Very long instruction word architectures for digital signal processing

Author

Mellott, Jonathon D. ; Taylor, Fred

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

21-24 Apr 1997

Firstpage

583

Abstract

Due to advancements in semiconductor processing technology, unprecedented levels of system integration are now possible in digital signal processing systems. MIMD/multicomputer architectures used for parallel digital signal processing applications are not always efficient, and are difficult to program. Very long instruction word processors are uniquely suited to digital signal processing applications, able to exploit opportunities for fine and coarse grained parallelism efficiently without the overhead of MIMD/multicomputer approaches. A flexible, high level language programming environment has been developed in support of this processor paradigm

Keywords

parallel architectures; parallel languages; parallel machines; parallel programming; signal processing; MIMD; coarse grained parallelism; high level language programming environment; multicomputer architectures; parallel digital signal processing applications; processor paradigm; semiconductor processing technology; system integration; very long instruction word architectures; Application software; Circuits; Computer architecture; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processing chips; Hardware; Parallel processing; Signal processing; Signal processing algorithms; VLIW;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1997. ICASSP-97., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7919-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1997.599835

Filename

599835