Designing Application Software for DSP Chips

When it comes to building a digital signal processing (DSP) board, it is important not to neglect the requirements of the application code — the code that actually acquires and processes data to provide useful results. Developers can write code using the assembly language native for a chosen DSP chip, or they can use a higher-level language such as C or C++ that a compiler converts into the operating code for a specific DSP chip. Even higher-level tools and software applications let developers perform operations from menus or drag-and-drop lists of functions; the underlying code of the tool or application converts these graphical operations into the operating code for the specific DSP chip.