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HeJZ，ChenWG，ChenGR eta1．OpenMDSP：ExtendingOpenMPtoprogram multi—coreDSPs．JOURNALOF COM— PUTERSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY 29(2)：316—331Mar．2014．DOI10．1007／s11390—014—1433一x OpenM DSP：ExtendingOpenM P toProgram M ulti—CoreDSPs Jiang—ZhouHe (何江舟)，StudentMember,CCF,wen—GuangChen (陈文光)，Member，CCF,ACM,IEEE Guang-RiChen (陈光日)，Wei—MinZheng (郑纬民)，Fellow，CCF,Member，ACM,IEEE Zhi—ZhongTang (汤志忠)，Member,CCF,andHan—DongYe (叶寒栋) DepartmentofComputerScienceandTechnology，TsinghuaUniversity，Beijing100084，China 。HuaweiTechnologiesCo ． Ltd．，Shenzhen518129，China E—mail：hejz07@mails．tsinghua．edu．cn；cwg@tsinghua．edu．cn；chenguangri@huawei．com zwm—dcs，tzz—dcs}@tsinghua．edu．cn；hye@huawei．com ReceivedMarch 26，2013；revisedNovember29，2013 Abstract Multi—coredigitalsignalprocessorsfDSPs)arewidelyused inwirelesstelecommunication，corenetwork transcoding，industrialcontrol，andaudio／videoprocessingtechnologies，amongothers．Incomparisonwithgeneral—purpose multi—processors，multi—coreDSPsnormally havea morecomplex memory hierarchy．such ason—chipcore—loca1memory andnon—cache—coherentsharedmemory．Asaresult，efficientmulti—coreDSP applicationsarevery difficulttowrite．The currentapproachusedtoprogram multi—coreDSPsisbasedonproprietaryvendorsoffwaredevelopmentkitsfSDK81，which only providelow—level，non—portableprimitives．W hileitisacceptabletowritecoarse—grained task—levelparalle1codewith theseSDKs，writing fine—grained data parallelcodewith SDKsisavery tediousand error—proneapproach．W ebelieve thatitisdesirabletopossessahigh—levelandportableparallelprogrammingmode1formulti．coreDSPs．In thispaper． weproposeOpenMDSP an extensionofOpenMP designedofrmulticoreDSPs．ThegoalofOpenMDSP istofillthegap betweentheOpenM Pmemorymodelandthememoryhierarchyofmulti—coreDSPs．、veproposethreeclassesofdirectives inOpenMDSP，including1)dataplacementdirectivesthatallow programmerstocontroltheplacementofglobalvariables conveniently，2)distributedarraydirectivesthatdivideawholearrayintosecti