Bassios, A. D.2013-09-272013-09-272013-09-27http://hdl.handle.net/10539/13161Thesis (M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Engineering, 1987.The use of digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to implement functions traditionally done by analogue methods is becoming increasingly popular amongst researchers and designers working in the telecommunications field. A good DSP design approach is to first simulate on a computer using a high level language. Problems exist with large unstructured simulations involving a number of users. This report presents a flexible and user friendly simulation structure to aid designers of radios using DSP techniques and components . The needs of the simulation users are investigated and a number of structures are evaluated. The shell of the simulation is then described. The simulation presented gives the user the ability to easily simulate the effects of different wordlengths of both fixed and floating point DSP microproces sorsenThesis