As your wireless multi-protocol silicon systems provider, Systemonic will ensure that you achieve new levels of technology, resulting in new levels of success. That's your commitment from Systemonic.

Systemonic's core technology is the patented OnDSP™ platform. This platform supports the generation of application-specific digital signal processors (DSPs) within a very short time. These DSPs feature a single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) architecture in which the parallel data flows are split up into several identical datapaths. The platform is based on a specific processor architecture the major parts of which remain constant with every generation; other parts, however, are automatically generated as required by the specific application.

For an optimum matching of the DSP to the performance requirements of the application concerned, the processor architecture can be modified at different levels of the DSP architecture.

• In the execution of the signal processing algorithms, the width of the datapath plays a significant role in determining performance. The OnDSP™ platform permits a simple variation of the bit widths within the datapath elements so that the required accuracy can be achieved with a minimum width and, thus, size.
  
  
• The computation of algorithms requires a certain number of arithmetic steps to be performed. Particularly in the case of signal processing algorithms such as filters or Fast Fourier Transformations (FFT), large amounts of data are processed within loops. Parallel processing can accelerate the computation of such algorithms. The OnDSP™ platform allows for different numbers, depending of parallel datapaths, allowing an optimum compromise to be achieved between the required clock frequency and the size of the circuit.
  
  
• Different applications call for different datapath operations. An integral part of the OnDSP™ platform is a library of blocks that perform a variety of commonly-used operations such as Galois Field Arithmetics, Multiply-Accumulate (MAC), Shifter, error correction and error protection encoding. With the help of this library, the datapath of the signal processor can be tailored to each application's specific needs during the development phase. This approach guarantees that the DSP performs only those operations and instructions which are needed. As a result, the area occupied by the circuit is substantially smaller than that of standard DSPs.

By means of the parameters established during the system and processor specification phase, the platform automatically generates a synthezisable HDL description that can be embedded in the system-on-chip design. The development environment required for programming the DSP is generated from the same data-base.

The advantages of this platform approach are numerous. The optimum adjustment of the DSP to the specific application allows a chip to be designed that combines the advantages of a programmable solution with the efficiency of a hard-wired circuit. The largely automatic generation both of the HDL description of the DSP and the associated software development tools permits a drastic reduction in design time and a largely parallel chip design and associated firmware development.

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