Announcements

MCSDK 3.0 Beta Release Available for KeyStone II Devices

Raj Sivarajan — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:21:00 GMT

MCSDK 3.0 Beta is available for download.

The MCSDK provides foundational software for TI KeyStone II device platforms. It encapsulates a collection of software elements and tools intended to enable customer application development and migration.

The foundational components include:

SYS/BIOS real-time embedded operating system on DSP cores
Linux high-level operating system running on ARM A15 cluster (SMP mode)
DSP chip support libraries, DSP/ARM drivers, and basic platform utilities
Interprocessor communication for communication across cores and devices
SoC resource management
Optimized application-specific (small cell, transport) and application non-specific algorithm libraries
Trace debug and instrumentation
Bootloaders and boot utilities, power-on self test
Demonstrations and examples
ARM software libraries available in Linux devkit or via Arago/Yocto
Latest toolchain (ARM Linaro, DSP TI CodeGen)
Host tools, integrated development environment

For more information, see the User Guide.

Release of Desktop Linux SDK v1.0

tscheck — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:52:44 GMT

This is the Production release for R1.0.0 Desktop Linux SDK

The Desktop Linux SDK package provides a software development environment to help offload highly compute intensive processing from a desktop Linux PC to power efficient TI C66x multi-core DSPs through the PCIE interface.

For more information, see http://software-dl.ti.com/sdoemb/sdoemb_public_sw/desktop_linux_sdk/latest/index_FDS.html

Release of MCSDK Video v2.1

tscheck — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:10:58 GMT

This is a production release for the R2.1.0 Multicore Video Infrastructure Demo Built on MCSDK.

This package of Multicore Video Infrastructure Demo Built on MCSDK (called as MCSDK Video in short thereafter) provides software development environment to implement and demonstrate real-time video applications on TI C66x multi-core DSPs.

The MCSDK Video 2.1 is built leveraging two SDKs.

BIOS-MCSDK [SDK is DSP internal and provides platform abstraction, networking, inter-core communication, etc. For more details, please see BIOS MCSDK Getting Started Guide and BIOS MCSDK User Guide]
Desktop Linux SDK [SDK abstracts the messaging, PCIe transport and data I/O between host processor and DSP. For more details please see Desktop Linux SDK Getting Started Guide and Desktop Linux SDK Development Guide].

MCSDK Video 2.1 provides video specific software modules and video/image Codecs along with several out of box demos. MCSDK Video 2.1 application (along with the SDKs) provides complete development environment [host + DSP] to offload real-time video applications to TI C66x multi-core DSPs.

For more info and download access refer to http://software-dl.ti.com/sdoemb/sdoemb_public_sw/mcsdk_video/latest/index_FDS.html

TI provides self-paced online training that introduces the primary components of the KeyStone II family of SoC devices

Blake Ethridge — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:34:00 GMT

TI provides self-paced online training that introduces the primary components of the KeyStone II family of SoC devices.

KeyStone II SoC Overview provides a high-level view of the device architecture, including the C66x and ARM Cortex-A15 processors, memory and transport topologies, networking and interface enhancements, as well as power saving and debug features for the KeyStone II family of C66x multicore devices.
KeyStone II Software Overview describes the software development ecosystem for the KeyStone II family of C66x multicore devices from both a Linux and SYS/BIOS perspective.
KeyStone II ARM Cortex-A15 Corepac Overview introduces the implementation of the ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor in the KeyStone II family of C66x multicore devices.

BIOS-MCSDK 2.1.2: Maintenance update for C66x BIOS-MCSDK

Raj Sivarajan — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:20:56 GMT

BIOS MCSDK 2.1.2 is available for download; this is a maintenance update for the production R2.1.0 release. This update can be manually downloaded or automatically downloaded directly from CCS using Eclipse Update Manager; see the BIOS MCSDK User's Guide for details on setting up automatic software updates.

The major updates from the last maintenance release, BIOS MCSDK 2.1.1, are:

Introduction of OpenEM component
OMP performance enhancement
POST/PlatformLib update to PLL initialization
Bug fixes (see the Release Notes for full list)

The major updates in past maintenance releases from the production release are:

Production quality software for TMS320C6657
McBSP LLD for TMS320C6657

The BIOS Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) provides the core foundational building blocks that facilitate application software development on TI's high performance and multicore DSPs. This software release gives developers the ability to evaluate major software capabilities of KeyStone family devices TMS320C6657, TMS320C6678, and TMS320C6670 and quickly begin application development. Support is provided for the TMDXEVM6657L/LE, TMDSEVM6678L/LE/LXE, and TMDSEVM6670L/LE/LXE evaluation boards and C66x simulators.

The foundational components include:

SYS/BIOS which is a light-weight real-time embedded operating system for TI devices
Chip support libraries, drivers, and basic platform utilities
Interprocessor communication for communication across cores and devices
Basic networking stack and protocols
Optimized application-specific and application non-specific algorithm libraries
Debug and instrumentation
Bootloader and boot utilities
Demonstrations and examples

See the following wiki pages for more information:

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. MCSDK related queries should be posted to the BIOS forum. See the support section of the User's Guide for more information.

BIOS-MCSDK 2.1.1: Maintenance update for C66x BIOS-MCSDK

Raj Sivarajan — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:17:31 GMT

BIOS MCSDK 2.1.1 is available for download; this is a maintenance update for the production R2.1.0 release. This update can be manually downloaded or automatically downloaded directly from CCS using Eclipse Update Manager; see the BIOS MCSDK User's Guide for details on setting up automatic software updates.

The major updates from the production release, BIOS MCSDK 2.1.0, are:

Production quality software for TMS320C6657
McBSP LLD for TMS320C6657
Bug fixes (see the Release Notes for full list)

The foundational components include:

SYS/BIOS which is a light-weight real-time embedded operating system for TI devices
Chip support libraries, drivers, and basic platform utilities
Interprocessor communication for communication across cores and devices
Basic networking stack and protocols
Optimized application-specific and application non-specific algorithm libraries
Debug and instrumentation
Bootloader and boot utilities
Demonstrations and examples

See the following wiki pages for more information:

BIOS-MCSDK 2.1.0: OpenMP for C66x Multicore DSP

Raj Sivarajan — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:37:35 GMT

The production release of BIOS-MCSDK 2.1 is available for download. This release introduces OpenMP as a multicore programming methodology for TMS320C6678 and TMS320C6670. This release can be manually downloaded or automatically downloaded directly from CCS using Eclipse Update Manager; see the BIOS-MCSDK User's Guide for details on setting up automatic software updates.

The BIOS Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) provides the core foundational building blocks that facilitate application software development on TI's high performance and multicore DSPs. This software release gives developers the ability to evaluate major software capabilities of KeyStone family devices TMS320C6657, TMS320C6678, and TMS320C6670 and quickly begin application development. Support is provided for the TMDXEVM6657L/LE, TMDXEVM6678L/LE, and TMDXEVM6670L/LE evaluation boards.

The foundational components include:

SYS/BIOS which is a light-weight real-time embedded operating system for TI devices
Chip support libraries, drivers, and basic platform utilities
Interprocessor communication for communication across cores and devices
Basic networking stack and protocols
Optimized application-specific and application non-specific algorithm libraries
Debug and instrumentation
Bootloader and boot utilities
Demonstrations and examples

See the following wiki pages for more information:

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. MCSDK-related queries should be posted to the BIOS forum. See the support section of the User's Guide for more information.

Note that OpenMP is not supported on TMS320C6657 and the software for that part is the same Beta-quality as in BIOS-MCSDK 2.0.9; the production quality is planned for the BIOS-MCSDK 2.1.1 maintenance update.

Integre Technologies Announces HyperLink DSP Interface FPGA Core

Chad Courtney — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:30:00 GMT

Integre Technologies (http:/www.integretek.com/) has announced the release of the IP-HyperLink high speed digital signal processor (DSP) interface core for both Altera and Xilinx device families.

The announcement can be found here http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/6/prweb9643885.htm

Details regarding the HyperLink DSP Interface from Integre Technologies can be found here http://www.integretek.com/products/Hyperlink.html.

BIOS-MCSDK 2.1.0 Beta Available for C66x DSP OpenMP Support

Raj Sivarajan — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:31:00 GMT

BIOS MCSDK 2.1.0 Beta is available for download. This release introduces OpenMP support for TMS320C6678. Note that this is a beta quality release; for the production quality release of C66X, see BIOS-MCSDK 2.0.9.

The major updates from the baseline release, BIOS MCSDK 2.0.9, are:

OpenMP runtime component
CGT 7.4 Beta2
OpenMP version of Image Processing Demo

The BIOS Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) provides the core foundational building blocks that facilitate application software development on TI's high performance and multicore DSPs. This software release gives developers the ability to evaluate major software capabilities of KeyStone family devices TMS320C6657, TMS320C6678, and TMS320C6670 and quickly begin application development. Support is provided for the TMDXEVM6657L, TMDXEVM6678L, and TMDXEVM6670L evaluation boards and C66x simulators found in CCS 5.1.1.

The foundational components include:

SYS/BIOS which is a light-weight real-time embedded operating system for TI devices
Chip support libraries, drivers, and basic platform utilities
Interprocessor communication for communication across cores and devices
Basic networking stack and protocols
Optimized application-specific and application non-specific algorithm libraries
Debug and instrumentation
Bootloader and boot utilities
Demonstrations and examples

See the following wiki pages for more information:

BIOS-MCSDK 2.0.9: Maintenance update for C66x BIOS-MCSDK + C6657 support

Raj Sivarajan — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:59:52 GMT

BIOS MCSDK 2.0.9 is available for download; this is a maintenance update for the production R2.0.0 release. This update can be manually downloaded or automatically downloaded directly from CCS using Eclipse Update Manager; see the BIOS MCSDK User's Guide for details on setting up automatic software updates.

The major updates from the last maintenance release, BIOS MCSDK 2.0.8, are:

Support for TMS320C6657 (beta quality)
Bug fixes (see the Release Notes for full list)

The major updates in past maintenance releases from the production release are:

CPPI cache fix
New LLDs: AIF2 (C6670 only) and RM
Support for TMS320C6678 PG 2.0 devices
Optimized PLL and DDR configurations in IBL and Platform Library
Added support for MAD prelinker bypass mode
Added program_evm script to simplify updating EVM flash contents
Added IBL command-line tool to modify configuration
Added POST print of configuration registers
IPC transport optimizations for SRIO and QMSS
New kernels and platforms support in DSPLIB and IMGLIB
Updated IPC component
Bug fix for PA LLD for mismatch between the OSAL begin and end tags
Added Linux development host support (install and build in Linux)
Update to SYS/BIOS for C6678 interrupt fix
Added PCIe example for C6670 EVM
Added ability to do NDK loopback in out-of-box demonstration (HUA)
Updates to CSL, SRIO LLD, and HyperLink LLD
Updated foundational target software (SYS/BIOS, IPC, XDC)
Added multicore application deployment tool (MAD)
Updated Code Generation Tools to version 7.2.4

The BIOS Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) provides the core foundational building blocks that facilitate application software development on TI's high performance and multicore DSPs. This software release gives developers the ability to evaluate major software capabilities of KeyStone family devices TMS320C6657, TMS320C6678, and TMS320C6670 and quickly begin application development. Support is provided for the TMDXEVM6657L, TMDXEVM6678L, and TMDXEVM6670L evaluation boards and C66x simulators found in CCS 5.1.1.

The foundational components include:

SYS/BIOS which is a light-weight real-time embedded operating system for TI devices
Chip support libraries, drivers, and basic platform utilities
Interprocessor communication for communication across cores and devices
Basic networking stack and protocols
Optimized application-specific and application non-specific algorithm libraries
Debug and instrumentation
Bootloader and boot utilities
Demonstrations and examples

See the following wiki pages for more information:

BIOS-MCSDK 2.0.8: Maintenance update for C66x BIOS-MCSDK

Raj Sivarajan — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:34:04 GMT

BIOS MCSDK 2.0.8 is available for download; this is a maintenance update for the production R2.0.0 release. This update can be manually downloaded or automatically downloaded directly from CCS using Eclipse Update Manager; see the BIOS MCSDK User's Guide for details on setting up automatic software updates.

The major updates from the last maintenance release, BIOS MCSDK 2.0.7, are:

CPPI cache fix
Bug fixes (see the Release Notes for full list)

The major updates in past maintenance releases from the production release are:

New LLDs: AIF2 (C6670 only) and RM
Support for TMS320C6678 PG 2.0 devices
Optimized PLL and DDR configurations in IBL and Platform Library
Added support for MAD prelinker bypass mode
Added program_evm script to simplify updating EVM flash contents
Added IBL command-line tool to modify configuration
Added POST print of configuration registers
IPC transport optimizations for SRIO and QMSS
New kernels and platforms support in DSPLIB and IMGLIB
Updated IPC component
Bug fix for PA LLD for mismatch between the OSAL begin and end tags
Added Linux development host support (install and build in Linux)
Update to SYS/BIOS for C6678 interrupt fix
Added PCIe example for C6670 EVM
Added ability to do NDK loopback in out-of-box demonstration (HUA)
Updates to CSL, SRIO LLD, and HyperLink LLD
Updated foundational target software (SYS/BIOS, IPC, XDC)
Added multicore application deployment tool (MAD)
Updated Code Generation Tools to version 7.2.4

The BIOS Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) provides the core foundational building blocks that facilitate application software development on TI's high performance and multicore DSPs. This software release gives developers the ability to evaluate major software capabilities of KeyStone family devices TMS320C6678 and TMS320C6670 and quickly begin application development. Support is provided for the TMDXEVM6678L and TMDXEVM6670L evaluation boards and C66x simulators found in CCS 5.1.1.

The foundational components include:

SYS/BIOS which is a light-weight real-time embedded operating system for TI devices
Chip support libraries, drivers, and basic platform utilities
Interprocessor communication for communication across cores and devices
Basic networking stack and protocols
Optimized application-specific and application non-specific algorithm libraries
Debug and instrumentation
Bootloader and boot utilities
Demonstrations and examples

See the following wiki pages for more information:

BIOS-MCSDK 2.0.7: Maintenance update for C66x BIOS-MCSDK

Raj Sivarajan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:07:38 GMT

BIOS MCSDK 2.0.7 is available for download; this is a maintenance update for the production R2.0.0 release. This update can be manually downloaded or automatically downloaded directly from CCS using Eclipse Update Manager; see the BIOS MCSDK User's Guide for details on setting up automatic software updates.

The major updates from the last maintenance release, BIOS MCSDK 2.0.6, are:

New LLDs: AIF2 (C6670 only) and RM
Bug fixes (see the Release Notes for full list)

The major updates in past maintenance releases from the production release are:

Support for TMS320C6678 PG 2.0 devices
Optimized PLL and DDR configurations in IBL and Platform Library
Added support for MAD prelinker bypass mode
Added program_evm script to simplify updating EVM flash contents
Added IBL command-line tool to modify configuration
Added POST print of configuration registers
IPC transport optimizations for SRIO and QMSS
New kernels and platforms support in DSPLIB and IMGLIB
Updated IPC component
Bug fix for PA LLD for mismatch between the OSAL begin and end tags
Added Linux development host support (install and build in Linux)
Update to SYS/BIOS for C6678 interrupt fix
Added PCIe example for C6670 EVM
Added ability to do NDK loopback in out-of-box demonstration (HUA)
Updates to CSL, SRIO LLD, and HyperLink LLD
Updated foundational target software (SYS/BIOS, IPC, XDC)
Added multicore application deployment tool (MAD)
Updated Code Generation Tools to version 7.2.4

The BIOS Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) provides the core foundational building blocks that facilitate application software development on TI's high performance and multicore DSPs. This software release gives developers the ability to evaluate major software capabilities of KeyStone family devices TMS320C6678 and TMS320C6670 and quickly begin application development. Support is provided for the TMDXEVM6678L and TMDXEVM6670L evaluation boards and C66x simulators found in CCS 5.1.0.

The foundational components include:

SYS/BIOS which is a light-weight real-time embedded operating system for TI devices
Chip support libraries, drivers, and basic platform utilities
Interprocessor communication for communication across cores and devices
Basic networking stack and protocols
Optimized application-specific and application non-specific algorithm libraries
Debug and instrumentation
Bootloader and boot utilities
Demonstrations and examples

See the following wiki pages for more information:

Production Release of MCSDK-Video 2.0 is available for download

tscheck — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:40:00 GMT

The production release of MCSDK-VIDEO 2.0 is available for download.

This package of Multicore Video Infrastructure Demo Built on MCSDK provides software development environment to implement real-time video applications on TI C66x multi-core DSPs. It also provides a codec integration and test application to facilitate the integration and testing of standalone codecs.

The MCSDK Video builds on Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) to achieve platform abstraction, networking, and inter-core communication. It provides DSP components and integrates video codecs to demonstrate various video applications on TI's high performance and multicore DSPs TMS320C6678 .

This package includes

Multicore Video codecs
Video processing components
Packet streaming, handling components
Multimedia Containers components
Demo Apps

See the following wiki pages for more information:

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. MCSDK and MCSDK-Video Demo related queries should be posted to the BIOS forum.

Production release of Linux-MCSDK 2.0

Raj Sivarajan — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:07:07 GMT

The production release of Linux-MCSDK 2.0 is available for download from ti.com. The release is also available from linux-c6x.org.

The major updates from Beta-2 are:

Added ./prj config to automate setup
Added ./prj build to standardize interface to make
Enhanced top level make, reduce rebuilds
Integrated bootloader and program_evm HW updater scripts
Added ./bootblob <template>|all facility to configure filesystem and kernel images JIT
Built JFFS images (JIT w/ templates)
Integrated full-root into top level build
Fixed boot from NAND on 6670, 6474/72/57 in Big Endian
Fixed i2c EEPROM read/write from Linux on 6678
Various fixes for DDR3 and PLL initialization stability

The Linux Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) provides support for feature rich Linux ecosystem to the TI KeyStone (C66x) and C64x family of single and multicore digital signal processors. The project is intended to bring support for high performance applications to TI’s high performance C6000 family of devices.

This software release gives developers ability to evaluate major software capabilities for:

KeyStone (C66x) family devices TMS320C6678 and TMS320C6670
C64x family devices: TMS320C6472, TMS320C6474, TMS320C6455 and TMS320C6457

For the latest version of this software, see this link.

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. Linux MCSDK related queries should be posted to Linux forum with a tag Linux-C6x and part number (e.g., C6678) included in the subject.

BIOS-MCSDK 2.0.5: Maintenance update for C66x BIOS-MCSDK

Raj Sivarajan — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:03:00 GMT

BIOS MCSDK 2.0.5 is available for download; this is a maintenance update for the production R2.0.0 release. This update can be manually downloaded or automatically downloaded directly from CCS using Eclipse Update Manager; see the BIOS MCSDK User's Guide for details on setting up automatic software updates.

The major updates from the last maintenance release, BIOS MCSDK 2.0.4, are:

Optimized PLL and DDR configurations in IBL and Platform Library
Added support for MAD prelinker bypass mode
Updated components SYS/BIOS, EDMA3 LLD, PA LLD, QMSS LLD, PCIe LLD, Hyperlink LLD, and XDCTools
Added program_evm script to simplify updating EVM flash contents
Added IBL command-line tool to modify configuration
Added POST print of configuration registers
Bug fixes (see the Release Notes for full list)

The major updates in past maintenance releases from the production release are:

IPC transport optimizations for SRIO and QMSS
New kernels and platforms support in DSPLIB and IMGLIB
Updated IPC component
Bug fix for PA LLD for mismatch between the OSAL begin and end tags
Added Linux development host support (install and build in Linux)
Update to SYS/BIOS for C6678 interrupt fix
Added PCIe example for C6670 EVM
Added ability to do NDK loopback in out-of-box demonstration (HUA)
Updates to CSL, SRIO LLD, and HyperLink LLD
Updated foundational target software (SYS/BIOS, IPC, XDC)
Added multicore application deployment tool (MAD)
Updated Code Generation Tools to version 7.2.4

The BIOS Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) provides the core foundational building blocks that facilitate application software development on TI's high performance and multicore DSPs. This software release gives developers the ability to evaluate major software capabilities of KeyStone family devices TMS320C6678 and TMS320C6670 and quickly begin application development. Support is provided for the TMDXEVM6678L and TMDXEVM6670L evaluation boards and C66x simulators found in CCS 5.0.3 and CCS 5.1.0.

The foundational components include:

SYS/BIOS which is a light-weight real-time embedded operating system for TI devices
Chip support libraries, drivers, and basic platform utilities
Interprocessor communication for communication across cores and devices
Basic networking stack and protocols
Optimized application-specific and application non-specific algorithm libraries
Debug and instrumentation
Bootloader and boot utilities
Demonstrations and examples

See the following wiki pages for more information: