The VIRTUOSO Tools
for Real-Time Application Development
by High-Tech Services Partners

Software Overview

The VIRTUOSO Tools help developers of real-time applications to cope with the typically divergent 
requirements that characterize DSP systems: dynamic or static scheduling, low interrupt latencies, 
fast context switching, low memory usage, high portability and scalability, etc. The wide choice of 
VIRTUOSO tools allows for an optimal match between the application's requirements and the features 
of the tool. Particularly, when programming multi-processor targets, these high-level tools are 
highly useful because the details of inter-processor communication are taken care of.
The VIRTUOSO set of programming tools, which is marketed under the banner of the Virtual Single 
Processor Programming System, provides for a high level of portability and scalability. A developer 
does not have to write any code specific to the number or the kind of processors being in use, 
although he always can, if he feels this appropriate.
The VIRTUOSO range of tools includes multi-tasking kernels with support for programming at multiple 
levels, optimized libraries for mathematical, signal and image processing on DSPs, and a fast 
application-development tool suite. These tools come with a host interface and I/O libraries for 
easy development on PC (DOS, Windows) or on UNIX-hosted systems (Solaris 1.x and 2.x).
The VIRTUOSO Tools provide the user with the same multitasking interface on processors ranging from 
8-bit microcontrollers to 32-bit parallel DSP systems.

Features and Benefits

•	Multi-tool and multi-level
•	Ease of use with no compromise on the performance

Processor and System Specifications

•	Virtuoso applications: Customers use VIRTUOSO Tools on off-the-shelf and proprietary boards in 
satellites, radar, sonar- and general-signal processing, machine control, telecommunications, 
simulation, robot control and autonomous vehicles, image processing, and large-scale 
data-acquisition applications.

Processor and System Specifications

•	Texas Instruments' TMS320C3x and TMS320C4x.

Company Background and Contact Information

HSP is specialized in supplying integrated high-performance parallel-processing systems. The 
company is among the first to use extensively MIMD multi-processor structures to implement 
real-time and/or number-crunching applications, with an emphasis on a system approach. Where 
needed, special hardwares, basic software, and application software are developed on a specific 
basis.
Contact:	Nguyen Huu Duyet
		HSP
		43, Boulevard Vauban
		78280 Guyancourt - France
		+33 - 1 - 30 57 31 13
		Fax: +33 - 1 - 30 43 51 17