DSP/BIOS Timers and Benchmarking Tips

Texas Instruments

Published Date: 07/16/2002

Description

Digital signal processors (DSPs) typically have one or more on-chip timers that generate hardware interrupts at periodic intervals. DSP/BIOS™ normally uses one of the available on-chip timers as a source for its system clock. The on-chip timer can also be used to generate periodic hardware interrupts from the user application. DSP/BIOS also has a PRD module that allows the user to trigger pe