DSP56300 family

This is the description of DSP56300 family: The DSP56300 family of digital signal processors (DSPs) is fully supported by Motorola's Suite56 software development tools. This robust tool suite, which has helped to develop millions of lines of DSP software, includes an assembler, linker, simulator, debugger and several utilities. Suite56 supports developing with multiple DSPs, ideal for DSP farm applications. The Suite56 assembler provides a rich set of features designed to enable efficient embedded software development, including support for macros that give the user the ability to write a sequence of instructions once, and call the sequence from multiple points in the code without incurring the overhead of a subroutine call. In addition, structured assembly is designed to provide high-level constructs such as looping ("do while") and conditional execution ("if then else") in assembly language programs.

The DSP56300 suite's full-featured linker is engineered to provide complete control over placement of code and data in memory, as well as more sophisticated features such as overlays to allow the user to copy sections of code into program memory while the program is running. The code is generally stored in slower, less complex memory and copied into fast memory to be executed, lowering system development costs without sacrificing execution time.