Rapid prototyping system for teaching real-time digital signal processing

Author

Gan, Woon-Seng ; Chong, Yong-Kim ; Gong, Wilson ; Tan, Wei-Tong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

Volume

43

Issue

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

24

Abstract

A low-cost rapid-prototyping system using Texas Instruments´ (TI) TMS320C30 Evaluation Module (EVM) based on the MathWorks development software is presented in this paper. The rapid prototyping system serves as an educational tool in learning digital signal processing (DSP) and seeing the concept realized in real time. The development software modules, Simulink, uses graphical block diagrams to create models for real-time implementation and the real-time workshop (RTW), generates C code to be downloaded onto the EVM. The entire building process is fully automatic. This includes compiling, assembling and downloading of the real-time algorithms. The system was found to be well suited for learning real-time DSP algorithms for both undergraduate and postgraduate levels

Keywords

computer aided instruction; digital signal processing chips; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; real-time systems; signal processing; software prototyping; teaching; C code generation; CAI; MathWorks development software; Simulink; TMS320C30 Evaluation Module; assembling; compiling; development software modules; downloading; educational tool; graphical block diagrams; postgraduate education; rapid prototyping system; real-time DSP algorithms; real-time digital signal processing teaching; real-time workshop; undergraduate education; Assembly; Digital signal processing; Education; Hardware; Instruments; Mathematical model; Prototypes; Real time systems; Signal processing algorithms; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.825735

Filename

825735