The TASKING DSP56xxx Software Development Toolset supports COFF (.CLD) compatibility and the GNU calling convention. This provides the capability to generate code for the Motorola assembler and linker with COFF compliant debug information. Support of the Motorola toolchain is fully integrated into Tasking EDE so you can easily select the entire TASKING toolchain or the TASKING and Motorola toolchain. 

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What's new v3.0
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What's New in v3.0

• Automatic stack overflow checking
• Improved COFF file assembler reading
• Enhanced breakpoint handling
• Probe Points
• Breakpoint sequencer
• New graphical data analysis features
• Predefined and custom "code outlines"
• HTML language and web browser support
• Memory paging support for DSP56690
• Support for PCI and parallel Command Converters

The DSP56xxx Software Development Toolset

EDE (Embedded Development Environment)
…supplies you with direct and easy access to all the DSP56xxx tools you need for your application development via a single user interface.

• Project set-up and management
• Powerful language sensitive editor
• Type-ahead editing
• Predefined and custom "code outlines"
• Easy configuration of DSP56xxx C/C++ compiler, assembler, linker/locator and debugger
• Automated make facility
• HTML language and web browser support

DSP56xxx C/C++/EC++ Compiler
…applies powerful DSP optimization techniques and algorithms to enable you to produce the most efficient code for your application.

• Fully ANSI-C and ISO C++ compliant DSP56xxx compiler
• Complete compatibility with Motorola GNU compiler
• Code size optimized an average of 40% better than GNU
• Static, reentrant and mixed memory models
• In-line assembly
• Cache handling pragma's and built-in functions
• Built-in support for overflow / saturation
• MAC instruction in computational expressions
• In-line expansion of predefined functions
• Branch optimizations
• Predefined functions for model options
• Storage specifiers for X, Y, L and P memory
• Compiler generated DO and REP loops
• Circular buffer data type for efficient filter loops
• Highly effective optimization techniques
  • Common subexpression elimination
  • Loop recognition
  • Variable usage analysis and register allocation
  • Fast parameter passing to avoid the stack
• Powerful assembler, linker and locator generates ROMable code for total flexibility
• ANSI C, runtime, fixed and floating point libraries
• Libraries available in COFF format

• Multiple viewing windows (source, register, trace, memory, stack, data, command)
• Bubble-Spy^TM technology for quick and easy viewing of variable or function values
• Set, clear, enable, disable breakpoints
• Code, data, stack, complex breakpoints
• Probe points
• Breakpoint sequencer
• Multiple DSP debugging
• Single stepping without stopping
• File system simulation
• Record and playback debug session
• On-chip debug (OCDS) support
• Program performance analysis
  • Cycle counting
  • Profiling
  • Code coverage
  • Programmable DSP graphical data analysis
• C, assembly level and stack tracing

Third Party Tool Support

Real Time Operating Systems that support the TASKING tools: RTXC from Quadros Systems Inc >>>

Availability and Packaging

The Motorola DSP56xxx software development tools are available for PC/Windows and Sun/Solaris. Each TASKING DSP56xxx product comes with full printed documentation as well as on-line documentation in three formats (Windows Help, HTML and PDF).