Course Highlights:

Course Descriptions:
DSP technology is nowadays commonplace in such devices as mobile phones, multimedia computers, video recorders, CD players, hard disc drive controllers and modems, and will soon replace analog circuitry in TV sets and telephones. An important application of DSP is in signal compression and decompression. Signal compression is used in digital cellular phones to allow a greater number of calls to be handled simultaneously within each local "cell". DSP signal compression technology allows people not only to talk to one another but also to see one another on their computer screens, using small video cameras mounted on the computer monitors, with only a conventional telephone line linking them together. In audio CD systems, DSP technology is used to perform complex error detection and correction on the raw data as it is read from the CD.

Code Composer Studio™ (CCS or CCStudio) is the integrated development environment for TI's DSPs, microcontrollers and application processors. CCStudio includes a suite of tools used to develop and debug embedded applications. It includes compilers for each of TI's device families, source code editor, project build environment, debugger, profiler, simulators and many other features. CCStudio provides a single user interface taking users through each step of the application development flow. Familiar tools and interfaces allow users to get started faster than ever before and add functionality to their application thanks to sophisticated productivity tools.

Texas Instrument’s Code Composer StudioTM (CCS) is a user-friendly, Windows-based debugger for developing and debugging software for the TMS320C5416.

It allows users to write and debug code in C or in TI assembly language.

Key Features:

• User-friendly Windows environment
• Ability to use code written in C and assembly
• Memory displays and on-the-fly editing capability
• Disassembly window for debugging
• Source level debugging that allows stepping through and setting breakpoints in original source code
• CPU register visibility and modification
• Real-time debugging with watch windows and continuous refresh
• Various single step/ step over/ step-into command icons
• Ability to display data in graph formats
• General Extension Language (GEL) capability that allows the user to create functions that extends the usefulness of CCS

In view of cost effectiveness, power efficiency computational efficiency of the fixed point DSP processors, this course provides complete understanding of architectural features and programming concepts of TMS320C5416 DSP processor. TMS320C5416 processor being a fixed point processor, this course covers the fixed point data representation, fixed point arithmetic and fixed point C programming skills.

The Digital Signal Processing algorithms used in wide range of applications have molded the Digital Signal Processor architecture thus bringing out a new class of high speed processors that are both power efficient and cost effective. TMS320 is a blanket name for a series of Digital Signal Processors from Texas Instruments. TI’s TMS320C54x Processor is one of the powerful DSP processors based on which many technological products were built and entered in the consumer electronics market. Since this processor has introduced many architectural features that revolutionized the DSP industry, it is also considered as one of the best case studies to understand complex DSP architectural features.

The key components of this course are as follows:

• Introduction to Code Composer Studio (CCS 3.1)
• Fixed Point DSP Programming
• TMS320C5416 DSP Architecture and Programming.
• Simulation of DSP systems on TMS320C5416 with CCS.

Objectives of the course:

This course provides introduction to TI’s development tool, Code Composer Studio(CCS).Upon the completion of the course, the participants will also gain a comprehensive understanding of fixed point data representation and arithmetic concepts, TMS320C5416 DSP’s architectural features, DSP programming using fixed point C and ASM and also it imparts the ability to design and simulate DSP based systems with TI’s TMS320C5416 as the target processor and using CCS 3.1.

Who Should Attend:

DSP engineers having knowledge about the DSP concepts and would like to

• get introduced with DSP Processors,
• know about the architectural features of general DSP Processors,
• know the programming practices of TI’s DSP processors,
• use the TI’s  software development tool CCS,
• understand the Fixed Point data concepts and to program 16-bit Fixed Point processors