Languages for signal processing software development

摘要

As processors have steadily become faster and less expensive, systems with signal processing algorithms have increasingly been implemented as software running on a processor. One of the first steps in the software development process is choosing the development language. Not too long ago, the choice of language was simple: only assembly language was efficient enough to meet the demands of most signal processing applications. Now that processors are faster, memories are larger, and compilers are better, there are higher level language choices. This article looks at the advantages and trade-offs of languages for signal processing software development-starting at the bottom and moving up from there.