RidgeRun, Inc. today announced immediate availability of a Board Support Package (BSP) for the Texas Instruments TMS320DSC21 digital signal processor. The new product offering allows embedded system developers to build an embedded product quickly, start writing applications before hardware is available, access royalty-free Open Source code to jump start development and use the power of DSPs without… expertise in DSP algorithm development.

The Texas Instruments DSC21 combines on a single device the ultra-low power TMS320C5000 DSP to perform real-time media processing and an ARM7TDMI RISC processor for system control functions. Programmable hardware multimedia accelerators perform concurrent processing that boosts application-specific imaging and video performance.

RidgeRun's new BSP for the TMS320DSC21 includes . . .

• The Open Source Linux Kernel optimized for the TI TMS320DSC21 processor.

• Drivers for all the system-on-chip peripherals including on-screen display, UART, compact flash and USB.

• The powerful Appliance Simulator to help multimedia and wireless OEMS develop and implement products while access to hardware may be limited. Among a variety of benefits, the appliance simulator allows developers to run DSPLinux on a desktop PC within a simulated embedded device, create and debug applications before running on actual hardware and use the same cross-compile tools as needed for the actual target.

• The industry standard GNU software development tool suite is configured for cross-compilation to allow you to develop code for targets supported by DSPLinux. A compiler, assembler, debugger, linker, Standard C library and utility programs for software development are among the tools available in the RidgeRun DSC21 BSP.

The new BSP is available today through a flexible licensing program for the DSPLinux BSP development tools and the proprietary components of DSPLinux. The DSPLinux BSP license includes 30 days free installation and configuration support, special access to DSPLinux.net, and one year of free updates.

 
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