“Our multicore DSPs offer performance and innovation like no other solution out there for industrial automation developers,” said Brian Glinsman, general manager of TI’s communications infrastructure and multicore business. “With four scalable C66x devices, and many more to come down the road, we offer customers a broad range of multicore solutions to choose from with superior levels of performance, flexibility, optimized software and ecosystem solutions, to accelerate their designs to market.”
Meeting the needs of industrial automation developers
With its C66x multicore DSP portfolio, TI offers improved compute performance, large on-chip memory and multiple high speed interfaces that enable industrial automation developers to easily implement advanced features and achieve higher system integration. With pin and software compatible platforms across TI’s TMS320C6671, TMS320C6672, TMS320C6674 and TMS320C6678 DSPs, customers can design integrated, power and cost-efficient products across the range of their product portfolios.
TI’s multicore DSPs are an ideal solution for high-end industrial automation products such as:
• Smart cameras
• Vision controllers
• Optical inspection systems
• Currency processing equipment
• Specialized surveillance systems
• Industrial printers and scanners
In addition, the C66x DSP core’s fixed- and floating-point capabilities are highly suited for audio infrastructure products as well as vibration and acoustic analyzers. The real-time nature of TI’s C66x multicore DSPs are also an excellent fit for high precision motion control and high channel count real-time process control systems like programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and programmable automation controller (PACs).
Easing development with multicore software and tools
TI is delivering significant updates to its multicore software kit and toolset, including Linux software, optimized libraries, support for the OpenMP programming model and a free multicore software development kit (MCSDK). The MCSDK includes demo software, showing a multicore image processing example and a fast Fourier transform (FFT) based signal processing example. For the industrial automation market, TI also provides free software libraries, IMGLIB and VLIB, for image processing-oriented applications, and DSPLIB and MATHLIB for real-time signal processing support. The C66x processors are also software compatible with TI’s existing TMS320C6000™ DSPs, enabling vendors to reuse their existing software and preserve their investment in TI embedded processors.
Robust third-party ecosystem
TI’s third-party network features a worldwide community of respected and well-established companies offering products and services that support C66x DSPs including multiple DSP hardware vendors and multicore software development tool vendors.