Educational Capabilities of MathWorks Products for Texas Instruments DSP

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Educational Capabilities of MathWorks Products
for Texas Instruments DSP

• Anne Mascarin
• DSP Marketing
• The MathWorks

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The MathWorks

• Headquarters in Natick, near Boston
• Founded in 1984 and privately held
• Over 1000 employees
• Direct offices in UK, France, Germany,
  Switzerland, Spain, and Benelux
• Distributors in 21 countries

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The MathWorks

• Accelerating engineering design and discovery
• MATLAB for algorithm development and analysis
• Simulink for system-level design

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The MathWorks Product Family MATLAB

• Toolboxes for Modeling, Analysis, and
  Computation Specific functionality for data
  analysis, modeling, optimization, math, and
  other capabilities
• Toolboxes for Data Input/Output
• MATLAB extensions for I/O of live and archived
  data with general-purpose and
  application-specific sources
• MATLAB Deployment Tools
• Deploy algorithms and applications to reports,
  Web servers, and standalone applications

Toolboxes
External tools Instruments Databases and files
Desktop Applications Automated Reports
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The MathWorks Product Family Simulink

• Blocksets
• Block libraries for fixed-point,
  visualization, DSP, communications, and more
• Stateflow
• Model and simulate reactive systems, state
  machines, and logic constructs
• Automatic Code Generation
• For rapid prototyping, hardware-in-the-loop, and
  production embedded software
• Real-Time Systems
• Target systems for rapid prototyping, HIL, and
  deployment

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The MathWorks Product Family

• Integrated for
• technical computing, data analysis and
  visualization
• system modeling and simulation
• implementation and verification of real-time
  embedded software

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MathWorks and TI working together

• 1989 MathWorks/TI development alliance begins
• 2001 Developers Kit for TI DSP released 2001
• August 2002 Developers Kit split into two
  products
• MATLAB Link for Code Composer Studio Development
  Tools
• Embedded Target for C6000 DSP Platform

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Diverse Areas of DSP study

• Aerospace Engineering
• radar, sonar
• Biomedical Engineering (biotech)
• Communications
• Earth and Ocean Sciences
• Electronics

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Developer Kit for TI DSP is now TWO products
Data transfer/program control C5000/C6000/C28xx
DSPs
Auto code generation for TI C6000 DSPs
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MATLAB Link for Code Composer Studio Development
Tools

• Execute CCS commands
• from MATLAB for
• debugging, analysis, and
• automation
• Upload data from DSP memory
• Download program data, parameters, and
• test vectors
• Exchange real-time data
• between MATLAB and a running DSP
• via RTDX without halting the DSP program

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Using the MATLAB Link for Code Composer Studio
Development Tools
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Demo MATLAB Link for Code Composer Studio
Development Tools

• Create filter in MATLAB
• Plot idealized filter in MATLAB
• Transfer filter and data into CCS
• Filter data, transfer back to MATLAB
• Plot data in MATLAB, compare

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How does MATLAB Link for Code Composer Studio
Development Tools help students?

• Visualize signals and data
• Design algorithms for individual components
• Learn processor concepts/commands
• Grasp implications of
• real-time processing

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Visualizing signals and data

• Signals from
• Signal Processing Toolbox
• Real-time DSP
• Data from
• CCS Simulator
• Real-Time DSP
• Other sources, through
• MATLAB workspace

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Designing algorithms for components

• Design
• Filters
• Transforms
• Windows
• Converters
• PLLs, etc.
• Explore
• design alternatives
• Extensive support
• Simulate

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Processor concepts/commands

• Students become familiar with memory,
  read/write,
• Example commands
• MATLAB/CCS
• regwrite - Write a value to a specified register
  on the target processor
• write - Write data to memory on the target
  processor
• get - Return the property values for a link to
  CCS
• MATLAB/RTDX
• enable - Enable the RTDX interface, a specified
  channel, or all RTDX channels
• readmat - Read a matrix of data from specified
  RTDX channels

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Implications of real-time

• Read/write order
• Interrupts
• Cycle times
• JTAG/RTDX

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Embedded Target for C6000 DSP Platform

• Generates board-specific
• C code
• C6711 DSK
• C6701 EVM boards
• Creates CCS projects
• from C code
• compiles
• links
• Runs executable on target board

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Using the Embedded Target for C6000 DSP Platform

• Design and simulate model from
• DSPBS
• Comm
• Simulink
• Stateflow
• Connect board specific blocks
• A/D, D/A, LED, DIP Switches, JTAG RTDX
• Automated code compile, link, load,
• and execute-on-target support
• Supports C67x, C62x, C64x
• families of DSPs
• Supports DSP Bios

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Demo Embedded Target for C6000 DSP

• Create model in Simulink
• Automatically generate C code
• Automatically link, compile, build in CCS
• Automatically load onto C6711 DSK

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How does Embedded Target help students?

• System design and hierarchy
• how subparts relate to whole
• Explore design tradeoffs
• Understand C code structure
• readable C code in MathWorks environment
• components of C code in CCS
• Grasp real-time algorithm processing
• how parameters affect whole system

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System Design and Hierarchy
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Explore design tradeoffs

• Extensive support for
• DSP algorithms in
• DSP Blockset and
• Communications Blockset
• Easy to drag, drop,
• and simulate

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Understand C code structure
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Grasp real-time algorithm processing
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Pricing and resources

• Educational Pricing
• MATLAB Link for Code Composer Studio Development
  Tools 200 (PC individual)
• Requires MATLAB, Signal Processing Toolbox
• Embedded Target for C6000 DSP Platform
• 200 (PC individual)
• Requires MATLAB, Simulink, Signal Processing
  Toolbox, DSP Blockset, MATLAB Link for CCS
• Available at www.mathworks.com