4. SDK Components

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

Folder

Component

app_utils

TI OpenVX (TIOVX)

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

ethfw

Ethernet Switch Firmware (ETHFW)

fftlib_*

FFTLIB (C7x DSP)

imaging

Imaging

VHWA

VHWA

ivision

IVISION

mathlib_*

MATHLIB (C7x DSP)

mcusw

MCU Software (MCU SW)

mmalib_*

MMALIB (C7x DSP)

pdk_j784s4_*

Platform Development Kit (PDK)

psdk_rtos

SDK Scripts and Documentation

sdk_builder

Vision Apps

sdl

Software Diagnostics Library (SDL)

tiadalg

TI Autonomous Driving Algorithms (TIADALG)

ti-perception-toolkit

Perception Toolkit (PTK)

tiovx

TI OpenVX (TIOVX)

video_io

TI OpenVX (TIOVX)

vision_apps

Vision Apps

vxlib

VXLIB

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

4.1. HLOS Support (A72)

The vision apps demos assume and support either Linux or QNX running on the A72.

4.1.1. Processor SDK Linux J784S4

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

09.02.00.05

Release notes

${PSDK_LINUX_PATH}/docs/linux/index.html

User guide

${PSDK_LINUX_PATH}/docs/linux/index.html

4.1.2. Processor SDK QNX J784S4

This package contains the QNX SDK components that include:

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

  • DEVNP driver for CPSW2G and CPSW5G

  • 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

09_02_00

Release notes

${PSDK_QNX_PATH}/docs/qnx/index.html

User guide

${PSDK_QNX_PATH}/docs/qnx/index.html

4.2. SDK Builder

This package contains support for building different components.

Version

09_02_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.3. Vision Apps

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

Version

09_02_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.4. Edge AI TIOVX Apps

This package contains OpenVx based Edge AI applications

Version

09_02_00

User guide

LINK

4.5. Application Utilities (app_utils)

This package contains TI’s common abstraction layers that are used by TIOVX and Vision Apps.

Version

09_02_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.6. Platform Development Kit (PDK)

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

Version

09_02_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.7. MCU Software (MCU SW)

This package contains integrated MCU demos, MCAL for AutoSAR.

Version

09_02_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.8. Software Diagnostics Library (SDL)

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

Version

01_03_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.9. System firmware (SYSFW)

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

Version

09_02_07

User guide

LINK

4.10. TI OpenVX (TIOVX)

This package contains TI’s implementation of OpenVX.

Version

09_02_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.11. Video Input/Output Kernels (video_io)

This package contains OpenVX kernels for CSI2RX, CSITX, and Display.

Version

09_02_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.12. 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.

Version

09_02_05_02

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.13. MMALIB (C7x DSP)

This package contains MMA compute libraries

Version

09_02_00_08

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.14. 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

09_02_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.15. VHWA

The Vision Hardware Accelerator (VHWA) provides the logic to interface for MSC, NF, LDC, VISS, DOF and SDE accelerators. This is VHWA FVID2 driver documentation.

To build the user guide for VHWA run ‘make all’ from vhwa/docs/doxygen/

Version

09_02_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.16. Ethernet Switch Firmware (ETHFW)

This package contains Ethernet Switch Firmware for R5F.

Version

09_02_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.17. Perception Toolkit (PTK)

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

Version

01_05_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.18. TI Autonomous Driving Algorithms (TIADALG)

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

Version

08_06_00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.19. DSPLIB (C7x DSP)

This package implements common DSP functions for C7x

Version

09_02_00_04

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.20. FFTLIB (C7x DSP)

This package contains FFT compute libraries for C7x

Version

09_02_00_04

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.21. MATHLIB (C7x DSP)

This package implements common optimized math.h functions for C7x

Version

09_02_00_04

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.22. VXLIB

This package implements OpenVX v1.1 low level kernels cross compiled for C7x DSP

Version

1_1_7_0

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.23. VXLIB (C7x DSP)

This package implements common vision kernels for C7x

Version

09_02_00_04

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.24. 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

4.25. RTOS

4.25.1. 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

4.26. Code generation tools (CGT)

4.26.1. C7x code generation tools

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

Version

4.1.0.LTS

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.26.2. TI ARM R5F code generation tools

This package contains TI ARM R5F compiler, linker.

Version

3.2.1.LTS

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK

4.26.3. GCC ARM code generation tools

GCC tools are used to compile and link code on ARM A72.

CGT

Download link

ARM64 CGT for A72 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

ARM64 CGT for A72 Linux

https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu/11.3.rel1/binrel/arm-gnu-toolchain-11.3.rel1-x86_64-aarch64-none-linux-gnu.tar.xz

ARM32 CGT for R5F U Boot

https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu-a/9.2-2019.12/binrel/gcc-arm-9.2-2019.12-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz

Important

  1. These packages are NOT included in PSDK RTOS installer and needs to be downloaded separately.

  2. The script setup_psdk_rtos.sh downloads these packages. Refer vision apps user guide [LINK].

4.26.4. CGT XML Processing Scripts

This package contains Code Generation Tools XML Processing Scripts

Version

2.61.00

Release notes

LINK

User guide

LINK