| 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 2.0.8, are:
 
	 Support for TMS320C6657 (beta quality)
	 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: Please install Code Composer Studio before installing BIOS-MCSDK package.
 
 Supported Platforms
 
	
		| Platform Development Kit | Supported Devices | Supported EVMs |  
		| C6657 | TMS320C6657 | TMDSEVM6657L, TMDSEVM6657LE |  
		| C6670 | TMS320C6670, TMS320TCI6618 | TMDSEVM6670L, TMDSEVM6670LE, TMDSEVM6670LXE, TMDSEVM6618LXE |  
		| C6678 | TMS320C6678, TMS320TCI6608 | TMDSEVM6678L,TMDSEVM6678LE, TMDSEVM6678LXE |  Software Defects
 A list of software defects can be found here.
 
 
 Support For technical discussions and issues, please visit 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.
 
 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").  |