NEC Purchases CoSy Compiler Development Platform License to Generate C Compilers for DSP Cores; ACE's DSP-C Critical for Short Development Cycles in High-End Consumer Electronics Applications.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1999-- ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) today announced the licensing of its CoSy(R) Compiler Development Platform to 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. Corporation of Tokyo. NEC will use CoSy's advanced compiler development environment to generate high-performance C compilers for the NEC uPD7701x and uPD7711x families of 16-bit 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 processor cores and for its next-generation DSP products. A significant factor in NEC's decision to adopt CoSy as a compiler development tool for the long-term was the pioneering commitment that ACE has shown to DSP-oriented compiler development. In September '98 ACE released a version of CoSy specifically optimized for the production of C compilers for DSP processors. At the same time ACE developed DSP-specific extensions to the C programming language to handle the fixed-point data types, divided memory spaces, dedicated register sets and circular buffers commonly used by DSPs. These language extensions have now been submitted to the ISO/IEC ISO/IEC International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ITU-T M 3000) Joint Technical Committee for inclusion in the next official release of the ISO/ANSI C programming language. ACE is also coordinating the activities of a consortium of industrial users and academic institutions to further develop 'DSP-C.' NEC Corporation is highly active in the DSP market, particularly in the area of high-speed low-power embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. DSP cores for applications in consumer electronics and mobile telecommunications. However, for these high-end applications, where short development cycles are essential, NEC realizes that easy development of DSP programs, written in high level languages such as C, will be critical to success. 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, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) is a world leader in the production of compiler development tools for professional compiler developers. Its open CoSy compiler development platform 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. Web site: http://www.ace.nl Note to Editors: CoSy is a registered trademark of ACE Associated Computer Experts bv. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion