A transputer-based parallel DSP environment

The traditional DSP design and development environment is generally based on the use of a single processor and suffers from a number of limitations including the following: a time-consuming design cycle from specification to the final product development; dependence on hardware and hence lack of portability to different DSP platforms; lack of exploitation of algorithmic and architectural parallelism for DSP design. The authors present a multiprocessor environment, called Taurus, for design and development of DSP algorithms and applications. The important features of such environment are introduced, and typical experimental results using an ADPCM system are presented and discussed