TMS320DM6446 to TMS320DM6437 Migration Guide

This application report describes device considerations for migrating a design based on a TI TMS320DM6446 Digital Media System-on-Chip (SoC) to one based on a TI TMS320DM6437 Digital Media Processor (DMP). These two devices have many similarities; they both contain the TMS320C64x+™ DSP CPU core, feature video frontand back-end processing capability, and a similar mixture of memory and other peripherals useful in a system environment. The TMS320DM6446 also contains an ARM CPU core, however, the TMS320DM6437 does not. This document describes the details of the considerations of concern for performing this migration.

Note that since this document describes migration from a TMS320DM6446 device to a TMS320DM6437, familiarity with the TMS320DM6446 device and its documentation is assumed.

You can find the documentation for the TMS320DM6446 and the TMS320DM6437 referenced in this migration guide on the TI website located in the device-specific product folders at:

http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tms320dm6437.html

http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tms320dm6446.html