Introduction
The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) co-processor reference design demonstrates the use of an Altera® FPGA as a high-performance digital signal processing (DSP) co-processor to the Texas Instruments TMS320C6000 family of programmable digital signal processors. The hardware interface is a connection between the TI digital signal processor’s external memory interface (EMIF) and the first-in first-out (FIFO) buffers on the FPGA. The reference design utilizes TI’s
TMS320C6416 DSP Starter Kit (DSK), which features a TI TMS320C6416 device and the Altera Stratix® IIDSP development board, which features an EP2S60F1020C4 FPGA.