Appendix A (Code Composer Studio, pp. 273-293) gives a tutorial of Texas Instruments' integrated development environment - Code Composer StudioTM (CCS), for developing routines on a wide variety of DSPs. Learning to use CCS is a necessary step to bridging the gap between DSP theory and real-time DSP.
Appendix B (DSP/BIOS, pp. 295-309) provides a short description of real time operating system (DSP/BIOS), and three projects intended to get readers started in the DSP/BIOS environment.
Fixed point and floating point numeric representation in Appendix C (Numeric Representation, pp. 311-318) are given.
First part of the Appendix D (TMS320C6x architecture, pp. 319-330) is intended to serve as a basic primer on computer architecture to the extent necessary to have a better understanding of the TMS320C6x architecture. The second part of this appendix discusses the TMS320C6x architecture in some detail.
Appendix E (Related Tools for DSKs) contains information on several tools that are available for using three variety of the TMS320C6x DSKs.
Appendix F (Programming Perils and Pitfalls, pp. 343-347) is intended to illustrate some of the common problems that are encountered in real-time environment, and present practical strategies for avoiding them.
Finally, Appendix G (Abbreviations) contain a partial list of abbreviations used in the text.