On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 10:09, Mike wrote: > (i'll be working with Blackfin) I've got the ezkit, looking at hooking one to a SHARC using TDM. Gotta populate the expansion connectors, first. > pretty damn expensive stuff. last year i did a project with TI DSP > and the software and hardware didn't come to as much as either of > these alone. so i'm wondering if there are any other emulators > (really JTAG programmers) that work with VDSP++... ADI is also coming out with a new faster version of PCI and USB emulators shortly. They were showing the PCI one at the last Embedded Systems show. I don't know of any 3rd parties making a JTAG emulator. Since MSA (the Blackfin core) is a co-development with Intel, Intel might produce silicon and then some competition for tools may start to turn up. I'm reminded of a statement from a Sun founder, "better to be a small fish in a big pond than a big fish in a small pond". An Intel MSA chip would certainly make the "pond" a lot bigger. |