Evaluation, Implementation and Optimization of FIR Filter Algorithms for TMS320VC5510 DSP Processor

Real-time digital signal processing applications are everywhere. The most essential part of these applications are FIR filters. For these systems to achieve the realtime demands it is essential that filtering executes as fast as possible. For systems with sever constraints limited resources, low power consumption – stronger hardware is not a solution. The solution is to evaluate FIR filter algorithms in the context of hardware capabilities. Based on this we create optimized implementations for the FIR filter algorithms, both in high-level programming languages and in assembly. Based on the profiling results from these implementations we have been able to deduce possible optimization methods. With the usage of these methods we have been able to produce a highly optimized FIR filter implementation for the TMS320VC5510 DSP processor. To verify the results we conduct a benchmark which contains all the implementations and an optimized FIR filter implementation created by Texas Instruments.