Application Report

SPRA645A - April 2001

Circular Buffering on TMS320C6000

Dipa Rao DSP West Applications

ABSTRACT

This application report explains how circular buffering is implemented on the TMS320C6000
devices. Circular buffering helps to implement finite impulse response (FIR) filters efficiently.
Filters require delay lines or buffers of past (and current) samples. Circular addressing
simplifies the manipulation of pointers in accessing the data samples.

This application report addresses the following:

• Circular buffer concept

• Circular buffer setup and manipulation
• Circular addressing example for block FIR

Contents
1 Circular Buffer Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2 Circular Buffer Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3 Block FIR Circular Buffer Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Appendix A Block FIR With Circular Buffering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A.1 C Code: Main.c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A.2 Hand Coded Assembly File: FIRCIRC.ASM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

List of Figures
Figure 1. Delay Line Implemented With Shifting of Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Figure 2. Delay Line With Pointer Manipulation Using Circular Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Figure 3. Address Mode Register (AMR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Figure 4. Circular Buffer Pointer Modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Figure 5. Delay Line State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

List of Tables
Table 1. AMR Mode Field Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
TMS320C6000 is a trademark of Texas Instruments.

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1 Circular Buffer Concept

Finite impulse response (FIR) filters are commonly found in a lot of digital signal processing
applications. Finite impulse response filters are implemented based on the following equation

ȍ xn*i * ai
N*1
yn + (1)
i+0
where ai is a filter coefficient , xk is a data sample, k is the time index and N is the number of
taps. As seen from equation (1), in order to calculate an output yn, we need to maintain a buffer
of previous values (also called a delay line) along with the current sample. Typically, a pointer is
set up at the beginning of the sample array (oldest sample) and then manipulated to access the
consecutive values. Whenever a new sample needs to be added to the delay line either all the
values need to be shifted down (Figure 1) or the oldest value need to be overwritten (Figure 2).
The second technique can be implemented by using circular mode for pointer access.
New input x[n–0]
sample x[n]
x[n–1]

x[n–2]

x[n–3]

x[n–4]

Figure 1. Delay Line Implemented With Shifting of Samples

New input x[n] x[n–4]
sample x[n] Current
oldest
x[n–3]
sample

x[n–2]

x[n–1]

x[n–0]

Becomes x[n–1]

Figure 2. Delay Line With Pointer Manipulation Using Circular Addressing

Circular addressing uses pointer manipulation to add the new samples to the buffer by
overwriting the oldest available samples hence reusing the memory buffer. When the pointer
reaches the last location of the delay line it needs to wrap back to the beginning of the line. This
would normally involve some amount of software overhead. When circular addressing is used,
the pointer automatically wraps back to the top whenever the bottom of the buffer is reached. As
a consequence, the memory locations appear to be tied together in a circular manner hence the
name ‘circular buffer’. Most digital signal processors implement circular buffering in hardware in
order to conserve memory and minimize software overhead.

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2 Circular Buffer Implementation

On the C6000 processor data values in memory are accessed by setting up a register as a
pointer to memory and then loading values using indirect or pointer addressing. The pointers to
memory locations can be manipulated in linear or circular mode. Of the 32 registers available
(A0–A15 and B0–B15), circular addressing can be implemented using any of eight registers
(A4–A7,B4–B7) as a pointer. A 32 bit address mode register (AMR), shown in Figure 3, is used
to indicate whether registers A4–A7 and B4–B7 are enabled in linear or circular mode.
31 26 25 21 20 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8
Reserved BKO BK1 B7 mode B6 mode B5 mode B4 mode

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
A7 mode A6 mode A5 mode A4 mode

Figure 3. Address Mode Register (AMR)

The block size fields (BK0 and BK1) in AMR can be used in conjunction with any of the registers
to specify the length of the buffer as shown in Table 1. A value N in the register BK0/BK1
corresponds to a block size of 2(N+1) bytes. With the 5 bit field in BK0 and BK1 it is possible to
specify 32 different block lengths for circular addressing from 2 bytes to 4G bytes (which
incidentally is also the maximum address reach using a 32 bit pointer register). This makes it
convenient to implement filters with very large number of taps. The circular buffer is always
aligned on the block size byte boundary. This is necessary for the hardware to correctly locate
the start and end of the circular buffer. For instance, if the register A4 contains an address
0x80000005 and the block size is 64 bytes then the start address of the defined circular buffer is
strapped to 0x80000000 and the end address is 0x8000003F.

Table 1. AMR Mode Field Encoding

Mode Addressing Option

00 Linear Mode

01 Circular Mode using BK0 size

10 Circular Mode using BK1 size

11 Reserved

To understand the circular addressing, let us consider a case where we require a pointer A4 to
be set up in circular mode to point to a buffer of length 16 bytes. Firstly, the pointer A4 needs to
be setup in circular mode by initializing bit field [1:0] of register AMR with ’01’ (if using BK0) or
’10’ (if using BK1). The field BK0 set to 00011 resulting in a circular buffer size of 23+1 or 16
bytes. So finally, AMR register will have bit field [1:0] set to 01 and field [25:21] set to 00011. Let
us assume that pointer A4 contains the address 0x8000000E. Now if the pointer A4 is post
incremented by using an instruction such as,
LDH ; *A4++, A8

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This instruction loads the contents of 0x8000000E into A8 and then increments the pointer A4 by
2 bytes, then the pointer will end up at location 0x80000000 due to circular addressing. Circular
addressing hardware automatically defines address 0x80000000 as the top of the buffer and
0x8000000F as the end of the 16 byte long buffer as shown in Figure 4. In fact, if the pointer A4
were to point to any shaded location in the buffer shown in Figure 4, the start and end addresses
of the circular buffer would be the same for the given definition of circular buffer.
0x80000000
0x80000001
0x80000002
....
....
....
....
....
A4

ÇÇÇÇÇÇ
0x8000000e
0x8000000f

ÇÇÇÇÇÇ
Figure 4. Circular Buffer Pointer Modification

3 Block FIR Circular Buffer Example

The following example shows how circular addressing is used when performing block FIR
filtering. Block FIR filter implementation involves the computation of multiple outputs in the same
invocation of the filtering routine. During a sampling period multiple inputs are added to the
circular buffer and multiple outputs are generated. This implies that the calculation shown in
equation (1) is repeated for the number of outputs desired. This requires tracking the pointer to
the data samples and manipulating them to access the correct data in different iterations through
the loop. In this application note, circular addressing is used to simplify the access of data
samples from the buffer. The buffer is defined to be greater than the block size (number of filter
outputs) and to be a power-of-2 (2N). To understand this we consider a simple case with a block
of 6 input samples (16bits each) and a 4 tap (16bits) FIR filter. The data buffer needs to be large
enough to contain the samples and needs to be a power-of-2. Let us assume the buffer to be 16
half words (25 or 32bytes long). Figure 5 illustrates the state of the data samples in the buffer on
4 consecutive calls to the filtering algorithm. The first time the function is called after 6 new
samples are added to the buffer. To calculate the first set of outputs y[0]–y[5],
y 0 + a 0 x 0 ) a 1x *1 ) a 2x *2 ) a 3x *3
y 1 + a 0x 1 ) a 1x 0 ) a 2x *1 ) a 3x *2 (2)

....
y 5 + a 0x 5 ) a 1x 4 ) a 2x 3 ) a 3x 2

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We require 9 data samples x[–3]– x[5] from the buffer as seen in equation (2). Thus, to calculate
each output we require the current sample as well (N–1) previous samples where N is the
number of taps in the filter. For the first output y0, the current sample is x[0] while the old
samples are x[–3],x[–2] and x[–1]. The calling routine uses index to indicate the first location that
needs to be accessed for the current iteration through the filtering loop. Every time the function
is called the calling algorithm passes not only the pointers to the data samples but also the index
into the buffer as well. Hence, the first time the algorithm is called the index into the data sample
buffer is 0 or x[–3]. After the outputs are computed the routine returns to the main calling
program. Before the filtering routine is invoked next, a new set (block size=6) of samples is
added to the buffer. Hence, the second block of data x[6]–x[11] is added to the delay line and
then the function is called a second time. To calculate the outputs y[6]–y[11] we require the data
samples x[3]–x[11] which would imply that the index into the delay line is 6 as illustrated in
Figure 5. The index can be easily calculated as

Index + [Previous_Index ) Block_Size] % Buffer_Size (3)

In our example during the second call to the algorithm, the previous index was 0, block size is 6
and buffer size is 16 hence the index is 6 (pointing to location x[3]).

1st Call 2nd Call 3rd Call 4th Call

x[–3] x[–3] x[–3]x[13] x[13]

x[–2] x[–2] x[–2]x[14] x[14]

x[–1] x[–1] x[–1]x[15] x[15]

x[0] x[0] x[0]x[16] x[16]

x[1] x[1] x[1]x[17] x[17]

Current Block
x[2] x[2] x[2] x[2]x[18]
Old Samples
x[3] x[3] x[3] x[3]x[19]
INDEX
x[4] x[4] x[4] x[4]x[20] location

x[5] x[5] x[5] x[5]x[21]

– x[6] x[6] x[6]x[22]

– x[7] x[7] x[7]x[23]

– x[8] x[8] x[8]

– x[9] x[9] x[9]

– x[10] x[10] x[10]

– x[11] x[11] x[11]

– – x[12] x[12]

Figure 5. Delay Line State

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Now let us consider how the pointer needs to be manipulated within the filtering algorithm. The
third block of 6 samples x[12]–x[17] needs to go into the delay line right after sample x[11].
However, since the buffer is only 16 half words long, some of the new samples will be added at
the top of the buffer overwriting the old values like x[–3], x[–2], etc. Within the filtering algorithm
the pointer used to access the data needs to be manipulated so that new samples are accessed
correctly. In our example, during the third call to the filtering algorithm, as shown in Figure 5, the
pointer needs to be wrapped around to the top of the buffer to access value x[13]. Setting up the
pointer in circular mode ensures that the pointer will fold back to the beginning of the buffer
automatically. By using the circular buffering technique, the filtering algorithm can be called
multiple times without using up data memory space.
The hand assembly code to implement this technique is presented in Appendix A. In the code,
the number of taps is set to be 16, the block size for filtering is 20 and the buffer size is set to
128 bytes or 64 half words (16bits). The instructions that setup the circular pointer mode are
highlighted. The code presented uses the technique of software pipelining to achieve maximum
efficiency and performance. As a consequence there are certain restrictions on the size of the
block as well as number of taps. In order to make the algorithm efficient, the FIR filter algorithm
has been unrolled such that four multiply-accumulates (as shown in equation (2) ) happen in the
same iteration, hence the number of taps must be a multiple of 4. In addition, two output values
are computed in the same loop kernel as a result the block size must be a multiple of 2. This is
explained in the header of the function. Two pointers A7 and B4 access the data samples in the
fir routine so both the pointers are set up in circular mode with the appropriate block size
indicated in BK0 bit field. The sample code also includes a main function that calls the filtering
algorithm multiple times, each time with a newly calculated index value as well as newly loaded
data samples.

4 Conclusion
This application note discussed the basic benefits of using circular addressing and illustrated it
with an example of block FIR filtering. The C6000 code generation tools will offer support for
circular buffering from the C environment in a future release.

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Appendix A Block FIR With Circular Buffering

A.1 C Code: Main.c
// Define Circular Block Size (BUF_LEN), Number of Coefficients (NUM_TAPS) and //
Block FIR Size (NUM_SAMP). BUF_LEN is defined in bytes
#define BUF_LEN 128
#define TOT_SAMP 100
#define NUM_TAPS 16
#define NUM_SAMP 20
#define Q15 32768
// Define output array and input array to filtering routine
short out_array[TOT_SAMP];
short in_array[BUF_LEN/2];

// Align Input Array (Circular Buffer) at appropriate byte boundary

#pragma DATA_ALIGN(in_array,BUF_LEN)

// Initialized data sample values for testing

short inp_samp[TOT_SAMP+NUM_TAPS–1]=
{0xee4d,0xc000,0x08bb,0x3709,0xdc9a,0xae4d,0xf7b2,0x2600,0xcca9,0x9e5b,
0xe93f,0x178c,0xc010,0x91c2,0xded1,0x0d1e,0xb80f,0x89c2,0xd971,0x07bf,
0xb573,0x8726,0xd9a9,0x07f7,0xb87e,0x8a30,0xdf73,0x0dc0,0xc0e1,0x9294,
0xea3a,0x1888,0xcdc8,0x9f7a,0xf8ed,0x273b,0xdde9,0xaf9c,0x0a16,0x3864,
0xefac,0xc15e,0x1c00,0x4a4e,0x014a,0xd2fd,0x2ce2,0x5b30,0x1104,0xe2b6,
0x3b0f,0x695c,0x1d49,0xeefb,0x451e,0x736b,0x24e1,0xf694,0x4a0f,0x785c,
0x270b,0xf8bd,0x4963,0x77b1,0x238f,0xf541,0x432d,0x717a,0x1ac6,0xec78,
0x380a,0x6657,0x0d90,0xdf42,0x2915,0x5763,0xfd3d,0xceef,0x17cc,0x461a,
0xeb6c,0xbd1f,0x05e6,0x3434,0xd9e4,0xab96,0xf52c,0x2379,0xca62,0x9c15,
0xe747,0x1594,0xbe73,0x9025,0xdd99,0x0be7,0xb745,0x88f8,0xd91a,0x0767,
0xb591,0x8743,0xda3b,0x0888,0xb980,0x8b32,0xe0df,0x0f2c,0xc2ae,0x9461,
0xec5d,0x1aaa,0xd032,0xa1e5,0xfb90 };

// Define low pass filter coefficients

short coeff_array[NUM_TAPS] = { 0*Q15/10000, 37*Q15/10000,
113*Q15/10000, 163*Q15/10000,
0*Q15/10000, 535*Q15/10000,
1371*Q15/10000,2163*Q15/10000,
2163*Q15/10000,1371*Q15/10000,
535*Q15/10000, 0*Q15/10000,
–163*Q15/10000,–113*Q15/10000,
–37*Q15/10000, 0*Q15/10000};

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// Prototype filter routine

extern void fir_circ_asm(short *y,short *x,int n,short *h, int s, int m, int size,
int indexex);
// Define function that fills input array with data
void readdata(short *y,short *x, int n, int m);
main()
{
// call assembly FIR routine
int scale_factor=15;
int index=0;
//Fill input array with samples
readdata(inp_samp,in_array,0,35);
//Call Block FIR algorithm
fir_circ_asm(out_array,in_array,NUM_TAPS,coeff_array,scale_factor,NUM_SAMP,BUF_LEN,
index);
// Compute next INDEX value based on the old INDEX and Block FIR (not circular
buffer block) size BUFLEN/2 is used since the pointer points to 16 bit data
index= (index+NUM_SAMP)%(BUF_LEN/2);

readdata(inp_samp,in_array,35,55);
fir_circ_asm(&out_array[NUM_SAMP],in_array,NUM_TAPS,coeff_array,scale_factor,NUM_SA
MP,BUF_LEN,index);
index= (index+NUM_SAMP)%(BUF_LEN/2);
readdata(inp_samp,in_array,55,75);
fir_circ_asm(&out_array[2*NUM_SAMP],in_array,NUM_TAPS,coeff_array,scale_factor,NUM_
SAMP,BUF_LEN,index);
index= (index+NUM_SAMP)%(BUF_LEN/2);
readdata(inp_samp,in_array,75,95);
fir_circ_asm(&out_array[3*NUM_SAMP],in_array,NUM_TAPS,coeff_array,scale_factor,NUM_
SAMP,BUF_LEN,index);

}
void readdata(short init_values[],short array[],int n,int m)
{
int i,temp;
for(i=n;i<m;i++)
{
temp=i%(BUF_LEN/2);
array[temp]=init_values[i];
}
}

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A.2 Hand Coded Assembly File: FIRCIRC.ASM

*======================================================================*
* *
* TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC. *
* *
* NAME *
* fir_circ_asm *
* *
* USAGE This routine is C Callable and can be called as: *
* void fir_circ_asm(short r[], short x[], int nh, short h[],
* int s, int nr, int size, int index)
*
* r = output array
* x = input array, must fill the Block Size
* nh = number of coefficients (MULTIPLE of 4 >= 4)
* h = coefficient array
* s = output scaling factor
* nr = number of outputs to calculate (MULTIPLE of 2
* >= 2)
* size = Block Size (in Bytes) for Circular Addressing
* (Power of 2)
* index = Initial Index into input array
*
* (See the C compiler reference guide.)
*
* DESCRIPTION
* The routine fir_circ_asm() performs a Finite Impulse
* Response filter using circular addressing on the input
* array alone w/ inital index and output scaling. It
* operates on 16–bit data with a 40–bit accumulate. The
* final accumulated output is scaled down by the scaling
* factor s. This scaling factor determines the balance
* between precision of the output and room for overflow
* of the output. Q15 x Q15 = Q30, so s set to 15 will
* produce Q15 output. However, if the outputs were to
* overflow, a larger s could be used to allow more headroom.
* For example, s set to 17 would produce Q13 output, but
* allow for two bits of overflow at the cost of precision.
* The FIR assumes that the number of filter coefficients is a
* multiple of 4 and the number of output samples is a

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* multiple of 2. This routine has no memory hits regardless

* of where x,h and r are located in memory. The filter has nx
* input samples are nh coefficients. The assembly routine
* generates 2 output samples at a time. The block size of the
* circular buffer is passed in as the argument “size” in
* bytes.
*
* On subsequent calls to this routine, index should be
* updated to indicate where in the input array the last
* call finished. The new index is (index + nr) % (size/2)
* An example of how this indexing and circular buffering
* works is shown below:
*
* First call, nh=4, nr=40, size=128 (64 shorts), index=0
*
* |<– Input array, x[64], 128 bytes –>|
* |<– nr+nh–1 (43) inputs used –>|<– unused inputs (21) –>|
* |1111111111111111111111111111111|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
* | 1st input needed to restore state for next call (40) |
*
* Second call, nh=4, nr=40, size=128, index=(0+40)%(128/2)=40
*
* |<– Input array, x[64], 128 bytes –>|
* |<–last 19 inputs–>|<–unused (21)–>|<– first 24 inputs –>|
* |222222222222222222|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|111111111111111111111|
*
* | first input needed to restore state for next call (16) |
*
*
* Third call, nh=4, nr=40, size=128, index=(40+40)%(128/2)=16
*
* |<– Input array, x[64], 128 bytes –>|
* |<–unused (16)–>|<– inputs used (43) –>|<–unused(5)–>|
* |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|11111111111111111111111111|xxxxxxxxxxxxx|
*
* | first input needed to restore state for next call (56) |
*
*
* void fir_circ_asm(short r[], short x[], int nh, short h[],
* int s, int nr, int size, int index)

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* {
* int i, j;
* Long40 y0;
* Long40 round = (Long40) 1 << (s – 1);
* for (j = 0; j < nr; j++) {
* y0 = round;
* for (i = 0; i < nh; i++)
* y0 += x[(i + j + index) % (size/sizeof(short))]
* * h[i];
* r[j] = y0 >> s;
* }
* }
*
*
* ASSUMPTIONS:
* x fills Block Size, aligned on a Block Size boudary
* e.g. size=128, x[64] aligned on 128 byte boundary
* nh MULTIPLE of 4 >= 4
* nx EVEN >= 2
* index <= (size/2) – 2
* size is a power of 2
*
* MEMORY NOTE:
* This code has no memory hits regardless of where x and h
* are located in memory.
*
*
* TECHNIQUES
* The inner loop is unrolled four times thus the number of
* filter coefficients must be a multiple of four. The outer
* loop is unrolled twice so the number of output samples must
* be a multiple of 2.
*
* If an odd number of output samples is needed or possible,
* the final store can either be removed or conditionally
* executed depending on whether nx is even or odd. This code
* would have to be added to the existing code.
*
* The outer loop, like the inner loop, is software pipelined
* as well. e, o, and p in the comments of the individual

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* instructions correspond to the epilogue, outer loop, and

* prologue respectively.
*
* Refer to FIR example in the optimizing assembly chapter of
* the programmer’s guide for more information.
*
* CYCLES *
* nr*(nh + 11)/2 + 17 *
*======================================================================*
* Copyright (C) 1997–1999 Texas Instruments Incorporated. *
* All Rights Reserved *
*======================================================================*
*=============== SYMBOLIC REGISTER ASSIGNMENTS ========================
.asg B15, B_SP
*======================================================================*
* Copyright (C) 1997–1999 Texas Instruments Incorporated. *
* All Rights Reserved *
*======================================================================*
.sect ”.data:copyright_h”
_Copyright: .string ”Copyright (C) 1999 Texas Instruments Incorporated. ”
.string ”All Rights Reserved.”
.sect ”.text:hand”
* .include ”fir_circ_h.h62”
.def _fir_circ_asm
_fir_circ_asm:
;Disable interrupts in code since code is software pipelined
MVC .S2 CSR,B0 ; Load CSR to change GIE bit
AND .L2 –2,B0,B0 ; Disable interrupts
|| STW .D2 B0,*B15–– ; Save old CSR value on stack
MVC .S2 B0,CSR

MVC .S2 AMR, B0

|| LMBD .L1 1, A10, A0 ; set circular block size

STW .D2 B0, *B15–– ; push AMR on the stack

|| SUB .L1 15, A0, A0 ; set circualr block size

STW .D2 B10, *B15–– ; push B10 on the stack

|| MV .L1X B15, A1 ; copy stack pointer
|| ADD .S1 15, A0, A0 ; set circualr block size

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STW .D2 A10, *B15––[2] ; push A10 on the stack

|| STW .D1 B11, *––A1[2] ; push B11 on the stack

STW .D2 A11, *B15––[2] ; push A11 on the stack

|| STW .D1 B12, *––A1[2] ; push B12 on the stack

*** BEGIN Benchmark Timing ***

B_START
B .S1 OUTLOOP
|| ADD .D1 6, A6, A10 ; nh + 6 half array reset
|| SHL .S2X A0, 16, B0 ; set circular block size
|| ADDAH .D2 B4, B10, B4 ; x += index
|| MV .L1X B3, A0 ; copy return address
|| MV .L2 B8, B1 ; move m

SHR .S1 A6, 2, A3 ; nh / 4

|| MV .L2X A10, B10 ; copy array reset
|| SET .S2 B0, 8, 8, B0 ; set B4 (x) in circular mode
|| ADD .L1X 2, B6, A5 ; copy h
|| STW .D2 A12, *B15––[2] ; push A12 on the stack
|| STW .D1 B13, *––A1[2] ; push B13 on the stack

ADD .L1X 2, B4, A7 ; copy x

|| ADD .L2 B10, 2, B14 ; array reset
|| SET .S2 B0, 6, 6, B0 ; set A7 (x) in circular mode
|| STW .D2 A13, *B15––[2] ; push A13 on the stack
|| STW .D1 B14, *––A1[2] ; push B15 on the stack

ADDAH .D1 A5, A10, A5 ; compensate for first pass

|| ADDAH .D2 B6, B10, B5 ; compensate for first pass
|| MVC .S2 B0, AMR ; setup AMR

ADDAH .D1 A7, A10, A7 ; compensate for first pass

|| ADDAH .D2 B4, B14, B4 ; compensate for first pass
|| MVK .S2 1, B2 ; setup j loop priming

ADD .L2X 2, A4, B11 ; copy y

|| STW .D2 A15, *B15–– ; push A15 on the stack

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LOOP: ; LOOP BEGINS HERE

[!A1] ADD .L2X A9, B13:B12,B13:B12 ; y1 += p00, i=0
||[!A1] ADD .L1X B9, A13:A12,A13:A12 ; y0 += p01, i=0
|| MPY .M2 B3, B7, B6 ; p11 = x1 * h1, i=1
|| MPY .M1 A6, A11, A11 ; p00 = x0 * h0, i=1
|| LDH .D1 *++A5[2], B9 ;** h1 = *h++, i=0
|| LDH .D2 *++B5[2], A9 ;** h0 = *h++, i=0

[!A1] ADD .L2 B6, B13:B12,B13:B12 ; y1 += p11, i=0

||[!A1] ADD .L1 A6, A13:A12,A13:A12 ; y0 += p10, i=1
|| MPY .M1X B3, A9, A15 ;* p10 = x1 * h0, i=0
|| MPY .M2X A15, B9, B9 ;* p01 = x0 * h1, i=0
|| LDH .D2 *++B4[2], B3 ;** x1 = *x++, i=1
|| LDH .D1 *++A7[2], A6 ;** x0 = *x++, i=1
||[A2] SUB .S1 A2, 1, A2 ; i++

[A2] B .S1 LOOP ;* for i

||[!A1] ADD .L2X A11, B13:B12,B13:B12 ; y1 += p00, i=1
||[!A1] ADD .L1X B7, A13:A12,A13:A12 ; y0 += p01, i=1
|| MPY .M2 B8, B9, B6 ;* p11 = x1 * h1, i=0
|| MPY .M1 A15, A9, A9 ;* p00 = x0 * h0, i=0
|| LDH .D1 *++A5[2], B7 ;** h1 = *h++, i=1
|| LDH .D2 *++B5[2], A11 ;** h0 = *h++ i=1
||[B0] SUB .S2 B0, 1, B0 ; decrement flushing count

[!A1] ADD .L2 B6, B13:B12,B13:B12 ; y1 += p11, i=1

||[B0] ADD .L1 A15, A13:A12,A13:A12 ;* y0 += p10, i=0
|| MPY .M2X A6, B7, B7 ;* p01 = x0 * h1, i=1
|| MPY .M1X B8, A11, A6 ;* p10 = x1 * h0, i=1
|| LDH .D2 *++B4[2], B8 ;*** x1 = *x++, i=0
|| LDH .D1 *++A7[2], A15 ;*** x0 = *x++, i=0
||[A1] SUB .S1 A1, 1, A1 ; decrement priming

; inner loop branch occurs here

OUTLOOP:
LDH .D2 *––B4[B14], B3 ;p x1 = *x++, i=1
[B1] B .S2 LOOP ;p for i
|| LDH .D2 *++B4[2], B8 ;p x1 = *x++, i=0
|| LDH .D1 *––A7[A10], A15 ;p x0 = *x++, i=0
|| MV .L2X A8, B6 ;o copy s

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|| SUB .L1 A8, 1, A1 ;o s – 1

|| SHR .S1 A13:A12,A8,A13:A12 ;e y0 >>= s

SHR .S2 B13:B12,B6,B13:B12 ;e y1 >>= s

|| LDH .D1 *––A5[A10], B9 ;p h1 = *h++, i=0
|| LDH .D2 *––B5[B10], A9 ;p h0 = *h++, i=0

[!B2] STH .D1 A12, *A4++[2] ;e r[0] = y0

||[!B2] STH .D2 B12, *B11++[2] ;e r[1] = y1
|| MVK .S1 1, A12 ;o \ round = (Long40) 1
|| ZERO .L1 A13 ;o /
|| ZERO .L2 B2 ;o clear j loop priming

LDH .D2 *++B4[2], B3 ;p x1 = *x++, i=1

|| LDH .D1 *++A7[2], A6 ;p x0 = *x++, i=1
|| SHL .S1 A13:A12,A1, A13:A12 ;o y0 = round = (Long40) 1<<(s–1)
|| ADD .L2X 1,A3, B0 ;p setup flushing count

[B1] B .S2 LOOP ;p for i

|| LDH .D1 *++A5[2], B7 ;p h1 = *h++, i=1
|| LDH .D2 *++B5[2], A11 ;p h0 = *h++ i=1
|| MV .L2X A13, B13 ;o y1 = round

LDH .D2 *++B4[2], B8 ;p* x1 = *x++, i=0

|| LDH .D1 *++A7[2], A15 ;p* x0 = *x++, i=0
|| MV .L2X A12, B12 ;o y1 = round
||[B1] SUB .S2 B1, 2, B1 ;p j++
|| MV .L1 A3, A2 ;p i < n
|| MVK .S1 1, A1 ;p i loop priming

B_END:
*** END Benchmark Timing ***
END: LDW .D2 *++B15, A15 ; pop A15 off the stack
|| MV .L1X B15, A1 ; copy stack pointer

LDW .D1 *++A1[3], A13 ; pop A13 off the stack

|| LDW .D2 *++B15, B14 ; pop B14 off the stack

LDW .D1 *++A1[2], A12 ; pop A12 off the stack

|| LDW .D2 *++B15[2], B13 ; pop B13 off the stack

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LDW .D1 *++A1[2], A11 ; pop A11 off the stack

|| LDW .D2 *++B15[2], B12 ; pop B12 off the stack
|| MV .L2X A0, B3 ; move return address

LDW .D1 *++A1[2], A10 ; pop A10 off the stack

|| LDW .D2 *++B15[2], B11 ; pop B11 off the stack

LDW .D2 *++B15[2], B10 ; pop B10 off the stack

LDW .D2 *++B15, B8 ; pop AMR off the stack

LDW .D2* *++B15, B0

|| B .S2 B3
NOP 3
MVC .S2 B8, AMR ; Restore AMR
MVC .S2 B0, CSR ; Restore CSR

*======================================================================
* end of fir_circ assembly code
*======================================================================
* Copyright (C) 1997–1999 Texas Instruments Incorporated. *
* All Rights Reserved *
*======================================================================

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