Syllabus - DSP Processors (EI 504 (C))

An introduction to DSP Processors

Advantages of DSP characteristics of DSP systems, classes of DSP applications. DSP processor embodiment and alternatives, Fixed Vs Floating point processors, fixed point and floating point data path.

DSP Architecture

An introduction to Harvard Architecture, Differentiation between Von-Neumann and Harvard Architecture, Quantization and finite word length effects, Bus structure, Central Processing unit – ALU, Accumulators, Barrel shifters, MAC unit, compare, select, and store unit (CSSU), data addressing and program memory addressing

Memory architecture

Memory structures features for reducing memory access required, wait states, external memory interfaces, memory mapping – data memory, program memory, I/O memory, memory mapped registers. Addressing: Various addressing modes - implied addressing, immediate data addressing, memory direct addressing, register direct and indirect addressing and short addressing modes. Instruction set: Instruction types, various type of registers, orthogonality assembly language and application development.

Execution Control and pipelining

Hardware looping, interrupts, stack, pipelining and performance, pipelining depth, interlocking, branching effects, interrupt effects, instruction pipelining. Peripherals: Serial ports, timers, parallel ports, Bit input/output ports, Host ports, communication ports, on-chip A/D and D/A converters, external interrupts, on-chip debugging facilities, power consumption and management.

Processors

Architecture and instruction set of TMS320C3x, TMS320C5x, TMS320C6x, ADSP21xx DSP chips, some examples programs. Recent trends in DSP system Design: FPGA based DSP system design, advanced development tools for FPGA, development tool for programmable DSP’s- An introduction to Code composer studio.