Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Design for low power; 3. CADRE - A new DSP architecture; 4. Design flow; 5. Instruction fetch and the instruction buffer; 6. Instruction decode and index register substitution; 7. Load / store operation and the register banks; 8. Functional unit design; 9. Testing and evaluation; 10. Conclusions; 11. References; 12. Appendix A - The GSM full-rate codec; 13. Appendix B - Instruction set; 14. Appendix C - The index register units; 15. Appendix D - Stored opcode and operand configuration; 16. Index.
The format of this work centers on three themes: in-vehicle corpora, speech recognition/dialog systems with emphasis on car environments, and digital signal processing for mobile platforms involving noise suppression, image/video processing, and alternative communication scenarios that can be employed for in-vehicle applications..
