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TMS320C4x Floating-Point
DSP Design Workshop

This workshop focuses on designing with the latest floating-point (fourth) generation digital signal processors.

Who should attend

This workshop is tailored for hardware or software design engineers who plan on designing with the 'C4x floating-point DSPs. Experience with digital systems and basic knowledge of assembly language programming is assumed. Basic knowledge of the C programming language is helpful, although not required.

What you will learn

  • 'C4x architecture and instruction set
  • Use of PC-based development tools
  • Floating-point and parallel operations
  • Interrupts and traps
  • Efficient memory usage
  • Peripherals and input/output techniques
  • Hardware interface issues
  • System design issues

TMS320C4x Workshop Outline

  • Introduction to the 'C4x DSP
  • Software development
  • Simulator walk-throug
  • Memory addressing
  • Basic CPU operations
  • Floating-point and parallel instructions
  • Pipeline and cache
  • Reset, interrupts and traps
  • Special addressing modes
  • Memory interface
  • Boot loader
  • Communication ports
  • DMA coprocessor
  • C compiler
  • Parallel application development
  • Design support

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