MATLAB Link for Code Composer Studio Development Tools

Tutorial 2-2--Using Links for RTDX

The MATLAB Link for Code Composer Studio and the links for CCS IDE and RTDX speed and enhance your ability to develop and deploy digital signal processing systems on Texas Instruments digital signal processors. By using MATLAB and the MATLAB Link for Code Composer Studio, your MathWorks tools, CCS IDE and RTDX work together to help you test and analyze your processing algorithms in your MATLAB workspace.

In contrast to CCS IDE, using links for RTDX lets you interact with your process in real time while it's running on the target. Across the link, you can:

• Send and retrieve data from memory on the processor
• Change the operating characteristics of the program
• Make changes to algorithms as needed without stopping the program or setting breakpoints in the code

Enabling real-time interaction lets you more easily see your process or algorithm in action, the results as they develop, and the way the process runs.

This tutorial assumes you have Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio and at least one DSP development board. You can use the CCS IDE simulator to run this tutorial. Within the tutorial we use the TMS320C6701 EVM as the target board, with the C6701 DSP on the C6701 EVM as the target processor.

After you complete the tutorial, either in the demonstration form or by entering the functions along with this text, you are ready to begin using RTDX to work with your applications and hardware.

Closing the Links or Cleaning Up CCS IDE

Introducing the Tutorial for Using RTDX