A mixed synchronous-asynchronous approach for digital signal processing

Signal processing applications are bound by severe constraints: efficiency an reliability. To obey these constraints two main approaches exist: the synchronous approach and the asynchronous one. But, in practice, each style tends to be weak where the other is strong. Work presented in this paper is part of a project that aims at combining the respective advantages of these methods, in order to make programming of large signal processing applications easier with a run-time system close to the standard communicating sequential processes (CSP) model.