Rapid Prototyping of Digital Signal Processing Systems with GRAPE-II
Rudy Lauwereins, Marc Engels, M. Adé, Jean Peperstraete · 1994
The paper describes GRAPE-II (Graphical RApid Prototyping Environment), an advanced system level development environment for the specification, compilation, debugging, simulation and emulation of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications. GRAPE-II supports the real-time emulation of synchronous multirate applications on heterogeneous target platforms, consisting of multiple TMS320C40 processors and Xilinx FPGAs. Ports to the Motorola DSP5600x, the Texas Instruments TMS320C80 and the Analog Devices 21060 are foreseen in the near future. GRAPE-II also allows for the simulation and debugging of asynchronous as well as synchronous multi-rate applications on a single Unix workstation, on a Unix workstation cluster, on a Meiko Computing Surface and on a Parsytec Xplorer parallel machine. GRAPE-II is commercialised under the name Virtuoso Synchro by Intelligent Systems International. high, so algorithms should be thoroughly tested and optimized at all design stages before the final implem...