Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2006-) | Subject: TMDSSDK6446-L
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 June 2006
Kit speeds digital
video software development
Continuing to streamline the creation of innovative digital video systems, Texas Instruments has announced a new digital video software development kit based on DaVinci technology
The new software development kit incorporates exceptional software integration and system visibility technology to integrate and tune complex systems quickly and efficiently. System designers will use the software development kit to have even greater access to TI's DaVinci technology, the industry's most powerful combination of video hardware and software.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 June 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new kit includes the eXpressDSP Configuration Kit, TMS320DM644x SoC analyser based on eXpressDSP Data Visualisation Technology and MontaVista's Linux to help reduce the application development cycle from months to weeks.
Developers will use the kit to create and tune optimised IP-set top boxes, video phones, video security systems and other advanced digital video applications.
'To create our smart surveillance camera reference design, we took advantage of TI's new software development kit and DaVinci technology to achieve optimum system performance and simultaneously shaved more than three months off of our expected development time', said Upendra Patel, Chief Technology Officer, eInfochips.
'The complete package consisting of multimedia codecs, MontaVista Linux and framework components with DaVinci technology enables us to deliver high performance and feature-rich solutions addressing the needs of target market segments'.
The eXpressDSP Configuration Kit, included in the new software development kit, allows system integrators to integrate discrete software modules and combine them into a single executable output for the system, avoiding months of tedious manual integration.
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By making it possible to easily create custom bundles of codecs for specific applications, the configuration kit makes it simple to reuse code and gives developers time to focus their engineering efforts on adding features and value to their products.
The configuration kit integrates TI's video, imaging, speech and audio codecs, custom codecs that comply with TI's eXpressDSP Digital Media (xDM) algorithm standard, TI's codec engine framework, DSP/BIOS real-time kernel and TI's DSP/BIOS Link inter-processor communication technology.
The unparalleled DM644x SoC analyser in the software development kit is the first single tool to provide complete system visibility, enabling developers to identify bottlenecks that were previously impossible to identify.
The minimally invasive tool aids in analysing and identifying problems by capturing and graphically displaying system interaction, load distribution, bottlenecks in data throughput and other types of behaviour.
As the tasks run on both the DSP and ARM cores of the TMS320DM644x processors the analyser captures and displays the data on a single timeline providing a complete system view of the application, eliminating the tedious process of manually collecting and comparing data on each core before optimisation begins.
Finally, the software development kit also helps developers reduce system test time with a robust, digital-video optimised Linux OS offering for the DaVinci technology-based DM644x processors.
The platform includes a proven, system-tested Linux board support package from MontaVista that has been optimised for video applications.
Developers using the platform will license and receive support for the MontaVista kernel and DevRocket integrated development environment directly from TI, which will give them access to the industry's vast store of Linux-based resources.
'The new software development kit demonstrates how TI's DaVinci technology continues to simplify digital video and enable innovation', said Greg Mar, DSP SoC Platform Manager, TI.
'Developers can leverage DaVinci technology - the right combination of processors, software, support and development tools to quickly build highly differentiated digital video systems'.
The digital video software development kit based on DaVinci technology will be available from TI in 3Q 2006.
The TMDSSDK6446-L platform, with introductory pricing at $6995, includes the tools and features discussed in this release and addresses the needs of developers who are already invested in TI development tools.
For those undertaking new DaVinci technology designs, the TMDSSDK6446-3L, with introductory pricing at $10,995, also includes an emulator and the Code Composer Studio integrated development environment, version 3.2, in addition to the tools and features discussed in the release.
The software development kit requires a target platform for the DM644x processors.
Options for the target platform include the digital video evaluation module (DVEVM) or platforms from TI third parties.
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