algorithm development and hardware implementation. A novel scheme for assessment of the noise model of a complete system is reported. Multi-V8 implementation schemes for enhanced performance, such as pipelining, computation wave, and interleaving, are discussed and mapped to a quantitative performance space. The internal details of the ZSP-322 device are provided
Keywords :
VLSI; digital signal processing chips; Doppler; V8; VLSI vector signal processors; ZSP-322; beamforming; computation wave; dedicated DSP computation engine; digital signal processing; hardware implementation; interleaving; multiprocessor algorithm development; noise model; nonparametric spectral estimation; pipelining; tools; Array signal processing; Design methodology; Digital signal processing; Engines; Hardware; Pipeline processing; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; Testing; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1989. ICASSP-89., 1989 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Glasgow
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1989.266991
