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Glossary-2 DSP Tools User’s Manual Motorola
overlaying is a strategy of repeatedly using the same location in memory for the
execution of different pieces of code at different times during the execution in order to
maximize limited memory.
radix is the basis for computing the value of a group of digits. For example, the digits 32
represent the number thirty-two when the radix is decimal but the number fifty when
the radix is hexadecimal; likewise, the digits 101 represent one-hundred one in decimal
radix, but five in binary radix.
relocatable object file is one in which the locations of symbols in memory are expressed
relatively. The file can thus be relocated on the basis of an absolute position supplied
later to produce an absolute executable file before execution.
simulation is a software implementation of a hardware phenomenon.
simulator is a program implementing hardware phenomena in software.