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	TI OpenVX (TIOVX)
c7x_mma_tidl \| TI Deep learning Product (TIDL)
cg_xml_* \| CGT XML Processing Scripts
dsplib_*	DSPLIB (C7x DSP)
dsplib_c66x_*	DSPLIB (C66x 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)
mathlib_c66x_*	MATHLIB (C66x DSP)
mcusw	MCU Software (MCU SW)
mmalib_*	MMALIB (C7x DSP)
pdk_jacinto_*	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 (C7x DSP)
vxlib	VXLIB (C66x 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-c6000_*	C6x code generation tools
ti-cgt-c7000_*	C7x code generation tools

3.1. HLOS Support (A72)¶

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

3.1.1. Processor SDK Linux J721E¶

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

3.1.2. Processor SDK QNX J721E¶

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 CPSW9G

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

3.2. SDK Builder¶

This package contains support for building different components.

Version	09_02_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.3. Vision Apps¶

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

Version	09_02_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.4. Edge AI TIOVX Apps¶

This package contains OpenVx based Edge AI applications

Version	09_02_00
User guide	LINK

3.5. 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

3.6. Platform Development Kit (PDK)¶

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

Version	09_02_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.7. MCU Software (MCU SW)¶

This package contains integrated MCU demos, MCAL for AutoSAR.

Version	09_02_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.8. 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

3.9. 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

3.10. TI OpenVX (TIOVX)¶

This package contains TI’s implementation of OpenVX.

Version	09_02_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.11. 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

3.12. 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. It also contains OpenVX kernels for TIDL and TVM.

Version	09_02_05_02
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.13. MMALIB (C7x DSP)¶

This package contains MMA compute libraries

Version	09_02_00_08
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.14. 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

3.15. 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

3.16. Ethernet Switch Firmware (ETHFW)¶

This package contains Ethernet Switch Firmware for R5F.

Version	09_02_00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.17. 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

3.18. 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

3.19. DSPLIB (C66x DSP)¶

This package implements common DSP functions for C66x

Version	3_4_0_0
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.20. DSPLIB (C7x DSP)¶

This package implements common DSP functions for C7x

Version	09_02_00_04
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.21. FFTLIB (C7x DSP)¶

This package contains FFT compute libraries for C7x

Version	09_02_00_04
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.22. MATHLIB (C66x DSP)¶

This package implements common optimized math.h functions for C66x

Version	3_1_2_1
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.23. MATHLIB (C7x DSP)¶

This package implements common optimized math.h functions for C7x

Version	09_02_00_04
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.24. VXLIB (C66x DSP)¶

This package implements OpenVX v1.1 low level kernels for C66x

Version	1_1_7_0
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.25. VXLIB (C7x DSP)¶

This package implements common vision kernels for C7x

Version	09_02_00_04
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.26. 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

3.27. RTOS¶

3.27.1. IVISION¶

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

Version	01.00.00.00
Release notes	LINK

3.28. Code generation tools (CGT)¶

3.28.1. C7x code generation tools¶

This package contains C7x compiler, linker, host emulation libraries

Version	4.1.0.LTS
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.28.2. C6x code generation tools¶

This package contains C6x compiler, linker.

Version	8.3.7
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK

3.28.3. 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

3.28.4. 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

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].

3.28.5. CGT XML Processing Scripts¶

This package contains Code Generation Tools XML Processing Scripts

Version	2.61.00
Release notes	LINK
User guide	LINK