[sdiy] STM32 processor

[ze man]

What language does the DSP, is it mostly arquitecture-specific-ASM? 
How does relate to Xilinx soft-core Microblaze? 

I take it your approach is similar to MCHP, using custom header files?


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From: "Eric Brombaugh" <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:44 PM
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] STM32 processor

> On 10/12/2011 03:12 PM, KD KD wrote:
>> could one hope write DSP code in C?
> 
> You can always write DSP code in C. How well it performs is another 
> story entirely. Inferring your DSP intent from C code is a notoriously 
> difficult problem for compiler writers, so there are typically two 
> approaches:
> 
> 1) Provide libraries of hand-optimized assembly callable from C. That's 
> what MCHP does for their dsPIC.
> 
> 2) Provide 'intrinsics' - little compiler supported pseudo functions 
> that hook into the DSP features of your processor without requiring you 
> to do heavy assembly.
> 
> Neither of these is particularly intuitive or portable, but they're the 
> only way to solve the problem absent artificial intelligence in the 
> compiler. My own approach is to hand-code the critical functions and do 
> the rest high level.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
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