🚀 go-pugleaf

I am looking for help in collecting information about a wide range of
DSP development tools, both commercial and academic.  Particularly, I
am interested in tools that speed the process of turning signal
processing ideas into real systems.  By real system I mean dedicated
hardware, such as a modem, not DSP cards for PCs.  I can think
immediately of the following classes of tools:

1. Tools for algorithm development.  These tools allow the algorithm
designer to rapidly test alternative algorithms and to verify their
performance on real data sets.  The examples that jump to my mind are
MATLAB and Nth Power.  The issues in these types of tools is how fast
they allow you to try out ideas, how much support do they have for
generation of synthetic data sets, how easily can you analyze your
algorithms, etc.

2. Tools for signal processing software development.  These tools
allow you to specify your algorithm in "high level" signal processing
language from which runtime code can be automatically generated.  I do
not mean C compilers for DSP chips.

3. Tools for signal processing hardware development.  Similar to
software generation tools.  These tools allow high level
specifications to be turned into hardware descriptions.  An example of
such a tool is DSP Station from MENTOR.  It can generate hardware
descriptions for a set of signal processing operations.

I am especially interested in integrated tool sets, i.e., tools that
do some combination of the above three tasks in an integrated
framework.

I would appreciate any type of response:

        * Here is the name of a vendor or a professor to contact

        * I've used XYZ and it is great for ABC and poor for DEF

        * Here is another whole class of tools you have missed

Since this is so open-ended please respond directly via email rather than
flooding comp.dsp.

Thanks.