Title: A C++ Extension based on a Parameterized Dataflow Model for Embedded Streaming Applications
Abstract:Many DSP systems are streaming applications in which streams of data constantly flow through a set of filters. Dataflow programming paradigm is one of effective methods for representing these streamin...Many DSP systems are streaming applications in which streams of data constantly flow through a set of filters. Dataflow programming paradigm is one of effective methods for representing these streaming applications. Dataflow programming model explicitly exposes parallelisms within an application, which helps compiling of the application onto a multicore platform. We propose SPEX(Signal Processing Extension), a language extension to a standard imperative language based on the parameterized dataflow model. Parameterized dataflow model is a kind of dataflow model that can express a modest fashion of dynamism contrary to the synchronous dataflow that can represent only static dataflow. SPEX facilitates characterizing an application written in conventional imperative languages such C/C++ as a streaming application. SPEX is comprised of a few keywords augmented to the conventional C++ syntax for representing dataflow paradigm. SPEX also restricts the syntax and semantics of C++ in order to fit the program within a certain streaming programming category. In this paper, we focus on the capability of SPEX in representing streaming computations within filters and streaming communications among filters.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Access and Citation
AI Researcher Chatbot
Get quick answers to your questions about the article from our AI researcher chatbot