Digital signal processing system design: using LabVIEW and TMS320C6000

LabVIEW, developed by National Instruments, is a graphical programming environment suited for high-level or system-level design. It allows the integration of different signal processing components or subsystems within a graphical framework. This paper introduces a LabVIEW-based book being written for the purpose of furnishing a textbook for DSP laboratory courses offered at many engineering schools. Two examples, namely signal filtering and DTMF receiver, are presented to show how DSP systems are designed using the LabVIEW graphical programming environment. In addition, the book presents the way to implement any desired component(s) of a DSP system on Texas Instruments C6x DSK boards. It is shown how the real-time data exchange feature of the TI Code Composer Studio allows users to establish a communication link between a host PC running LabVIEW and a C6x DSK board.