This paper introduces work done at STAR Semiconductor over the last 3 years in simplifying the use of digital signal processing techniques. This work has been directed at creating a technology that can go from a block diagram description to the eficient coding of a generally programmable signal processor in a matter of minutes. To achieve this has required the development of a new kind of DSP processor. This processor, called a SPROCm, is a multi-processor device thatprovides, by design, for the handling of concurrency (the missing dimension).The first generation of this technology is now functional and is being applied to a wide variety of production designs. We are finding that the typical electrical performance of the graphically coded SPROC TM processors in stream processing applications is significantly better than custom coded conventional single chip DSPs. This paper is principallJ1 a discussion of the SPROCTM architecture and the schedulers that serve it.
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