Characteristics of embedded systems include an increasing use of software and the need for efficient realisations. As a consequence, techniques for generating efficient software are required. For DSP-, Multimedia- and VLIW-Processors, techniques for generating efficient assembly language programs from C hardly exist. This contribution describes new compiler techniques exploiting the properties of the processors just mentioned. With these techniques, it is possible to obtain a code quality which is comparable to that of manually generated assembly language programs.
Print ISSN: 1611-2776
Volume: 43, 04/2001
Pages: 194