Digital Signal Processing Solutions Tools: Software Development Utilities

Product Name: VPB Toolset
Company Name: Central Research Laboratories
Features & Benefits:
  • Maximises execution speed
  • Identifies bottlenecks
  • Comm channel monitoring
  • Powerful information manager
  • Supports Parallel C from 3L Ltd.
Application Area: Performance Tuning
Host Platforms Supported: Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows NT
TMS320 Devices Supported: C4x
Codegeneration Capabilities: C
Visual Programming Capabilities: NO
Technical Support/Training Available: YES
CRL are also able to provide a performance tuning consultancy service--where we optimise your code for you.
Overview: VPB Toolset measures the performance of software running on parallel computers or embedded multi-processor systems. As a developer of applications for multiple DSP systems, you can monitor the actual rather than the predicted behavior of your software. Load measurements detect performance bottlenecks and event markers locate their causes in the program code. Loads can be balanced, performance tuned and execution speeds increased, which leads to reduced development risks and costs. Any user task on any processor can generate both event markers and formatted text messages. These identify points in the source and are directly represented by the performance graphs, quickly enabling bottlenecks to be isolated. The user has control of what is monitored, over what period and at what sampling rate. The complete run can be sampled at various resolutions to allow problem areas to be analysed in detail. System configuration files are produced automatically as part of the process of specifying the network. The output of a network worm can be used as the basis for this specification. All VPB-related code can be removed from the application executable simply by rebuilding the system with a different make target. There is no need to re-edit the source files.
Company Information: Central Research Laboratories
Dawley Road
Hayes Middx. UB3 1HH UK
Tel: +44 (0) 181 848 6444
Fax: +44 (0) 181 848 6454
e-mail: jnolan@crl.co.uk
www: http://www.crl.co.uk
CRL employ over 140 engineers and scientists. Our expertise includes algorithm, software, and hardware development, and systems integration.

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