C/C++ compiler support for Siemens TriCore DSP instruction set

Author

Shi, Hao ; Arnold, Roger ; Westerholz, Karl

Author_Institution

Siemens Microelectron. Inc., San Jose, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

15-19 Mar 1999

Firstpage

2147

Abstract

How to make compilers more useful for developing DSP applications and reduce reliance on assembly coding has long been a topic of interest in the DSP community. This paper presents Siemens solutions for supporting its TriCore DSP/microcontroller architecture, including SIMD instructions, at the C/C++ level. Two solutions based on either extending C/C++ language with the new built-in DSP data types or developing an external DSP class library are investigated. First cut implementations of both methods have achieved 80% coverage of the TriCore instruction set, which is 30 percent higher than the coverage before DSP support was added

Keywords

C language; C++ language; digital signal processing chips; instruction sets; microcontrollers; parallel architectures; program compilers; C/C++ compiler support; C/C++ language; DSP applications; DSP class library; DSP data types; SIMD instructions; Siemens TriCore DSP instruction set; TriCore DSP/microcontroller architecture; Assembly; Buffer storage; Costs; Digital arithmetic; Digital filters; Digital signal processing; Libraries; Microcontrollers; Microelectronics; Programming profession;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1999. Proceedings., 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5041-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1999.758359

Filename

758359