Synthesis and Optimization of DSP Algorithms describes approaches
taken to synthesising structural hardware descriptions of digital
circuits from high-level descriptions of Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
algorithms. The book contains:
-A tutorial on the subjects of digital design and architectural
synthesis, intended for DSP engineers,
-A tutorial on the subject of DSP, intended for digital designers,
-A discussion of techniques for estimating the peak values likely to
occur in a DSP system, thus enabling an appropriate signal scaling.
Analytic techniques, simulation techniques, and hybrids are discussed.
The applicability of different analytic approaches to different types of
DSP design is covered,
-The development of techniques to optimise the precision requirements of
a DSP algorithm, aiming for efficient implementation in a custom
parallel processor. The idea is to trade-off numerical accuracy for area
or power-consumption advantages. Again, both analytic and simulation
techniques for estimating numerical accuracy are described and
contrasted. Optimum and heuristic approaches to precision optimisation
are discussed,
-A discussion of the importance of the scheduling, allocation, and
binding problems, and development of techniques to automate these
processes with reference to a precision-optimized algorithm,
-Future perspectives for synthesis and optimization of DSP algorithms.
A wide body of literature exists covering separately the areas of DSP,
hardware design, and design automation. This book brings together the
fields, concentrating on those transformations, optimizations, and
design techniques that would usually be considered to cross the domain
boundaries between "pure DSP" and "pure digital implementation". As
such, this book forms a valuable contribution to the existing
literature.
Synthesis and Optimization of DSP Algorithms is of use both to
researchers and students in the field of design automation for DSP
systems, and to those wishing to implement state-of-the-art techniques
within an Electronic Design Automation framework.
