A new approach to model communication for mapping and scheduling DSP-applications

We present a novel approach to model inter-processor communication in multi-DSP systems. In most multi-DSP systems, inter-processor communication is realized by transferring data over point-to-point links with hardware FIFO buffers. Direct memory access (DMA) is additionally used to concurrently transfer data to the FIFO buffers and perform computation. Our model accounts for the limited size of the communication buffers as well as concurrent DMA transfer. This novel communication model is applied in our rapid prototyping environment for optimizing multi-DSP systems. Given an extended data flow graph of the DSP application and a description of the target multi-processor system our rapid prototyping environment automatically maps the DSP application onto the multi-processor system and generates a schedule for each processor.