this invention describes a numeric intensive development environment for producing code for various fixed point dsp &# 39 ; s and providing a debug capability that assists the user by displaying various data from the dsp in various formats . the dsp code is created in a dsp - c language which is based on low level assembly language tools enhanced with extensive native mathematical representation formats and high level language syntax . this provides the advantage of handling numeric representation in high level language and optimizing the code for speed and compactness in low level language . once the code is created in dsp - c it can be connected to a dsp through a driver and driver interface . the driver interface allows the code to be universal with a different driver being used to connect the code to different dsp &# 39 ; s . in debug mode data from a target dsp is continuously fetched allowing the user to make real time modifications to the code and get real time feed back of the results .