Texas Instruments TMS320DM6467 DVEVM, Getting Started Manual, Page: 10 / 72

Welcome!
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1.1 Welcome!
Your new DVEVM (Digital Video Evaluation
Module) kit will allow you to evaluate TI’s new
DaVinci
TM
Technology and the DM646x
architecture.
This technology brings together system-solution
components tailored for efficient and compelling
digital video and audio.
1.2 What’s in this Kit?
A DVEVM (DaVinci Evaluation Module) is a physical kit that includes the
DVSDK software bundle, a demonstration version of MontaVista Linux
Pro, the EVM board, and other hardware items. The
DVSDK (DaVinci
Software Development Kit) software bundle contained in a DVEVM
includes such products as DSP/BIOS, Codec Engine, Link, DVTB, and
demo applications. If you upgrade to the fully licensed version of
MontaVista Linux Pro, the kit that contains the full set of MV Pro disks and
a MV license is called a
DVSPB (DaVinci Software Product Bundle).
Your DVEVM kit contains the following hardware items. Section 2.1,
Setting Up the Hardware tells how to connect these components.
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EVM Board . This board contains a DaVinci TMS320DM6467 dual-
core device with an ARM9 and C64+ DSP for development of
applications that use both a general-purpose processor and an
accelerated DSP processor.
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Hard Disk Drive . The hard drive provided with the EVM is a 2.5"
Spinpoint drive with 40 GB of storage. The drive speed in 5400 RPM
and it has an 8MB cache. The drive is an Ultra ATA 66/100/133 IDE.
Software has been preloaded on this EVM board’s hard disk drive.
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IR Remote Control . This universal remote control is included to
provide a user interface to the demo applications.
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Cables. Cables used to connect the EVM board to peripheral
devices and to a host Linux workstation used for development are
provided in the kit.