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News Release from: CoWare | Subject: SPW 5-XP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 February 2005
Software integration speeds DSP
applications
A new option for the SPW 5-XP digital signal processing application solution for the Microsoft Windows operating system enables early verification of complex embedded DSP designs.
CoWare has added a new option for its SPW 5-XP digital signal processing (DSP) application solution for the Microsoft Windows operating system that enables early verification of complex embedded DSP designs Developed in co-operation with Texas Instruments, the new option allows design teams developing DSP applications to reuse their SPW 5-XP reference models for verification of embedded software for TI TMS320C6000 and C5000 DSP platforms developed using TI's Code Composer Studio (CCStudio) integrated development environment (IDE)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We are pleased to work with one of the most recognised technology leaders in electronic system-level design to help ease DSP design for our customers", said Jennifer Skinner-Gray, WW DSP Partner Network Manager, TI.
"The integration between SPW 5-XP and CCStudio provides our catalog customers with greater tool choice, and our premier customers with integration into the market leading design flow centred around the SystemC language".
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"CoWare appears to be serious about embedded software", said DSP analyst Will Strauss, Forward Concepts.
"The new SPW and TI CCStudio integration emulates the success they are having with ConvergenSC and ARM support, combined with their LIsaTek technology for programmable accelerators".
"CoWare certainly bears watching in the advanced DSP design space".
The complexity of applications running on TI DSPs is steadily increasing, and although designers can alter TI DSP software after production, it is difficult for them to find bugs if the software is not running concurrently with a transparent testbench.
Debugging prior to lab integration is becoming an integral part of the design flow to meet time-to-market requirements, and using physical prototypes is a very time consuming process.
An SPW reference simulation offers an easier option.
The link between SPW 5-XP and CCStudio ties the detailed reference design of the communications designer with the optimised software implementation of the embedded software engineer, helping achieve the requisite communications system performance and real-time and power consumption specifications.
Once a subsystem in SPW is identified for implementation on the TI processor, the application designer will provide the reference C-code for those blocks to the embedded software developer for optimisation to the TI target.
After the initial target code is created, the application designer can connect the SPW reference testbench surrounding the target subsystem to the TI CCStudio IDE processor model simulating the target code.
With the easy to use, high performance SPW simulation driving TI CCStudio, the application designer or embedded software developer can debug/verify that the optimised embedded code performs functionally identically to the SPW reference model.
SPW 5-XP with TI CCStudio integration beta software will ship by 15th April 2005.
Interested customers can get prerelease access to the technology platform immediately.
SPW 5-XP can be downloaded for evaluation from the CoWare website.
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