TDA4VL-Q1: Learning TDA4 SoC chip

Tahir Rana

Part Number: TDA4VL-Q1

I am very new to this SoC world. So far I was doing VHDL /Verilog/SystemVerilog. Its now I need to learn TDA4 for a project. My work will be mainly to receive data and process it using DSP part of the chip and send it out. The issue is, I dont have any prior DSP, ARM programing experience.

If TI provides any such training? Or is there anyone who can guid where to start from? I am also ready to pay for the training.

All kinds of inputs are welcome.

over 2 years ago

0 Pratik Kedar over 2 years ago

TI__Mastermind 24041 points

Hi,

We currently don't have training material as such, however to get started on dsp programming you can refer to Compiler User Guide.

https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruig8h/spruig8h.pdf?ts=1681364576153&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ti.com%252Ftool%252Fdownload%252FC7000-CGT%252F3.0.0.STS

Regards,

Pratik

0 Tahir Rana over 2 years ago in reply to Pratik Kedar

Prodigy 40 points

Hello Pratik.

Can you please guide how this will help me learning TDA and SoCs?

0 Tahir Rana over 2 years ago in reply to Pratik Kedar

Prodigy 40 points

Hello Pratik.

Can you please guide how this will help me learning TDA and SoCs?

0 Pratik Kedar over 2 years ago in reply to Tahir Rana

TI__Mastermind 24041 points

Hi,

We hope you have gone through the above shared pdf link thoroughly.

Under Compiler User Guide, there are code snippets available that will illustrate how to program SoC and its components.

Adding one small example for your better understanding purpose.

Example I :

4.14 Streaming Engine and Streaming Address Generator <refer 4.14 from user guide>

This section talks about what are streaming engines and Streaming Address Generators and how they can be used for data transfer operations.

There are illustrative code snippets available on this as well, for example to open new a stream using SA

// OPEN THE STREAMS, SA0 AND SA1
__SA0_OPEN(params);
__SA1_OPEN(params);
// COPY DATA FROM *(src_addr+SA1) TO *(dst_addr+SA0)
for (I0 = 0; I0 < 8; I0++)
{
 // COMPILER MATCHES VECTOR LOAD AND STORE FOR FOUR WORD
DATA
 *__SA0ADV(uint8, dst_addr) = *__SA1ADV(uint8, src_addr);
}
// CLOSE THE STREAMS
__SA0_CLOSE();
__SA1_CLOSE();

We recommend to follow these code snippets along with technical concept elaboration going ahead to learn more about SoC programming.

Regards,

Pratik

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