C6412Compact
TMS320C6412 DSP Board with Spartan-3 FPGA and USB 2.0, FireWire, Ethernet Interfaces

The micro-line C6412Compact offers a highly flexible DSP/FPGA single board solution for developers requiring and integrated DSP and FPGA, together with on-board 10/100Base-T Ethernet, USB 2.0, and IEEE 1394a FireWire connectivity. It can be used as a stand-alone system, or as a mezzanine daughtercard embedded within a larger system or board design. The design incorporates a high performance TMS320C6412 Integer DSP Processor, a high density Spartan-3 FPGA, 10/100Base-T Ethernet interface, USB 2.0 slave interface, and two IEEE 1394a FireWire controllers with independent interfaces. Up to 128MBytes of SDRAM and 8MBytes of Boot Program FLASH are also included.

In situations where additional functionality is required, developers can extend the capabilities of the C6412Compact using optionally available data acquisition and I/O modules, or with their own application-specific hardware. External hardware is easily interfaced with the TMS320C6412 processor or connected directly to the Spartan-3 FPGA.

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Key Features

• 720MHz TMS320C6412 integer DSP Processor
  - maximum performance of 5760 MIPS
• 1MGate or 4MGate Complexity Spartan-3 FPGA
  - requires optional VHDL FPGA Development Package
  
• USB 2.0 slave interface
  - requires optional software for PC connectivity
• Two IEEE 1394a FireWire interface controllers with independent interfaces
  - requires optional API, video framecapture
• 10/100Base-T Ethernet interface
  - requires optional TCP/IP interface software
• 64 or 128MBytes of 100 MHz SDRAM
• 8 MByte Boot Program Flash EPROM
  - stores separate user-application boot code for on-board DSP and FPGA
  - can be used by DSP for non-volatile data file storage and access
  - data files can be accessed by PC when connected via board's serial RS-232 port and using provided PC side Flash Filesystem utility software
• Onboard watchdog and temperature sensor
• External access to TMS320C6412 DSP I/O interfaces
• Optional Video framecapture from IEEE 1394a FireWire cameras
• Board dimensions 120 x 72 mm
• OEM volume pricing
• ISO9001:2000 accredited production

The micro-line power supply functions as a base for a micro-line stack of DSP, data acquisition and I/O boards. It delivers power to the micro-line stack and provides additional services such as RS-232 communications connector, a reset button and a power-on indicator. OEM developers may wish to mount the micro-line stack on their own hardware.

Networking & Connectivity

Ethernet

Texas Instruments Network Development Kit TCP/IP software can be used with the C6412Compact, in conjunction with the corresponding C6412Compact NDK Support Package (NSP). Texas Instruments' NDK software is now available as a free product download from the TI website; it is free for development and production. However, the optionally available C6412Compact NSP must be purchased.

TI's NDK software includes binaries for the TCP/IP stack, together with source and binary libraries for network applications, jumbo packet buffer manager, and device drivers:

• Core TCP/IP protocol stack: Dual-mode IPv6/IPv4 stack in binary only including VLAN packet priority marking, TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP, IP, and ARP
• Network applications: HTTP, TELNET, TFTP, DNS, DHCP (IPv4 only) in both source and binary form
• Application Programming interfaces: BSD Sockets, including support for raw Ethernet
• Device drivers: Pre-tested device drivers in source and binary form for the on-chip EMACs of supported DSPs.
  

Required to use NDK:

• DSP/BIOS and Code Composer Studio IDE (CCStudio) v3.3 or above

USB

Optional software allows the USB2.0 slave interface to be utilized by the on-board TMS320C6412 DSP processor, using either bulk-mode or CDC protocol based transport for communication with a PC. CDC protocol based communication presents PC side application software with a generic COM port software interface to the C6412Compact.

IEEE 1394a FireWire, Imaging and Framecapture

The two on-board IEEE 1394a FireWire controllers facilitate C6412Compact integration with other embedded DSP resources, cameras, sensors, and host computers. The two FireWire controllers can be utilized indepdently and concurrently, using optionally provided software for general urpose I/O, video Framecapture, and video output. Imaging and framecapture configurations are easily realized when using the optional IIDC IEEE 1394a FireWire video framecapture and video output development software.

Development Tools & Software

Development tools & software provide support for code generation, source level debugging, pre-emptive multi-tasking, as well as downloading and managing FLASH ROM resident application software.