User`s guide

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Screenshot of CCS 3.1
CCS v3.1 comes with a selection of emulators, including a F2812 specific. This is a great
feature considering that the hardware may not always be available. The emulators allow you
to build and even run your programs, though without the features provided by the hardware
such as PWM and ADC.
The Target Support Package and Embedded IDE Link contain Simulink blocks for hardware
setup and hardware specific functions respectively. As noted earlier a guide to these blocks
can be found in the appendix.
It’s when using Simulink that the eZdsp F2812 shows its real strength. An application that
may take hours or even days to write using conventional coding, can easily be implemented in
mere minutes using Simulink standard modeling blocks and a few special blocks for the DSP-
specific features. In fact, Simulink simplifies the coding process to the extent that one may
use it with practically no C-code experience at all – it’s not recommended though, since errors
do occur occasionally. We’ll be looking closer at model building in Simulink in the next
chapter.