Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: C5471 EVM and DSPLinux bundle
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 December 2001
Embedded Linux shrinks DSP applications
Texas Instruments and RidgeRun have released an end-to-end embedded Linux development suite for TI's new highly integrated, system-level DSPs
The combination of the RidgeRun DSPLinux operating system and board support package (BSP) with TI's power-efficient, programmable DSPs will reduce cost, power consumption and board space by 40% for designers of real-time embedded applications. The inclusive out-of-the-box solution allows developers of applications ranging from wireless data, smart pen pads, voice recognition, text-to-speech, access point controllers, network security, industrial control and emergency radio to take advantage of the flexibility and connectivity of DSPLinux.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 December 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The solution also provides an easy way to access real-time algorithms running on the code-compatible TI DSPs from the Linux kernel.
'Embedded Linux is rapidly becoming the operating system of choice for the majority of new embedded electronic systems, replacing proprietary 'home-grown' operating systems as a way to ensure true open-source flexibility', said Dennis Barrett, Texas Instruments' DSP product marketing manager.
'Likewise, more and more developers are migrating to the truly robust DSPLinux BSP'.
RidgeRun's extensive Embedded Linux development tools include command-line build tools that support TI's TMS320C54x DSPs as well as the ARM7, a Linux JTAG-based GDB debugger, and a Linux kernel with DSP/BIOS bridge support for C54x DSP targets.
Designers can also employ over 1000 existing operating system middleware software packages, communications stacks, and other applications available today for the ARM7.
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This level of development support and intellectual property, along with the immediate availability of the C5470 and C5471 DSPs, provides critical resources necessary to create new products for a broad array of applications that can exploit the advantages that system-level integration provides.
'OEMs developing network-connected applications have demanded a one-source hardware and software solution to reduce system size, power consumption and cost while meeting the ever-increasing demands of anytime-anywhere consumers and decreasing time-to-market windows', said RidgeRun CEO Rudy Prince.
'Combining the completeness of RidgeRun's DSPLinux BSP with TI's programmable system-level DSPs which are in production today, reduces debug time, accelerates time to market'.
The two DSPs combine the world's most popular programmable DSP with the ARM7 Thumb RISC processor along with support for one of the most requested embedded operating systems on the market today.
This combination delivers native DSP-enabled performance to low cost RISC-based systems eliminating the need for designers to move to a more expensive RISC architecture.
The heterogeneous dual-core architecture of TI's system-level DSPs allow optimised task partitioning for increased system performance using the right processor for the right task.
The C5470 and C5471 DSPs are available today in production quantities.
The C5471 EVM and DSPLinux bundle, as well as the C5470 EVM and separately purchased DSPLinux BSP are available now for ordering, with shipments beginning in January 2002.
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