On core and more: a design perspective for system-on-chip

This paper focuses on a main domain for core based DSP systems. In wireless applications it is an indispensable requirement to optimally utilize computational power and on-chip memory. It is well known that to achieve this goal, DSPs are almost exclusively programmed in assembly, due to the poor efficiency of the existing compilers. In view of the required drastic increase of the designer's productivity and of design reuse it is evident that the single most important contribution boosting efficiency will come from high-level language support for DSP applications.