Kit enables visualisation of DSP applications

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Feb 22, 2002

A new DSP developers kit kit enables systems and software engineers to develop and verify DSP algorithms in one integrated environment, and therefore produce designs more efficiently.

The MathWorks developer's kit for Texas Instruments DSP 1.2 provides improved integration with eXpressDSP software and development tools through its compatibility with Code Composer Studio 2.0 and 2.1.

It also provides expanded code generation support for popular TI DSP devices.

The new developer's kit provides faster, bidirectional data transfer between Matlab and TI DSPs, enabling analysis and visualisation of DSP applications.

It also extends support for TI's RTDX (Real-Time Data Exchange) technology to Simulink for bidirectional, real-time host/target data exchange without halting the target.

The new RTDX blocks provide a real-time "window" into a running DSP application.

The developer's kit now also provides a TMS320C6711 DSK (DSP starter kit) code generation target from Simulink and Real-Time Workshop.

Useful for rapid prototyping, this target lets DSP developers validate and verify DSP applications from the Simulink environment and automatically build, execute and download the program to the C6711DSK board for real-time evaluation.

Finally, the kit supports TI's Code Composer Studio XDS510 emulator as a hardware target for intensive software debugging.

"We are committed to providing our customers with enhancements to a reliable product that will speed TI DSP-based applications to market", said Ken Karnofsky, Director of Marketing, DSP and Communications at The MathWorks.

"With the new features, engineers can validate their DSP designs earlier and focus on code optimisation and design innovation".

"The unique integration of Matlab with Code Composer Studio and the product enhancements to the developer's kit for Texas Instruments DSP allows software engineers working on TMS320 DSPs to be exceptionally confident in the code they deliver", said Omar Fattah, eXpressDSP Plug-in Manager at Texas Instruments.

"Since the inception of our collaboration with The MathWorks in 2000, our strategy to provide tools that empower our customers to quickly design, simulate and validate the performance of DSP algorithms in real-time has proven extremely successful".

The developer's kit for Texas Instruments DSP 1.2 is currently shipping for Microsoft Windows 2000, NT and 98 operating systems, and works with Code Composer Studio 2.0 and Code Composer Studio 2.1 from TI.