Texas Instruments announced the availability of its Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) on the low-power OMAP-L138 and OMAP-L132 DSP + ARM9 processors, offering developers reduced development time and scalability to TI’s TMS320C6000 high-performance digital signal processors (DSPs).
Customers developing applications for industrial, communications, telecom and medical markets can now migrate to high-performance devices without moving to another software platform.
MCSDK provides highly optimised bundles of foundational, platform-specific drivers to enable development on TI’s devices. Providing well-defined application programming interfaces for ease of programming, it supports future portability to higher performance TI multicore platforms so that customers do not have to develop common layers from scratch.
The kit gives developers the ability to evaluate hardware and software capabilities of the device-specific development platforms and to rapidly develop multicore applications. In addition, it enables applications to use SYS/BIOS and/or Linux on one platform.
Typically the MCSDK individual cores can be assigned to operate Linux applications as a control plane, while other cores are simultaneously assigned high-performance signal processing operations. This heterogeneous configuration provides software developers the flexibility to implement full solutions on TI’s multicore processors.
In the case of the OMAP-L138, the internal ARM9 processor can be assigned with a high-level operating system, such as embedded Linux, performing complex I/O stack handling, while the TMS320C647x DSP runs TI RTOS (previously SYS/BIOS) real-time processing tasks.
The MCSDK contains libraries that are compatible with TI’s C647x DSPs and KeyStone-based DSPs including the C665x, C667x, 66AK2Hx and 66AK2Ex processors. With the MCSDK, developers are able to access and benefit from various optimised DSP libraries including the math library, digital signal processing library, image and video processing library, telecom libraries and speech and video codecs.
In addition, the OMAP-L138 processor is packed with a combination of application-tuned features and peripherals including Ethernet, USB, SATA, Video Port Interface (VPIF), uPP and more.
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