FEATURES
Optimization
Techniques for High-Performance DSPs
by Rob Oshana
As applications grow, so does the stress on available CPU and memory resources. This article summarizes some of the techniques used in practice to gain speed increases from high-performance DSPs.
Integrating a Soft Modem
by Thomas F. Herbert
What if your system needs a modem occasionally but you're worried about bearing the additional hardware cost? In this article, the author discusses
the alternative option of integrating soft modem IP.
Time Triggered Protocol: TTP/C
by Ross Bannatyne
Fault-tolerant, real-time performance is vital to the success of by-wire systems. Her is a solution that meets safety-critical requirements.
SPECIAL REPORT
Selecting a Real-Time Operating System
by Greg Hawley
The decision to buy a real-time operating system, rather than create your own, is hard enough. But the decision
on what to buy and from whom presents even more variables.
COLUMNS
Significant Bits
CPU Design is Dead! Long live CPU Design!
by Jim Turley
Programmer's Toolbox
More on Language Translation
by Jack W. Crenshaw
Programming Pointers
Ensuring Static Initialization in C++
by Dan Saks
Spectra
DSPs with SIMD
by Don Morgan
Break Points
A Plea to Compiler Vendors
by Jack G. Ganssle
State of the Art
3-2-1 Contact
by P.J. Plauger
DEPARTMENTS
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Going Against the Flow
by Lindsey Vereen
News Vectors
Bandwidth to be the "new abundance"; Microtec appoints new VP and GM
Recruitment
Marketplace
Advertiser Index
Cover Illustration by Rupert Adley
