Programmable Modular Signal Processor : A Data Flow Computer System for Real-Time Signal Processing.

TL;DR: The authors present an organization of a programmable modular signal processor capable of being realized with a small number of hardware functional units, and it allows the hardware to be independent of the signal processing application.

Abstract: Classical signal processor design techniques are very expensive, time consuming, and result in custom hardware and software that may not be capable of meeting the wide ranging requirements of signal processing applications other than the one for which it was intended. The authors present an organization of a programmable modular signal processor. A data flow concept of control is advocated in order to take advantage of the run-time parallelism inherent in most applications. The attractive features of the system are that it is capable of being realized with a small number of hardware functional units, and it allows the hardware to be independent of the signal processing application. The system is organized to support a high-level graph-oriented signal processing application description capability in order to simplify the user interface. 12 references.