Which DSP has the most open source tools?

[twinsen]

Hi all

Which DSP has the most open source tools available? I am looking for one that hopefully has a free C compiler available.

 

[ramesh]

I hope nothing is fully free. You will find the tools all the DSPs of Analog Devices (SHARC, Tiger SHARC, BLACKFIN, ADSP-21xx) are free for 90 days.
You may visit the following site for downloading

https://www.analog.com/processors/resources/crosscore/toolsUpgrades.html

 

[altivec]

some DSP are supported within GCC

for Blackfin : http://blackfin.uclinux.org/

 

[the_penetrator]

yeah, only through GNU.

Some TMS320C4x and TMS320C54x are available in GCC. Binutils support is also reasonable for these TI DSPs.

Not much else i think...

the_penetrator©

 

[altivec]

there are also free compiler for other analog device DSP and for motorola DSP56000

one should refer to the comp.dsp faq : https://www.bdti.com/faq/ on section 3 "Programmable DSP chips and their software"

I guess that they are many other that not listed, especially for general purpose processor that are used for signal procesing such as G4 from motorola or SH4 from hitachi