DSP/BIOS 6.00 Release Notes

This release note is divided into the following sections:

Introduction, Documentation, What's New, Upgrading And Compatibility Information, Host Support, Dependencies, Device Support, Validation Information, Known Issues, Benchmarks, Versioning, Technical Support And Product Updates,


Introduction

DSP/BIOS 6.00 is a major new release of DSP/BIOS with significant changes from BIOS 5.x.

Please read the Getting Started Guide for help installing and setting up your environment to use DSP/BIOS 6.00.

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Documentation

The following documentation is provided with this release:

Release notes from previous releases are also available in the release notes archive directory (Note* This will be empty for this first release).

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What's New

6.00.00.29 Release (this release)

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Upgrading And Compatibility Information

DSP/BIOS 6.00 contains compatibility APIs and configuration support to make migration of BIOS 5.x code easier. Check the 'legacy' example provided by the genx utility for example that uses BIOS 5.x legacy API and .tcf code. Documentation summarizing use of legacy APIs is provided in the documentation.

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Host Support

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Dependencies

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Device Support

This release supports the following devices:

  Device Platform Runtime Model
64x 6416 dsk6416 Little Endian
  DM642 evmDM642 Little Endian
64x+ DM6446 evmDM6446 Little Endian
  6455 evm6455 Little Endian
67x+ 6727 padk6727 Little Endian
ARM DM6446 evmDM6446 Little Endian
PC Windows win32 Visual Studio 8.0

 
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Validation Information

This release was built using the following components:

This release was validated using the following components:

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Known Issues

The following issues are known to affect this release:

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Benchmarks

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Versioning

This product's version follows a version format, M.mm.pp.bb, where M is a single digit Major number, mm is 2 digit minor number, pp is a 2 digit patch number, and b is an unrestricted set of digits used as an incrementing build counter.

To support multiple side-by-side installations of the product, the product version is encoded in the top level directory, ex. bios_6_00.

Subsequent releases of patch upgrades will be identified by the patch number, ex. BIOS 6.00.01 with directory bios_6_00_01. Typically, these patches only include critical bug fixes.

Please note that version numbers and compatibility keys are NOT the same. For an explanation of compatibility keys, please refer to the 'Upgrade and Compatibility Information' section.

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Technical Support And Product Updates

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Last updated: Aug 13, 2007