October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
430 pages
14h 57m
English
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8 Embedded systems design
support through enhanced multiply–accumulate operations or
through special accelerators. It is clear though, that as general
purpose processing increases in capability, what was once the sole
province of a DSP can now be achieved by a general purpose
processor.
Inside the embedded system
Processor
The main criteria for the processor is: can it provide the
processing power needed to perform the tasks within the system?
This seems obvious but it frequently occurs that the tasks are either
underestimated in terms of their size and/or complexity or that
creeping elegance expands the specification to beyond the proces-
sor’s capability. ...