Rapid Development of Real-Time Applications Using MATLAB/Simulink on TI C6000-based DSP

This work discusses a hardware/software platform for educational purpose which integrates MATLAB/Simulink, Texas Instruments (TI) eXpressDSP Tools and C6000 digital signal processing (DSP) target let develop and validate digital signal processing designs from concept through code, in a typical professional vision design-simulation-implementation. This platform automates rapid prototyping on C6000 hardware targets because lets use Simulink to model digital signal processing algorithms from blocks in the Signal Processing Blockset, and then use Real-Time Workshop to generate C code targeted to the TI DSP board by mean Code Composer Studio (CCS IDE). The build process downloads the targeted machine code to the selected harware and runs the executable on the digital signal processor. After downloading the code to the board, our digital signal processing application runs automatically on our target. The library real time data exchange (RTDX) instrumentation that contains RTDX input and output blocks let transfer data to and from memory on any C6000-based target. The educational applications presented in this paper prove the feasibility of this methodology for this platform. Key–Words: Real-Time Signal Processing, Real-Time Workshop, MATLAB, Simulink