Bus-powered System Trace Emulator Designed for Multicore DSPs

Blackhawk, a designer of digital signal processor (DSP) hardware and software development tools for Texas Instruments Inc.DSPs, have launched its bus-powered XDS560v2 System Trace Emulator for TI's TMS320C64x multicore DSPs. The emulator (BH560v2) is based on the system trace reference design (XDS560v2) from TI and is the next-generation of the high-performance XDS560-class technology first made available by Blackhawk with the USB560/LAN560 and XDS560 Trace.

The new emulator shares some features of other 560-class emulators from Blackhawk. Most notable is the bus-powered capability, which means the emulator needs no external power source when used as a USB device. The Blackhawk XDS560v2-BP can also be connected to a LAN via an integrated Ethernet port. In addition to traditional JTAG (IEEE 1149.1), the XDS560v2 adds support for IEEE 1149.7 (previously known as cJTAG) and system trace (STM), an interface on the TI heterogeneous multicore devices.

The Blackhawk XDS560v2 System Trace is also available in an Ethernet-powered model which uses an IEEE 802.11af compliant Power over Ethernet (PoE) switch or injector. This model provides the ability to connect through the network when the USB ports are not available and a stand-alone configuration is required.

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