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DSPLinux Bridge

The TMS320DSC processors from Texas Instruments provide a new level of performance, and when coupled with an industry standard programming framework (CORBA) in the DSPLinux Bridge, developers easily takes advantage of asymmetric multiprocessing. Developers use well-documented APIs, or create their own custom APIs, to run tasks on DSPs or other processors. Many DSP algorithms are already written to the TI TMS320^TM DSP Algorithm Standard, the DSPLinux Bridge supports all of them. When GStreamer runs on DSPLinux, it uses the DSPLinux Bridge to execute multimedia algorithms on the DSP.

The DSPLinux Bridge allows the implementation of an interface to run on a different processor, even using a different machine architecture. Software calls are made to a well-defined interface, then the DSPLinux Bridge crosses processor boundaries and calls into the code that provides the implementation. This is all done transparently to the programmer using the interface.