Autocoding: an enabling technology for rapid prototyping

Autocoding technology offers design aids and automatic code generation that reduce the cost of embedded signal processor design and eliminate hand code generation. This technology may be exploited in iterative design strategies that more closely couple prototyping and system development. Prototype designs may be rapidly generated and evaluated within the context of a design optimization strategy. Automated generation of production code from top level designs reduces software development costs. The productivity enhancements autocoding technology provides enables signal processor codesign iteration within practical program budgets. This paper describes the autocoding technology being developed by Management Communications and Control, Inc. (MCCI) and illustrates its use in an approach to software design optimization for an embedded signal processor target architecture