Title :
On the Use of Compilers in DSP Laboratory Instruction
Author :
Kleffner, Matthew D. ; Jones, Douglas L. ; Hiser, Jason D. ; Kulkarni, Prasad ; Parent, Julie ; Hines, Stephen ; Whalley, David ; Davidson, Jack W. ; Gallivan, Kyle
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL
Abstract :
A modern DSP laboratory course should teach students how to quickly develop efficient applications using a mixture of C and assembly instructions. Since typical irregular DSP microprocessor architectures present some challenges to traditional optimizing compilers, we introduced a novel new interactive optimizing compiler, VISTA, in a DSP laboratory course to teach students about optimizing compilers and the trade-offs between code development in C and assembly. Students generally found VISTA educational and gained improved insight into effective DSP software development
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer science education; digital signal processing chips; educational courses; electronic engineering education; laboratories; program assemblers; program compilers; DSP laboratory course; DSP laboratory instruction; DSP microprocessor architectures; VISTA educational; assembly; interactive optimizing compiler; Application software; Assembly systems; Computer architecture; Computer science; Digital signal processing; Laboratories; Microprocessors; Optimizing compilers; Programming profession; Real time systems;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0469-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660508
