Apparatus and method for generating DSP code using combination of software modules

• US 20070261023A1
• Filed: 03/23/2007
• Published: 11/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sang-do, Yoon, Jung-min, Choo, Joung-hoon, Kim, Jun-hyeong, Ko, Jae-woo
• Application Number:
  US11/727,063
• Publication Number:
  US 20070261023A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse

Abstract

Provided are an apparatus and method for generating DSP code using a combination of software modules, more particularly, an apparatus and method for generating a DSP code by receiving and combining desired modules. The apparatus includes a storage unit that stores one or more software modules, a DSP-code generator that combines the stored software modules, and generates DSP code executing multimedia content, and a DSP-processing unit that decodes and processes the generated DSP code.

Claims

1. An apparatus for generating digital signal processor (DSP) code, the apparatus comprising:

a storage unit that stores software modules;

a DSP-code generator that combines the software modules stored in the storage unit, and generates DSP code executing multimedia content; and

a DSP-code processing unit that decodes and processes the DSP code generated by the DSP-code generator.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the software modules comprise at least one of an OS, a codec library, a media framework, and a hardware library.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a controller that generates a message requesting download of a software module, and transmits the message to a codec server in an external network if the software module can execute the multimedia content.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the software module transmitted from the codec server is a codec library.

5. A method of generating digital signal processor (DSP) code, the method comprising:

requesting the DSP code to play multimedia content;

determining whether a codec library for playing the multimedia content exists;

generating the DSP code using a combination of the codec library and a software module if it is determined that the codec library exists; and

playing the multimedia content by decoding the generated DSP.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the software module is at least one of an OS, a media framework, and a hardware library.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

requesting a codec server from an external network if the codec library does not exist; and

downloading the codec library from the codec server.