Rapid prototyping system for teaching real-time digital signal processing

A low-cost rapid-prototyping system using Texas Instruments' (TI) TMS320C30 Evaluation Module (EVM) based on the MathWorks' development software is pr esented in this paper. The rapid prototyping system serves as an educationa l tool in learning digital signal processing (DSP) and seeing the concept r ealized in real time. The development software modules, Simulink, uses grap hical block diagrams to create models for real-time implementation and the real-time workshop (RTW), generates C code to be downloaded onto the EVM. T he entire building process is fully automatic. This includes compiling, ass embling, and downloading of the real-time algorithms. The system was found to be well suited for learning real-time DSP algorithms for both undergradu ate and postgraduate levels.