From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8c8bbb1419c8e81a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Corey Minyard Subject: Re: Waiver question Date: 1997/04/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 236733285 Sender: minyard@wf-rch References: <33585385.C8D@lmtas.lmco.com> <335BB40D.4FD2@lmtas.lmco.com> <335D0F57.5455@lmtas.lmco.com> Organization: Wonderforce Research Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ken Garlington writes: > > Ken Garlington wrote: > > > > For the TI DSP family, I know of only one Ada 83 vendor (TI/Tartan) and > > no > > Ada 95 vendors. The AdaIC databases confirm my understanding. There > > appears > > to be more than one C/C++ vendor (TI is one) for this family, however. > > The > > request does not cite a specific number. > > I've just been told that for the TI C40 DSP, the following languages are > available: > > Ada 83 - TI (Tartan) appears to be the only vendor. > C++ - TI (Tartan) appears to be the only vendor. However, TI (Tartan) > has announced that they are discontinuing support for this > product. > C - TI appears to be the only vendor. Actually, there is now a GCC port for the C30/C40 DSP. Theoretically, a C++ port and a GNAT port should be doable. The C++ port should be a matter of libraries. I'm not sure what the effects of the C40's minimum addressable unit being 32-bits would be on GNAT, but if that is not a problem it is a matter of libraries and bindings. > > Based on this, I would say that the growth in the C++ market for this > target is > not as large as the vendor believes. If anyone has different > information, let > me know. Since DSP's generally perform very focused tasks that require high performance, they are generally programmed as close to the hardware as possible. The C30/C40 change that since they are more general purpose than most DSPs, so people want to replace the control processors on boards with them. I did a board that did signal processing and interface control; it was around 40KLOC of C code on the C40. But the compiler situation for these processors has never been that great. -- Corey Minyard Internet: minyard@acm.org Work: minyard@nortel.ca UUCP: minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com