
Appendix B
DSP/BIOS
B.1 Introduction
S
OME readers are curious about DSP/BIOS, which is a real-time operating system spe-
cific to the Texas Instruments DSPs [84,85]. This appendix provides a short description
of DSP/BIOS, and several projects intended to get you started in the DSP/BIOS environ-
ment.
B.1.1 DSP/BIOS Major Features
The major features of DSP/BIOS include:
• The scheduler and its associated thread classes provide a mechanism for arranging
and controlling the software’s execution. The scheduler is preemptive, meaning that it
will periodically interrupt the currently executing thread, determine what the highest
priority thread is that is ready ...