Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TMS320DM64x DMDK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 September 2003
Kit gets developers
started on video applications
A new and complete DSP design kit aims to speed the development of digital media applications
The TMS320DM64x digital media development kit (DMDK) comes with a 600MHz TMS320DM642 evaluation board (EVM), high-speed XDS560 PCI-based emulator, and a digital-media version of the powerful Code Composer Studio (CCStudio) integrated development environment (IDE) along with a full suite of application software and utilities.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 September 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The kit helps developers fully leverage the DM642 DSP, an extremely versatile DSP-based digital media processor for the video and imaging market.
First, the high level of peripheral integration has three configurable 20bit video I/O ports, a built-in Ethernet media-access controller and a 32bit PCI master/slave interface.
Secondly, building on the achievement of TI's TMS320C64xTM generation of DSPs, the processor addresses video designers' need to get to market fast with the latest suite of audio and video algorithms.
The DM642 at 600MHz is capable of processing up to four simultaneous MPEG2 video decodes, D1 (720 x 480) resolution, at 30 frames per second.
The DM642 is also capable of full Main-Profile-at-Main-Level MPEG-2 video encoding in real time.
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'Customers are demanding high performance, cost effective digital media processors for video encoding and decoding, as well as a programmable platform that provides the flexibility required for the demanding processing tasks in the digital media market', said Thomas Brooks, TMS320DM64x Product Marketing Manager, TI.
'TI's DM64x digital media suite of processors integrates powerful video, audio and communications peripherals, as well as the optimal combination of performance and ready-to-use application software'.
The DMDK brings together the industry's most powerful and complete set of media-optimised DSP tools and includes everything a designer needs to get DM642-based designs prototyped and debugged without delay.
The DM642 EVM, featuring the 600MHz DM642 DSP-based digital media processor, is a PCI card with 32Mbyte of external SDRAM, 4Mbyte of Flash memory, composite video input/output, S-Video input/output, a VGA output port and an Ethernet port to enable streaming media.
The kit also includes: a standard camera running at 30 frame/s (customers can order pal or NTSC format); the XDS560 PCI-based emulator with bidirectional data streaming at video speeds up to 2Mbyte/s and code download speeds of 512Kbyte/s; the CCStudio IDE, including the royalty-free DSP/BIOS real-time kernel and all the drivers needed for the video interfaces on the EVM; and ready-to-use application software that allows developers to literally drop proven functions into their applications.
The kit includes a wide range of C source code, algorithm libraries and demo video executables including Reference Framework five (RF5).
Example programs include modules that implement video capture/display pass-through using various codecs such as H.263, MPEG2 video and Motion JPEG.
Another example program allows for on-screen display (OSD) overlays.
The DMDK lists for $6495 and is available from TI distributors.
Purchasers of the kit also have access to proven eXpressDSP-compliant algorithms for video and imaging, video and audio codecs, networking stacks and middleware modules developed by leading third parties in the TI developer network.
For those users who already own a copy of CCStudio, an emulator and their own camera and software, the DM642 EVM board is available as a target platform for $1995.
DM642 600MHz silicon is available today for video and developers to get started on their designs.
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