Date: 29/05/2012

DSP software and SDK from TI for biometric real time analytics applications

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has introduced the TMS320C6748 DSP development kit for real-time analytics applications such as fingerprint recognition and face detection. This kit enables systems to sense and analyze biometric information for enhanced access control. The C6748 DSP development kit is suitable for other digital signal processing applications, such as audio and communications. The C6748 DSP development kit comes pre-loaded with TI's C6748 SYS/BIOS Software Development Kit (SDK).

TI's C6748 SYS/BIOS SDK includes:

a. The latest SYS/BIOS real-time kernel
b. The C6748 StarterWare software package, which provides lightweight, operating-system independent software libraries and utilities
c. Code generation tools
d. DSP core performance benchmarks that show the real-time processing power of TI's C674x DSPs.

The C6748 SYS/BIOS SDK enables developers to run demos in less than 10 minutes and begin creating DSP applications in less than one hour. The C6748 DSP development kit includes Code Composer Studio integrated development environment (IDE) v5.1.

TI's C6748 DSP development kit reduces design work with freely downloadable and duplicable board schematics and design files. With a variety of standard interfaces for connectivity and storage, developers can bring audio, video and other signals onto the board. The expansion headers allow developers to add display and user interface technology, such as the camera board from Leopard Imaging and LCD screens.

TI's C6748 DSP development kit is software and pin-to-pin compatible across TI's C6748, C6746 and C6742 DSPs and software compatible with other TMS320C6000 DSPs. The developers can scale to the software and pin-for-pin compatible OMAP-L138 and OMAP-L132 DSP + ARM9 processors to add high-level operating systems such as Linux as well as control and networking functionality for applications such as industrial control, medical diagnostics, and communications.

Pricing:

1. C6748 DSP development kit is currently available at a cost of $195
2. An OMAP-L138 DSP + ARM9 development kit is available at a price of $195
3. Code Composer Studio IDE v5.1 is pre-loaded on both kits or can be licensed at $495
4. The C6748 SYS/BIOS SDK is pre-loaded with the C6748 StarterWare software package. The floating- and fixed-point C674x DSP generation is available at a price of $5 each in quantities of 10,000 units
5. The OMAP-L138/C6748 evaluation module (EVM) is available at a price of $1,050