R12 Release Notes

Chapter 13
Developer's Kit for Texas Instruments^TM DSP 1.0 Release Notes

Introduction to Developer's Kit for Texas Instruments^TM DSP

Developer's Kit for Texas Instruments^TM DSP (DKTI^TM) is a new product that is being introduced in Release 12.

Note    The Developer's Kit for Texas Instruments DSP product is not part of Release 12, but is targeted to be available in the near future.

Composed of three component collections, DKTI lets you develop signal processing systems for the C6701 EVM, and use MATLAB to access and load data to and from the digital signal processor on a target signal processor. The three libraries are

Product Name	Library Name	Description
Target for C6701 EVM		Contains the blockset needed to use Simulink and RTW to create applications for the C6701 EVM. Comprising four blocks, you use this blockset to configure the coder-decoder (codec) and LEDs on the C6701 EVM.
Link for Code Composer Studio IDE		Contains the Target for Code Composer Studio IDE interface software, and ????
Link for RTDX Interface		Contains MATLAB objects and methods for communicating with target digital signal processors on boards installed in your PC, such as the C6701 EVM.

DKTI lets you use Simulink to model floating-point digital signal processing algorithms from blocks in the DSP Blockset, and then use the Real-Time Workshop (RTW) to build ANSI C code targeted to the TMS320C6701 EVM (C6701 EVM). DKTI takes the generated C code and uses Texas Instruments (TI) tools to build C6701 EVM-specific machine code. The build process downloads the targeted machine code to the evaluation module and runs the executable on the TMS320C6701 Digital Signal Processor.

After downloading the code to the board, your digital signal processing application or algorithm runs automatically on the evaluation module. You have the option of compiling your model without downloading the code to the target.

Texas Instruments produces the C6701 EVM to help you create DSP applications for the Texas Instruments TMS320C6701 processor. You can create, test, and deploy your signal processing algorithms or filters on the target processor without the difficulties inherent in starting with the digital signal processor itself and building the support hardware to test the application on the processor. Instead, the C6701 EVM provides the input hardware, output hardware, timing circuitry, memory, and power for the C6701 digital signal processor. Texas Instruments provides the software tools, such as the C compiler, linker, and assembler, and Code Composer Studio (CCS), for you to use your PC to develop, download, and test your algorithms and applications on their C6701 EVM. If you want, you can launch Code Composer Studio Integrated Development Environment (CCS IDE) directly from DKTI by using the CCS IDE target. When you use the CCS IDE option, DKTI launches the integrated development environment and populates a new development project with the files from your RTW build process.

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