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Introduction
The TMS320C6000 (‘C6000) platform of devices consists of the first off-the-
shelf digital signal processors (DSPs) to use advanced very long instruction
word (VLIW) to achieve high performance through increased instruction-level
parallelism. The VelociTI
advanced very long instruction word (VLIW) archi-
tecture uses multiple execution units operating in parallel to execute multiple
instructions during a single clock cycle. Parallelism is the key to extremely high
performance, taking these DSPs well beyond the performance capabilities of
traditional designs.
This chapter introduces the TMS320 family of DSPs and the ’C6000 platform
of this family, and it describes the features, memory, and peripherals of the
’C6000 devices.
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The TMS320 Family Overview
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1.2
Overview of the TMS320C6000 Platform of DSPs
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1.3
Features and Options of the TMS320C6000 Devices
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1.4
Overview of TMS320C6000 Memory
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1.5
Overview of TMS320C6000 Peripherals
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