Texas Instruments TMS320C8x DSP Development Tools

The expanded family of software development tools for the Texas Instruments TMS320C8x generation of DSPs now operates on standard desktop PCs under the current version of Windows NT™ (Version 3.5). The tools will also be compatible with Windows 95™, expected later this year. The TMS320C8x development tools include:

• Software Development Board (SDB)
  • Permits development, check-out and debugging using a 40mhz
  • 'C80 device, rather than a simulator
  • Executes code in real time before hardware development is complete
  • Designed to plug into a standard PCI interface slot for rapid frame memory reading and writing

• Register Allocator
  • Streamlines code development by efficiently managing variable usage of registers
• Code Compactor
  • Allows code writing in standard linear fashion
  • Optimizes code by converting single instructions into parallel instructions where possible
• Debugger
  • High-level language debugger simplifies the design and debug of 'C8x-based systems
  • Provides visibility to chip registers
  • Automatic expression analyzer promotes user-defined debugging tasks by permitting usage of an expression as part of a command
  • Parallel DSP/RISC debug manager enables multiple debuggers to be coordinated simultaneously within a multiprocessor system
• Optimizing C Compiler
  • Help increase productivity and code portability
• DSP Algebraic Assembler
  • Generates code faster and more accurately in an easy-to-understand algebraic format
• Linker
  • Links together all code modules for the 'C8x master processor and parallel processors
• Multitasking Executive
• Full Emulation Environment
  • Conducted via the 1149.1 boundary scan standard
  • Allows scanning at rates independent of internal device clock rates
  • Enables a full view of the 'C8x internal buses and analysis blocks within the processors for easy manipulation and programmability
• Support
  • Comprehensive four-day training course
  • Free TMS320 DSP telephone hotline
  • E-mail

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