TI goes the Open Source way!

Posted by Praveen Raghavan on Nov 19 2007 under TMS320C54x   

Hello all,

Most of you probably know about Google's Summer of Code project. One of the great things that came out of that project is TI deciding to give out their compiler for free.

This is an important first step to getting open source codecs running on the DSP of the OSD, as well as for other projects which make use of TI's DM320 or other products containing a c54x DSP. Unfortunately this is not the complete CCS environment, but a standalone compiler. It contains the compiler, optimizer, assembler and a linker. However you get NO debugger with the tool set.

You can find the compiler toolset here.

Finally a large company like TI is also moving towards the right direction of freeing some of its software. Compilers are known to be a pain in you know where! And all companies and academia should join hands towards improving them further instead of making custom compilers from scratch or using some proprietary compiler. You know which compiler I am hinting towards :)

Regards,

Praveen

 

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Praveen is a PhD researcher at IMEC vzw in Belgium. He is also a PhD candidate at KULeuven in Electrical Engineering, Belgium. He works in the area of digital signal processor design for low power Software Defined Radio. He received his master in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, USA and before which he received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from REC, Trichy, India. Praveen's interests include processor design, compilers for DSP, low power, system design. | Personal website

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Let us know your feedback on the C54x availability. We have other Open Source initiatives as well including gStreamer ports on Davinci, among others. Look for upcoming announcements !

- cheers
Prabindh

Hi ,I am a student from china

Hi, i am pandu form india.I have compleated my training in DSP.
Please tell me some code optimization techniques.

Dear Pandu,
Do let me know what you would like to know. You can directly email me at:
praveen at notpraveen dot com

DSP designment on Linux was really a delimma, luckily it seems it's on the right way to open source now. However it leaves a lot to do, or i still have to dual-boot or have two PCs on desk. Run CCS on Windows and others on Linux.

Any idea for TM320 C6711 on Linux?

Dear Pandu,
I am working on TI's C6000 platform, about Video Steaming & Compression, would you please send me some meterial if you have, thank you very much!

Dear Pandu,
I am working on TI's C6000 platform, about Video Steaming & Compression, would you please send me some meterial if you have, thank you very much! Raymond at seeddsp dot com. Thank you again!