User`s guide

75Targeting MC56F83xx/DSP5685x Controllers

Processor Expert Interface

Your CodeWarrior™ IDE features a Processor Expert™ plug-in interface, for rapid

development of embedded applications. This chapter explains Processor Expert

concepts, and Processor Expert additions to the CodeWarrior visual interface. This

chapter includes a brief tutorial exercise.

This chapter contains these sections:

• Processor Expert Overview

• Processor Expert Windows

• Processor Expert Tutorial

Processor Expert Overview

The Processor Expert Interface (PEI) is an integrated development environment for

applications based on DSP56800/E (or many other) embedded microcontrollers. It

reduces development time and cost for applications. Its code makes very efficient use

of microcontroller and peripheral capabilities. Furthermore, it helps develop code that

is highly portable.

Features include:

• Embedded Beans™ components — Each bean encapsulates a basic

functionality of embedded systems, such as CPU core, CPU on-chip peripherals,

and virtual devices. To create an application, you select, modify, and combine the

appropriate beans.

–The Bean Selector window lists all available beans, in an expandable tree

structure. The Bean Selector describes each bean; some descriptions are

extensive.

–The Bean Inspector window lets you modify bean properties, methods,

events, and comments.

• Processor Expert page — This additional page for the CodeWarrior project

window lists project CPUs, beans, and modules, in a tree structure. Selecting or

double-clicking items of the page opens or changes the contents of related

Processor Expert windows.