That's nice. In the article, a TI rep is quoted saying, "We believe customers will be able to develop their devices three times faster than when using FPGAs —

That's nice. In the article, a TI rep is quoted saying, "We believe customers will be able to develop their devices three times faster than when using FPGAs — in days rather than weeks" I'm kind of wondering about that. Maybe if you were already up and running with syslink/codecengine/xdctools, etc. IMHO, working with TI's c6X DSPs was just awful, and their software suite was one of the only dev environments that has made me pine for Xilinx's stuff. Syslink? Perhaps the worst-behaved linux kernel module I've ever encountered. Xdctools? Did anyone ever really want yet another build system? And in javascript? When we were working with the toolchain, even TI considered it inscrutable - their own image loader was a hacked example buried deep in the xdctools examples dir. And support? Every time we sent an email to TI, all we got was, "have you asked this question in the TI forums?" It was such a ridiculously poor standard of support that eventually it became a joke on our team. But I know that in embedded, the quality of the software tools is rarely considered. Oh well.