Virtual Digital Signal Processing in an Object-Oriented System
David K. Mellinger, Guy E. Garnett, Bernard Mont-Reynaud · Computer Music Journal · 1989
We describe this paper a prototype environment for digital signal processing terms of a virtual processor and its associated virtual data. The basic operations of the processor are for fast vector operations on a variety of different types of hardware. One finished implementation is presented and others are planned. The modern digital signal processing environment is one of great flux. New chips are being developed and brought to market at ever faster rates. Those creating signal-processing software applications wish to take advantage of the speed of these hardware devices, but are faced with the problem of interfacing each application to each piece of hardware. The work required can be reduced immensely by using a signal-processing software environment that is common to all the low-level hardware devices, but such an environment must have hardware independence designed in from the very