[Speex-dev] ARM7 decode resource requirements

[Jean-Marc Valin]

> I'm looking in to using speex for an ARM7 based speech decode
> development (note we need the decode only). My hope is that we should
> be able to run the decoder (in wideband mode) real time on the ARM7
> (40MHz) without any problems (the difficulty would be in the encode -
> but we plan to run that offline on a PC - so we should be OK). Can
> anyone confirm that this is the case please?

I think decoding wideband shouldn't be a problem, even on a slow ARM7.
In the worst case, there are always some approximations possible
(replacing the long FIR filter by an IIR).

> Also I'd like to get a handle on memory requirements, has anyone got
> any rough estimates of the ROM & RAM footprint of the decoder, built
> for the ARM7?

I've never measured that, but it shouldn't take too much space,
especially if you disable all the code (and possibly codebooks) that
aren't used.

> One last question, any estimates for how much of the decoder code is
> in floating point (number of lines of code)?

There's probably in the order of 5-15 lines of floating-point code left,
most (all?) of which outside of loops. Should work in real-time even
with float emulation.

	Jean-Marc