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Companies that can leverage the “free” power from new 32- and 64-bit DSP chips to host new applications stand to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Adopting a Model-Driven Development (MDD) approach enables developers to gain the most from this opportunity, obtaining the ability to reuse software, effectively utilize distributed teams for DSP development, and ultimately move DSP chip development from firmware to software.

The telecommunications industry balances on a technological razor’s edge. Companies must rapidly develop new products and aggressively pursue better processes to remain vital in the marketplace. The shift from 8- or 16-bit to 32- or 64-bit DSP chip technologies creates an opportunity for next-generation telecom device development.

DSP chips are prevalent in telecom applications because every signal is converted to digital and passed through multiple networks and carriers. These DSP chips are designed to help convert digital data from one form to another. To do this, organizations must move beyond firmware to software, meet aggressive time-to-market goals, and develop high-quality applications. Organizations that embrace an embedded systems and software process that allows them to design, validate, simulate, test, and collaborate on applications in one powerful design environment have a clear advantage over the competition.

MDD can help solve these issues by enabling software reuse and allowing distributed teams to easily collaborate and build system-wide models that encompass the entire design in one cohesive environment. Using MDD, teams can model the whole system from the handset to the network to the voicemail functions, reusing existing telecom software, leveraging distributed teams to their fullest advantage, and moving DSP chip design from firmware to software, thereby expanding the DSP chip’s role in telecom applications.