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Started by Bernhard Holzmayer September 29, 2004
> -----Ursprgliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Laurent [SMTP:]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 28. September 2004 21:07
> An:
> Betreff: [adsp] Dealing with EZ-KIT LITE's VisualDSP++ code size limitation
>
> Dear list,
>
> I have recently purchased an ADSP-BF533 EZ-KIT LITE to do some Audio
> synthesis and Video processing.
> I know there is a limitation in code size, something like 20KB if i'm
> correct.
>
> Does this limitation apply only to the code section of each object before
> they get linked into an executable ( which i doubt as it wouldn't be too
> much a problem overall ! ), or does it apply to the union of all the code
> sections of all the objects of the executable ?
>
> If it is the last one, is there any easy solution to make several
> executables "communicate" together ? Or any other legal trick ?
> I hope there's a way to cope with this limitation as i cannot afford a full
> version of VisualDSP++.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Laurent

Dear Laurent.
1) With respect to those who did pay for the full version (includes me),
I hope that there is no way to overcome this limitation.

2) In the beginning of VisualDSP software there had been a GNU C based version,
though this was in pre-Blackfin times.
Nevertheless, this version seems be still around and alive,
maybe there is even a port to BF-533.
Check the free software scene (Sourceforge et al.)

3) There's a uClinux port, which makes this Linux OS running on Blackfin.
I don't know if this is of interest for you.
But it would mean, that you could use a gcc/PC-based
cross-compiler setup to create your code.

Bernhard