PARALLEL DSP SYSTEM INTEGRATION

Heterogeneous parallel computer architectures with flexible topology, such as transputer or TMS320C40 networks with special purpose coproces sors, are ideal hardware candidates for many signal processing and ins trumentation applications. The management of the hardware complexity o f large systems, however, presents serious problems. This paper descri bes a model-based approach to deal with them. The novel features of th is method include hierarchical modelling, dual (graphical and declarat ive) model representation and automatic model analysis. The merits of the approach include the formal representation of the system design, i ntelligent hardware diagnostic support and fast message routing map an d network loader information generation.