Study and Realization of Boot Procedure of Multi-core DSP C6678

Multi-core drgital signal processing (DSP) brought a quality improvement to the signal processing capabilities. The TMS320C6678 DSP presented by Texas Instruments (TI) is a representative high-performance multi-core DSP. Boot technique is one of the key techniques of the DSP's application. C6678 has various peripheral interfaces and can select different boot devices. Owing to this and the existence of multiple cores, it's boot procedure is considerable complex. This paper gave a deep research on boot modes of C6678, discussed the specific boot steps of C6678's eight cores, providing practical methods and experience to the developing of C6678 boot programs.