User`s guide

Introduction to Developer’s Kit for Texas Instruments™ DSP
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The Developer’s Kit 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 to build ANSI C code targeted to the TMS320C6701 EVM
(C6701 EVM). The Developer’s Kit 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 in CCS IDE 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. You can launch Code Composer Studio
Integrated Development Environment (CCS IDE) directly from the Developer’s
Kit. When you use the targeting option, the Developer’s Kit launches the
integrated development environment and populates a new development project
with the files from your Real-Time Workshop build process. You select whether
the process downloads your code to the target, or stops after it builds the new
project.