• Electrical Engineering Tools:
  • My DSP hints contain information on using DSP compiler tools under WINE (target systems are DSK6211 and DSK6711, and also the DSP56303).

  • People experimenting with the C6x DSKs may be interested in:
    • The beagle board contains an OMAP3530 processor with superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 and TMS320C64x+ DSP components (with embedded linux port).
    • Mity DSP have announced the MityDSP-Pro which integrates the TI C6455 DSP with a Xilinx XC3S2000 Spartan 3 FPGA, flash memory, SDRAM, and Serial Rapid I/O links (also available with lower-cost TMS320C6454 processor and/or with larger FPGAs);
    • DSP Global produced some prototype boards around 2000 --- the web site http://www.dspglobal.com/plite.htm is no longer on-line but boards might still be available. See Texas Instruments Application Report SPRA711 (http://www-s.ti.com/sc/psheets/spra711/spra711.pdf) for information on the DSK daughterboard standard.

  • For XILINX development on *BSD and linux, see http://splish.ee.byu.edu/tutorials/linux-alliance/linux-alliance.html which discusses the use of the tools under WINE (old page: http://splish.ee.byu.edu/tutorials/linux-m2/linux-m2.html).

  • BERKELEY DESIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC. is a technical services company that focuses on DSP. They sell all sorts of analytical reports, and also provide free material such as an archive of the news group comp.dsp and on-line documentation such as BDTI articles (including some reprints from IEEE Micro and IEEE Spectrum) and BDTI library information.

  • A TMS320C3x emulator is available from the Embedded Signal Processing Lab of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin (project titled WETICS).

  • A private MP3 decoder project of interest to experimenters is available at http://www.pjrc.com/tech/mp3.

  • DSP docs from Texas Instruments who also provide the Embedded Edge(tm) Magazine.

• Matrix Mathematics Tools:
  • SciLAB is a comprehensive matrix mathematics package developed by France's INRIA, available from the SciLAB Web Site.

  • The Scicos real-time system design tools allow SciLab based design of models and controllers to be implemented in real-time within an RTAI framework - see also Modeling and Simulation in Scilab/Scicos, Stephen L. Campbell, Jean-Philippe Chancelier, and Ramine Nikoukhah (ISBN 0-387-27802-8).

  • Octave is another very powerful matrix mathematics package developed by John W. Eaton, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, and which is available from the OCTAVE Web Site.

  • GNU have a GNU Scientific Library project.

  • RLaB is a matrix maths tool for signal processing or other typical "EE" work, created by Ian Searle from Boeing --- it is available from the RLaB Web Site where source code and contributed material is available. The local site http://mirriwinni.it.jcu.edu.au/~ftp/rlab also provides RLaB source/binary distributions. You can also obtain the RLaB Primer that Ian Searle and I wrote at this site (pdf, 300dpi ps, 600dpi ps). RLaB is no longer under active development but ...

  • New! RLaB lives on, in the form of RLaB Plus, being developed by Marijan Kostrun.

  • FFTW = fast platform-independent portable (!) FFT from a team at MIT. It is available at www.fftw.org.

  • A number of signal processing libraries exist with optimisations for x86 architectures: Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (replaces the signal processing library); http://www.fftw.org (Intel and AMD). See also Threading Building Blocks put into the public domain by Intel.

  • Python is an object oriented mathematics package for which some signal processing libraries have been developed.

• Miscellaneous:

  • GSM 06.10 lossy speech compression - read How to squeeze one second of human speech into 50 33-byte frames from Jutta Degener.

  • A collection of historical public domain DSP development tools is available:
    • See URL http://mirriwinni.it.jcu.edu.au/~ftp/dsp for cross assembler tools and signal processing software;
    • Some assembler tools are also available as options in microprocessor cross assemblers kept in http://mirriwinni.it.jcu.edu.au/~ftp/uP (the Arnold cross assembler suite handles a number of DSP devices).

  • Directory matlab contains the latex source code for the matlab primer, a recent matcom-to-C++ announcement, and some old matlab 3.5 audio IO C mex files that I wrote in a previous life (a copy of the original communications toolbox which used these routines is available but newer versions should be retrieved from The Mathswork's WWW site).

  • R.I.P. - the original Mathtools folks did some interesting early work on a matlab-to-C compiler. They sold their technology to Mathworks who now operate URL http://www.mathtools.net

Jul 2 2009