Embedded Digital Signal Processing Systems

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Editorial Embedded Digital Signal Processing Systems Jarmo Takala,1 Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya,2 and Gang Qu2 1 Institute

of Digital and Computer Systems, Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 1, 33720 Tampere, Finland of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

2 Department

Received 6 March 2007; Accepted 6 March 2007 Copyright © 2007 Jarmo Takala et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

With continuing progress in VLSI and ASIC technologies, digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms have continued to find great use in increasingly wide application areas. DSP has gained popularity also in embedded systems although these systems set challenging constraints for implementations. Embedded systems contain limited resources, thus embedded DSP systems must balance tradeoffs between the requirements on computational power and computational resources. Energy efficiency has been important in batterypowered devices, but nowadays also the limited heat dissipation in small devices calls for low-power consumption. Successful implementation of DSP applications in embedded systems requires tailoring, which in turn sets challenges for design methodologies. For this special issue, we received 14 submissions and a collection of seven papers was finally accepted. The special issue is opened by “Observations on power-efficiency trends in mobile communication devices,” where the authors O. Silv´en and K. Jyrkk¨a analyze the power consumption in the current mobile communication devices. Several bottlenecks in the current implementation style have been identified, thus the paper provides a good motivation for the following papers. In “The Sandbridge SB3011 platform,” the authors John Glossner et al. describe a system-on-a-chip (SoC) multiprocessor targeted as a software-defined radio platform. The platform provides solutions to the challenges in future mobile devices given in the previous paper. “A shared memory module for asynchronous arrays of processors” authored by Michael J. Meeuwsen et al. considers also chip multiprocessors. The presented shared memory module can be used for interprocess communication or to increase application performance by parallelizing computation. In “Implementing a WLAN video terminal using UML and fully automated design flow” by Petri Kukkala et al., an automated design flow for multiprocessor SoC is presented.

The flow is based on UML descriptions and the authors demonstrate their design flow with a design case. Programming of chip multiprocessor platforms is considered in “pn: a tool for improved derivation of process networks” by Sven Verdoolaege et al. The paper discusses conversion of sequential programs to process networks allowing optimization of communication channels and buffers. In “A SystemC-based design methodology for digital signal processing systems,” the au

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