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Parasoft C/C++test Supports Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio™ IDE v5

JohnS — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:16:00 GMT

Parasoft C/C++test Integrates with TI's Code Composer Studio IDE v5

Monrovia, CA November 8, 2011 Parasoft Corporation, leading provider of automated solutions that improve software quality and the development process, announced today the integration of #Parasoft C/C++test with Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment (IDE) v5 for embedded processor families from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). Parasoft C/C++test is the industry's most comprehensive testing solution for C and C++ development.

"Parasoft has long supported the TI's Code Composer Studio IDE. TI and Parasoft customers realize significant productivity gains by integrating Parasoft's comprehensive automated defect prevention capabilities within TI's Code Composer Studio IDE," stated Wayne Ariola, VP of Strategy, Parasoft.

"With Parasoft's comprehensive C/C++ testing solution integrated in TI's Code Composer Studio IDE v5, developers of TI's embedded devices can efficiently create quality, leading-edge software," said John Stevenson, product and applications manager, Software Development Organization, TI.

TI's Code Composer Studio IDE v5 combines the advantages of Eclipse with advanced debugging capabilities. The result is a cohesive environment with an array of features for cost-efficient, simple embedded processing. Parasoft C/C++test integration, together with Parasoft Concerto, helps embedded developers ensure that reliable and compliant software can be produced consistently and efficiently—driving unprecedented levels of productivity and application quality.

To learn more about Parasoft C/C++test, please see our C/C++test for embedded page.

Vector Software Expands Support for Code Composer Studio™ IDE Version 5

JohnS — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:14:00 GMT

Latest integration allows TI customers to leverage the benefit of VectorCAST™ automated testing without leaving the TI IDE

Providence, RI – 11/8/2011 - Vector Software, the leading provider of software testing applications for embedded systems, announced today the integration of the VectorCAST product suite with the industry-leading Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment (IDE) version 5 from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI).

Code Composer Studio is based on the Eclipse open source software framework and runs on the Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® environments. The IDE provides a single user interface to take developers through each step of the application development flow. It includes a suite of tools that simplifies software design for embedded processing applications by accelerating software code development, analysis, and debugging through a common development environment.

"We are pleased to be able to expand our offering within the TI user community. This newest integration helps customers comply with industry requirements while developing within the Code Composer Studio IDE," commented Bill McCaffrey, Chief Operating Officer at Vector Software. "All testing can be done on production hardware, evaluation boards, or with the built-in Code Composer Studio instruction set simulators. Additionally, tests can be executed under control of the Code Composer Studio debugger in the Eclipse IDE."

"Vector Software's VectorCAST product suite is now more integrated with TI's Code Composer Studio IDE than ever before, offering users an easy and comprehensive approach to dynamic software testing," said John Stevenson, product and applications manager, Software Development Organization, TI. "With the availability of Code Composer Studio IDE v5, VectorCAST continues to help TI's customers accelerate time to market and produce software of the highest quality."

Code Composer Studio is compatible across many devices within TI's broad embedded processing portfolio, including single and multicore digital signal processors, microcontrollers, video processors, and microprocessors.

For more information about VectorCAST and Code Composer Studio IDE v5, visit: http://www.vectorcast.com/testing-solutions/compilers-code-composer.php

First Fully-Integrated Wireless Blackhawk™ JTAG Emulator Supports TI's Code Composer Studio™ IDE v5.1

JohnS — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:13:41 GMT

Blackhawk™, a leader in the design of digital signal processor (DSP) hardware and software development tools, today announced the first fully-integrated wireless JTAG emulator (USB510W) for Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment (IDE) version 5.1 from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI).

The USB510W has an embedded 802.11 b/g/n wireless transceiver so that it requires no physical connection to a computer in order to debug using Code Composer Studio IDE. The primary benefit of this capability is to completely isolate the debug, test and development computer from the target system. This will protect the developer from harsh environments and the development computer from damaging ground loop voltages, such as those found in high-voltage motor control applications.

"This is needed functionality for customers who are debugging any line-connected equipment where voltage isolation is required, including electric motor drives," said Chris Clearman, worldwide marketing manager, Motor Control Solutions, TI. "This means the debug engineer does not have to be tethered to the target, or even in the same room."

The integrated wireless feature of the USB510W is capable of supporting the following wireless protocols and speeds: 802.11n: 6.5, 13, 19.5, 26, 39, 52, 58.5 & 65 Mbps; 802.11ag: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, & 54 Mbps, and 802.11b: 1, 2, 5.5 & 11 Mbps.

The USB510W software is fully integrated with Code Composer Studio IDE and offers a high-speed USB 2.0 host connection that can be used for wireless configuration and emulation debug. Other features include a 20-pin cTI JTAG cable connection, pin converters for other target headers, operational LEDs for the USB and wireless interfaces, auto-ranging TCK up to 50 MHz and target I/O support from 1.8 to 5.0 volts.

The USB510W supports TI's embedded fixed- and floating-point processors, including Stellaris® ARM® Cortex™-M microcontrollers (MCUs), Sitara™ ARM9™ and ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessors, DaVinci™ digital media processors, OMAP™ mobile applications processors, C6000™ and C5000™ DSPs and real-time control C2000™ MCUs.

Blackhawk JTAG Emulators and other development tools are available for immediate delivery in the U.S. andCanada through Corelis in Ceritos, CA and Ultimate Solutions (USI), based in Tewksbury, Mass., and a global network of industry resellers. Please visit www.blackhawk-dsp.com/resellers.aspx for a complete list.

Code Composer Studio v5.1 is now available

JohnS — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:17:00 GMT

Code Composer Studio v5.1 is now available for download on the Code Composer Studio Download page. This release represents a significant advancement over Code Composer Studio v4. Some of the key reasons to upgrade are:

Simplified user interface: CCS has always had a lot of features, however that can also be overwhelming. With this release we have simplified the user interface (fewer buttons, menu items, windows) so that it is easier to get started with CCS.
Smaller download: it is no secret that CCS has gotten BIG over the past few years. With v5 you start with downloading a very small shell installer (<2MB). Once you make your installation selections it then downloads the packages that are necessary. This will save you hundreds of MB on your download.
Linux: CCSv5 is the first release to support both Windows and Linux PCs. You can now run CCS on your Linux PC. There are some differences in device support and features that are documented here.
Updated Eclipse: CCS is based on the Eclipse open source software framework. In the past at TI we have taken Eclipse and modified it to suit our needs. One of the big disadvantages of that approach is that it makes it hard to keep up with the latest Eclipse releases. CCSv5 uses the latest Eclipse release and there are no changes. This means that we can keep pace with the latest advances in Eclipse. CCSv5 uses Eclipse 3.7 which represents 5 years of fixes and new features over the Eclipse 3.2 that is in CCSv4. It also greatly improves compatibility with the thousands of Eclipse plug-ins that are available.
Resource Explorer: The Resource Explorer detects if you have packages like ControlSUITE, StellarisWare or MSP430ware installed and enables you to access any of the example projects contained in these packages.

There are also new features that are applicable to different device families.

Users of ARM application processors should check out Linux/Android application debug. As CCS is now based on the latest Eclipse it is possible to perform Linux/Android application debug from the same environment that you do your low level debug, i.e. CCS. You can use CCS to do kernel module debug via your JTAG emulator and you can also launch gdb to do run-mode application debug. Drop in the Android development tools and you can even do JAVA application debug!

MSP430 users can take advantage of new functionality in Grace. Grace is a tool that allows you as an MSP430 developer to generate the peripheral’s set up code within minutes. This will save you much of the work of poring through user guides and copying code examples and allow you to focus on the more important aspects of your application.

Multi-core C667x and C647x users can leverage the Multi-core System Analyzer. System Analyzer is a suite of tools that provide real-time visibility into the performance and behavior of your code, and allow you to analyze information that is collected from software and hardware instrumentation in a number of different ways across multiple cores..

For C6000 users C6EZFlo is a graphical development tool that creates working C6000 DSP applications from an intuitive block diagram view. C6EZFlo provides optimized processing algorithms and peripheral I/O support.

The CCSv5 wiki has more information including workshops and tutorials.

CCSv5.1.0: Final Release Candidate now available

Ki-Soo Lee — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:47:26 GMT

Last release candidate for CCSv5.1.0 (Build 5.1.0.09000) is now available for both Windows and Linux at:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Download_CCS

This is the version that should go into production week of Nov 7. Now is the opportunity to give it a last try before the official release.

Nabil Naccache
Project Manager, Code Composer Studio

Polycore Software announces support for TI DSPs

tscheck — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:23:11 GMT

PolyCore Software (http://www.polycoresoftware.com/) has announced support of TI’s KeyStone family of multicore devices with their Poly-Platform tools and run-time. Poly-Platform is a development framework consisting of tools and run-time software, providing a programming model for applications to scale from one to many cores. Poly-Platform is Eclipse-based and works with Code Composer Studio v5 and DSP BIOS for a seamless development environment and provides rapid development tools for MCAPI programming and topology configurations.

See http://www.polycoresoftware.com/products.php for more information.

CriticalBlue announces support for TI C66x DSPs

tscheck — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:22:00 GMT

CriticalBlue(http://www.criticalblue.com/) has announced support of TI c66x device architectures as part of their PRISM product offering. PRISM is an Eclipse-based multicore analysis and exploration tool intended to enable developers to evaluate parallelization strategies of their existing application software. With PRISM users can take their existing serial application software and explore how to migrate and best capitalize on TI multicore architectures without any upfront code changes. It is as easy as taking your existing software running today on a single processor, compiling and running in the standard TI simulator, capturing simulator traces, and importing into PRISM. PRISM can then be used to determine the best path to start implementing the application for TI multicore devices including identifying potential data dependencies only visible when parallelizing software execution on multiple processors. The power of the tools lie in their ability to allow rapid prototyping of various parallelization strategies prior to implementation of software changes.

See http://www.criticalblue.com/prism/ti/ for more information and software downloads.

Support for C66x Simulation in CCSv5.0.2

tscheck — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:28:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the production release of the C6670 and C6678 functional and cycle approximate simulators. These simulators are integrated into the CCSv5.0.2 release, which can be downloaded at:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Category:Code_Composer_Studio_v5

This release and upgraded EMU package will also support our upcoming TMDXEVM6670L and TMDXEVM6678L EVMs, which can be pre-ordered here:

http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/tmdxevm6670.html

http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/tmdxevm6678.html

Keep your eyes open for our C66x Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK), which will be posted later in 3/2011 here:

http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/bioslinuxmcsdk.html

Note that C66x device queries should be posted to the C66x Multicore E2E forum, while development tool queries should be posted to the CCS or Compiler forums as appropriate. When the MCSDK becomes available, all MCSDK related queries should be posted to the BIOS forum.

Code Composer Studio Wiki

Blake Ethridge — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:49:00 GMT

Wanting to learn more about Code Composer Studio (CCS)? Be sure to visit our Wiki with in-depth documentation and training videos.

Visit the Code Composer Studio Wiki >