An Esterel-based Development Environment for Designing Software Radio Applications
Abstract
Designing DSP (Digital Signal Processing) applications is a complex task. It requires a software development environment capable of putting together DSP modules and providing facilities to debug, verify and validate the code. Pspectra is one of the first toolkits available to design basic software radio applications on standard PC workstations. In this report, we present the Esterel extensions we have added to this toolkit in order to make the debugging and verification phases of development easier. These phases are known to be the most time consuming operations. In order to improve the performance of these applications, we have also implemented a new scheduling model which is well suited to the specification of the control part of the applications in Esterel. The performance results reported in the report are promising.
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