ACE Launches DSP Community Web Site to Promote Knowledge and Endorsement of the DSP-C Programming Language; www.dsp-c.org Site Dedicated Solely to DSP-C.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Communications Design Conference 2002 SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2002 As a strategically instrumental developer of the DSP-C language extensions for high-level DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive programming, ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv announced today that it has launched a web site devoted to educating and promoting use of DSP-C. www.dsp-c.org will initially provide the DSP-C specification, news and events, industry support updates, and comparisons and descriptions for the DSP programming language options. As use of DSP-C continues to grow, the site will expand to include information about the process of the International Standards Organization See ISO. (ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. ) to include the DSP-C specification in the evolving C standard. In addition to ACE, users and initial industry supporters for the DSP-C language extensions include Adelante Technologies, Atair Software, Ericsson, Japan Novel, Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. Corporation, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , NullStone, Philips Semiconductors, Siroyan and Toshiba. DSP-C extends the standard C-programming language with basic data types that are typically used in Digital Signal Processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). algorithms. Compared to standard C, DSP-C enhanced compilers have demonstrated to dramatically improve the efficiency of the generated code, thus removing the necessity of programming time-critical DSP algorithms in assembly. The DSP-C extensions include support for the following key DSP features: -- Fixed-point data types that vary both in size and support of guard bits and saturation --- Flexible memory subsystems -- Circular buffer capability In addition to the technical benefits, DSP-C enables DSP developers to write their applications in a more readable, maintainable and portable manner. Regardless of the architecture being used today, code can be recompiled for a different processor in the future. Developers can preserve their investment for their next generation product with minimal work. Furthermore, DSP-C allows the compiler to generate truly efficient DSP code, as it has all necessary information available. ACE has worked closely with DSP industry experts to develop the high-level DSP-C language extensions and aid developers in portability and efficiency for compiler development. The DSP-C extensions have received great adoption and are currently awaiting standards approval by the International Standards Organization (ISO). ACE has also announced an agreement with Mentor Graphics to further integrate the XRAY(R) Debugger and DWARF extensions with ACE's CoSy compiler development system to the DSP-C language according to the proposed standard. Availability www.dsp-c.org is currently live. Those who would like to subscribe to an opt-in list for future updates can do so by sending a message to info@dsp-c.org. About ACE ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv (a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of ACE Associated Computer Experts bv, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is a world leader in the production of compiler development tools. Its open CoSy compiler development system gives compiler developers the ability to achieve a similar leading edge position in the construction of better and faster optimizing compilers for architectures ranging from 4-bit DSPs to 256-bit VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) A CPU architecture that reads a group of instructions and executes them at the same time. For example, the group (word) might contain four instructions, and the compiler ensures that those four instructions are not dependent on each processors. CoSy also accommodates a wide range of programming languages including C, DSP-C, C++, Fortran and Java. |
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