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This is a maintenance update for the production BIOS MCSDK R2.0.0 release.This update can be manually downloaded or automatically downloaded directly from CCS using Eclipse Update Manager; see the BIOS MCSDK User's Guide for details on setting up automatic software updates.

The BIOS Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) provides the core foundational building blocks that facilitate application software development on TI's high performance and multicore DSPs. This software release gives developers the ability to evaluate major software capabilities of KeyStone family devices.

The major updates from the last maintenance release, BIOS MCSDK 2.0.3, are:

Added Single IBL image support
IPC transport Optimizations
Bug fixes (see the Release Notes for full list)

The foundational components include:

SYS/BIOS which is a light-weight real-time embedded operating system for TI devices
Chip support libraries, drivers, and basic platform utilities
Interprocessor communication for communication across cores and devices
Basic networking stack and protocols
Optimized application-specific and application non-specific algorithm libraries
Debug and instrumentation
Bootloaders and boot utilities
Demonstrations and examples

Please see the following wiki pages for more information:

Note that C66x device queries should be posted to the C66x Multicore E2E forum, while development tool queries should be posted to the CCS or Compiler forums as appropriate. MCSDK related queries should be posted to the BIOS forum.

Note: Please install Code Composer Studio before installing BIOS-MCSDK package.

Supported Platforms

Platform Development Kit	Supported Devices	Supported EVMs
C6670	TMS320C6670, TMS320TCI6618	TMDXEVM6670L, TMDXEVM6618LXE
C6678	TMS320C6678, TMS320TCI6608	TMDEVM6678L

Software Defects
A list of software defects can be found here.

Support

For technical discussions and issues, please visit

When asking for help in the forum you should tag your posts in the Subject with "MCSDK", the part number (e.g. "C6678") and software component (e.g. "NDK").

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BIOS-MCSDK Product Downloads
Title		Description	Size
	bios_mcsdk_releasenotes_02_00_04.pdf	BIOS MCSDK Release Notes and Licensing overview	308K
	bios_mcsdk_02_00_04_16_setupwin32.exe	BIOS MCSDK Post Production Package for Windows	886436K
	bios_mcsdk_02_00_04_16_setuplinux.bin	BIOS MCSDK Post Production Package for Linux	1098080K
Dependencies
	MinGW Installer	MinGW packages are needed to build the Intermediate Bootloader (IBL)
	CCS v5.0.3.00028	This is the TI Code Composer Studio IDE. It contains the IDE, CodeGen Tools, debugger and base components such as BIOS, IPC and so forth.
	Python ver 2.7.2	Tools needed to run Multicore Application Deployment (MAD) Utilities
	Code Gen 7.2.4 Windows	Codegen Tools for Windows
	Code Gen 7.2.4 Linux	Codegen Tools for Linux
Previous Releases
	BIOS-MCSDK 2.0.3	BIOS MCSDK Post Production Release (Septemebr 22, 2011 )
	BIOS-MCSDK 2.0.2	BIOS MCSDK Post Production Release (September 07, 2011)
	BIOS-MCSDK 2.0.1	BIOS MCSDK Post Production Release (July 28, 2011)
	BIOS-MCSDK 2.0.0	BIOS MCSDK Production Release (June 30, 2011)
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