Upgraded DSP development includes latest chips

An Altium product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Feb 21, 2003

Version 3.5 of the Tasking embedded software development toolset for Motorola's DSP56xxx architecture is now available from Altium.

Version 3.5 of the Tasking embedded software development toolset for Motorola's DSP56xxx architecture is now available from Altium.

Developers for the wide range of DSP56xxx applications will benefit from a redesigned user interface and support for all the latest derivatives and evaluation boards.

"The optimising capabilities of the Tasking DSP56xxx compiler and the extensive debug functionality of the DSP56xxx CrossView Pro debugger enable the development of highly efficient, reliable and powerful applications for the DSP56xxx", says Jeroen Verheijen, Altium's Product Manager for the DSP56xxx toolset.

"The new version of the toolset increases the tools' ease of use and enables developers to take advantage of all the latest DSP56xxx derivatives and evaluation boards".

Extensively redesigned interfaces for both the embedded development environment (EDE) and the CrossView Pro debugger in v3.5 result in a more intuitive environment and increased ease of use for developers.

The re-arranged menu structures, the improved dialogs, and the new context-sensitive help features in the CrossView Pro debugger make it both easy to learn and use.

For example, the new dialogue design in the CrossView Pro debugger allows more flexible breakpoint configuration, and probe point support allows data to be retrieved from and injected into an application at run-time using I/O simulation.

With this version, developers can now take advantage of the latest DSP56xxx derivatives and evaluation boards including DSP56366, DSP56367, DSP5637x and DSP5637xEVM.

A full listing of supported derivatives and boards, is available on the Tasking website.

The Tasking DSP56xxx software development toolset v3.5 is a complete and integrated toolset consisting of the Tasking EDE, DSP56xxx C/C++/EC++ compiler, assembler, linker/locator and CrossView Pro simulator debugger.

Version 3.5 is available for PC/Windows and Sun/Solaris platforms and is priced from US$3290 for the complete C/C++/EC++ compiler and debugger toolset.

Also available is the CrossView Pro ADS/EVM debugger package which supports all the latest DSP56xxx evaluation boards.

The price for a PC/Windows single node-locked licence is US $1990.