Target apps perform 60 p.c better with CEVA's DSP

CAMBRIDGE, UK: CEVA, the vendor of DSP IP, claims that its DSP is the industry’s first C-based application optimization tool-chain for licensable DSPs, which will improve performance of customers’ target applications by over 60 per cent.

Included in the CEVA-Toolbox software development environment is a new application optimizer, which offers an end-to-end, fully C-based development flow for licensable DSP cores.

The application optimizer lets users develop software for CEVA’s DSPs purely in C-Level – thus eliminating any hand-written assembly coding, a statement from CEVA said.

The application optimizer contains a project build optimizer, which creates optimized build configurations, and then simulates and profiles multiple application scenarios, based on exact system condition and the customers’ application.

According to CEVA, DSP and communication libraries offer C-callable assembly optimized functions, which improve considerably development time and performance.

A cycle-accurate C-level application and memory subsystem profiler, says CEVA, provides developers with an optimum compilation, based on how the code scores in the multiple scenarios.

The application optimizer, CEVA claims, offers a ratio less than 1:1.5 between out-of-the-box C and optimized assembly.

The integral elements of the application optimizer also include post-linker optimizer, environment automation, as well as debugger connectivity for easy migration of algorithms.

According to CEVA, the application optimizer toolchain has been conceived with a view to solving one of the largest blockage in the design cycle, writing and optimizing software for a given multifaceted system architecture.