DSP Processor Fundamentals: Architectures and Features (IEEE Press Series on Signal Processing) [Paperback]

Phil Lapsley (Author), Jeff Bier (Author), Amit Shoham (Author), Edward A. Lee (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0780334051 | ISBN-13: 978-0780334052 | Publication Date: February 7, 1997 | Edition: 1

This cutting-edge, practical guide brings you an independent, comprehensive introduction to DSP processor technology. A thorough tutorial and overview of DSP architectures, this book incorporates a broad range of today's product offerings in examples that illustrate DSP features and capabilities. This book is especially useful to electronic systems designers, processor architects, engineering managers, and product planners.

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From the Back Cover

Since the emergence of the first commercially successful digital signal processors in the early 1980s, the programmable DSP market has burgeoned. Designers can now select from a vast array of specialized processors with powerful signal-processing capabilities. DSP Processor Fundamentals presents an independent, comprehensive introduction to DSP processor technology. A thorough tutorial and overview of DSP architectures, this book incorporates a broad range of examples that illustrate DSP features and capabilities. This book is especially useful to electronic systems designers, processor architects, engineering managers, and product planners. Topics covered include:

• Numeric formats
• Data paths
• Memory structures
• Instruction sets
• Execution control
• Pipelining
• On-chip peripherals
• On-chip debugging facilities
• Clocking options
• And more!

About the Author

Philip D. Lapsley is a founder of Berkeley Design Technology, Inc., where he is responsible for special projects. He has worked at several research groups at the University of California at Berkeley, the NASA Ames Research Center, Teknekron Communications Systems, and the U. C. Berkeley Space Sciences Lab.

Jeffrey C. Bier is a founder of Berkeley Design Technology, Inc., where he is responsible for general and technical management, research, and product development. His experience spans software, hardware, and design tool development for signal processing and control applications in commercial and research environments.

Amit Shoham is a Senior DSP Engineer with Berkeley Design Technology, Inc., where he focuses primarily on benchmarking DSP processor performance and evaluating DSP design tools. Prior to joining BDT, Mr. Shoham was at Silicon Graphics, where he developed diagnostics for digital audio hardware.

Edward A. Lee is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley and a founder of Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. He has been co-director of the Ptolemy project (a system-level design and simulation project) at U. C. Berkeley since its inception in 1990. He is a fellow of the IEEE.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press; 1 edition (February 7, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0780334051
• ISBN-13: 978-0780334052
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #628,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The secrets of DSP processors revealed, February 8, 2004

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Jonah Probell "Jonah Probell" (Silicon Valley & Boston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DSP Processor Fundamentals: Architectures and Features (IEEE Press Series on Signal Processing) (Paperback)

BDTI, employer of this book's authors, is the world's foremost independent authority on the analysis of DSP processor designs. This book details many of the aspects of processor design that yield a processor that performs well on DSP applications. As a colleague of mine once remarked, "This book gives away all the secrets."

The writing style of this book is brief and to the point, but complete. It uses many commercial DSP processors as examples but does not focus on any particular one in complete detail.

This book will be most useful to hardware designers of DSP processors. It is not a reference for DSP algorithm or software developers.

2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Insight of DSP Processors, May 24, 2000

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P.SRINIVASA RAO (INDIA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DSP Processor Fundamentals: Architectures and Features (IEEE Press Series on Signal Processing) (Paperback)

The Pipelined concepts are very good , with examples of different processors and its arcitechtures the material provided with examples is very good.