3. SDK Components¶

The following table lists all the top-level folders in the SDK package and the component it represents.

Folder	Component
app_utils	Application Utilities (app_utils)
c7x-mma-tidl	TI Deep learning Product (TIDL)
cg_xml_*	CGT XML Processing Scripts
dsplib*	DSPLIB (C7x DSP)
edgeai-tiovx-apps	Edge AI TIOVX Apps
fftlib_*	FFTLIB (C7x DSP)
imaging	Imaging
ivision	IVISION
mathlib_*	MATHLIB (C7x DSP)
mmalib_*	MMALIB (C7x DSP)
mcu_plus_sdk_*	MCU PLUS SDK
psdk_rtos	SDK Scripts and Documentation
sdk_builder	SDK Builder
sdl	Software Diagnostics Library (SDL)
tiadalg	TI Autonomous Driving Algorithms (TIADALG)
ti-perception-toolkit	Perception Toolkit (PTK)
tiovx	TI OpenVX (TIOVX)
tisp	TISP (C7x DSP)
video_io	Video Input/Output Kernels (video_io)
vision_apps	Vision Apps
vxlib	VXLIB (C7x DSP)

The following table lists all the packages that needs to downloaded separately or the script setup_psdk_rtos.sh will download these packages under /home/$USER/ti. Refer vision apps user guide [LINK].

Folder	Component
ti-cgt-arm_*	TI ARM R5F code generation tools
ti-cgt-c7000_*	C7x code generation tools

3.1. HLOS Support (A53)¶

The vision apps demos assume and support either Linux or QNX running on the A53.

3.1.1. Processor SDK Linux J722S¶

This package contains Linux kernel, uboot, filesystem and other linux tools.

Important

This package is NOT included in PSDK RTOS installer and needs to be downloaded separately
Either this package or QNX package MUST be downloaded to run vision apps, TI OpenVX demos.

Version	11_01_00_03
Release notes	${PSDK_LINUX_PATH}/docs/linux/index.html
User guide	${PSDK_LINUX_PATH}/docs/linux/index.html

3.1.2. Processor SDK QNX J722S¶

This package contains the QNX SDK components that include:

QNX resource manager for sci-client, udma, ipc and sharedmemory allocator

DEVNP driver for CPSW2G

Test examples and sample applications

Important

This package is NOT included in PSDK RTOS installer and needs to be downloaded separately
Either this package or Linux package MUST be downloaded to run vision apps, TI OpenVX demos.

Version	11_01_00
Release notes	${PSDK_QNX_PATH}/docs/qnx/index.html
User guide	${PSDK_QNX_PATH}/docs/qnx/index.html

3.2. SDK Builder¶

This package contains support for building different components.

Version	11_01_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.3. Vision Apps¶

This package contains Camera, ADAS, vision, perception, OpenVX demos.

Version	11_01_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.4. Edge AI TIOVX Apps¶

This package contains OpenVx based Edge AI applications

Version	11_01_00
User guide	LINK

3.5. Application Utilities (app_utils)¶

This package contains TI’s common abstraction layers for IPC and shared memory management that are used by TIOVX and Vision Apps. Below are the modules present in this package

console_io/file_io: Logging mechanism for remote cores Vto HLOS. Chunk of memory is reserved in DDR to send the logs from remote cores to HLOS.

ipc: Implements an abstraction layer between IPC stack for RTOS and HLOS(linux/QNX)

mem: Abstraction for shared memory heap management for RTOS and HLOS

perf_stats: APIs for HLOS to query performance data like remote core, HWA, DDR loading. Remote service framework is used to query data from remote cores

remote_service: A simple framework for remote cores to provide a user defined service to HLOS.

Version	11_01_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.6. MCU PLUS SDK¶

This package contains device drivers, bootloaders, CSL for baremetal/RTOS.

Version	11_01_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.7. System firmware (SYSFW)¶

This package provides services for clock, power and resource management. These services are accessed via the “sciclient” interface in PDK.

Version	11_01_08
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.8. TI OpenVX (TIOVX)¶

This package contains TI’s implementation of OpenVX.

Version	11_01_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.9. Video Input/Output Kernels (video_io)¶

This package contains OpenVX kernels for CSI2RX, CSITX, and Display. These kernels used FVID2 interface to interact with low level drivers in MCU_PLUS_SDK for Capture and Display.

3.10. TI Deep learning Product (TIDL)¶

This package contains TI’s Deep Learning inference solution with many industry wide open source run time (TFLite Runtime, ONNX Runtime and TVM based run time) on ARM MPU with an optimized TIDL runtime back-end on C7x and MMA. It also contains necessary tools for DNN compilation and provides many examples in both python and C to exercise tools and inference solution. It also contains OpenVX kernels for TIDL and TVM.

Version	11_01_06_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.11. MMALIB (C7x DSP)¶

This package contains MMA compute libraries

Version	11_01_00_06
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.12. Imaging¶

This package contains auto-exposure, auto-whilte balance algorithms for TI ISP. It also contains image sensor drivers, tuning parameters, as well as OpenVX kernels for VPAC and DMPAC.

Version	11_01_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.13. Perception Toolkit (PTK)¶

This package contains APIs and utilities for perception/fusion related functions and visualizations

Version	11_01_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.14. TI Autonomous Driving Algorithms (TIADALG)¶

This package contains sample pre-processing, post processing and other algorithms for autonomous driving.

Version	11_01_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.15. Software Diagnostics Library (SDL)¶

This package provides interfaces to safety mechanisms and features for the development of software applications involving Functional Safety

Version	11_01_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.16. DSPLIB (C7x DSP)¶

This package implements common DSP functions for C7x

Version	11_00_00_01
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.17. FFTLIB (C7x DSP)¶

This package contains FFT compute libraries for C7x

Version	11_00_00_01
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.18. MATHLIB (C7x DSP)¶

This package implements common optimized math.h functions for C7x

Version	11_00_00_01
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.19. VXLIB (C7x DSP)¶

This package implements common vision kernels for C7x

Version	11_00_00_01
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.20. TISP (C7x DSP)¶

This package implements common signal processing for C7x

Version	11_00_00_03
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.21. CTools Library¶

CTools of Chip Tools contains a set of fundamental libraries to provide the debug facilities. CTools package is not included in PSDK RTOS installer and needs to be downloaded separately.

User Guide/Download Link

https://software-dl.ti.com/emulation/esd/ctoolslib_k3/CToolsLib_K3.html

3.22. RTOS¶

3.22.1. IVISION¶

This package consists has extensions ot the XDAIS DSP algorithm interface used in TIDL and TIADALG.

Version	01.00.00.00
Release notes	LINK

3.23. Code generation tools (CGT)¶

3.23.1. C7x code generation tools¶

This package contains C7x compiler, linker, host emulation mode libraries.

Version	5.0.0.LTS
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.23.2. TI ARM R5F code generation tools¶

This package contains TI ARM R5F compiler, linker.

Version	3.2.2.LTS
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.23.3. GCC ARM code generation tools¶

GCC tools are used to compile and link code on ARM A53. ARM CGT required for R5 Uboot and A53 Linux are packaged as part of SDK

CGT	Download link
ARM64 CGT for A53 RTOS	https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu-a/9.2-2019.12/binrel/gcc-arm-9.2-2019.12-x86_64-aarch64-none-elf.tar.xz

Important

These packages are NOT included in PSDK RTOS installer and needs to be downloaded separately.
The script setup_psdk_rtos.sh downloads these packages. Refer vision apps user guide [LINK].

3.23.4. CGT XML Processing Scripts¶

This package contains Code Generation Tools XML Processing Scripts

Version	2.61.00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK