TI is continuing to make our devices more and more open.  In addition to the low-cost C64x+ DSP tools[2], open source DSP Link[3], and open source Codec Engine[4] plus configuration tool[5], the DM6446 VICP is now usable by everyone via the VICP Signal Processing Library[1].

The VICP is a collection of loosely coupled accelerators attached to the C64x+ DSP within the DM6446.  The VICP signal processing library provides a simple way of programming these accelerators to provide additional DSP performance within your system.

I hope this is good news to the Neuros OSD2 community and will encourage further software development.  I'll be looking for responses to this e-mail for questions and encourage further suggestions and comments on TI's community forums[6].

Thanks for such a great project!
-Jason Kridner, TI catalog processors open platforms principal architect

[1] http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/sprc831.html
[2] https://www-a.ti.com/downloads/sds_support/targetcontent/LinuxDspTool...
[3] https://www-a.ti.com/downloads/sds_support/targetcontent/link/index.html (1.60 for Linux, not the porting kit)
[4] https://www-a.ti.com/downloads/sds_support/targetcontent/CE/index.html (2.21 now BSD licensed)
[5] http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/RTSC
[6] https://community.ti.com/

Thanks for sending this update to the list, Jason.

Hi Jason,

This is very good news from TI.

On Dec 5, 8:43 pm, "Kridner, Jason" <j...@ti.com> wrote:

Indeed this is very good news. Open Sourcing the DSPlink and CEruntime
libraries makes it possible to legally link it and distribute with
VLC. I have not looked into the licensing details yet, but it looks
like there won't be a problem.

Thank you TI for your good work!