EE382C Embedded Software Systems - UltraSparc Visual Instruction Set

Prof. Brian L. Evans, Spring Semester, 1998, ENS 302, TTH 6:30 - 8:00 PM, Course Id 14735


Native Signal Processing on the UltraSparc in the Ptolemy Environment

William Chen, H. John Reekie, Sunil Bhave, and Edward A. Lee

Department of EECS
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1772

johnr@eecs.berkeley.edu

Abstract of their 1996 Asilomar Conference paper

We have implemented a number of real-time signal processing kernels and applications within the Ptolemy simulation and code generation environment. Our goal is to make it easy to generate real-time programs with configurable interactive user interfaces. As part of this project, we have developed and benchmarked some key signal processing kernels for the new UltraSparc Visual Instruction Set (VIS). We present some performance results and compare the VIS with plain integer and floating-point C code running on the same processor.

William Chen, "Real-time Signal Processing on the Ultrasparc", MS Thesis, UC Berkeley, January 19, 1997.


Updated 04/21/98.