Using a uC with the ADAU1701

As you've read in the other threads discussing integration of a microcontroller with the SigmaDSP, SigmaStudio provides a lot of the files that you'll need to get started with your uC development. Your choice of uC will depend on how much you want the device to do in your system. If you just need it to boot the SigmaDSP, then you can probably get by with a pretty simple device with enough memory to hold your program, parameter, and registers settings (either on-board or in an external EEPROM). Many uCs include an on board hardware I2C or SPI port. These hardware blocks make communicating to the SigmaDSP through these ports very easy; it's pretty straightforward to write data out of the uC without having to build your own control port in software.

Jerad, thanks for the quick response!

I remember mention of a tutorial in the works back in 2009 regarding booting from a uC. Was this tutorial ever created? If not, could you please list the exact steps required in order to boot from a uC, possibly with a an example? I am pretty confident in my ability to get something to work, but I would like minimize development time and avoid reinventing the wheel, especially when I've got the ear of the people who made the DSP and clearly know what they are doing :-)

- Chris

No, there isn't a specific tutorial available for microcontroller development, but the information available in the SigmaStudio help file and here on this forum should be enough to get your dev started. Another good resource is to use SigmaStudio's Capture Window. This shows you everything that SigmaStudio writes to and reads from the target hardware. In this way, it's really just acting like a uC would in a system, so you could do worse than to copy the communications that SigmaStudio is performing when you download your project to the hardware. Doing that, you'll still want to make sure to check the datasheet for the IC you're using to ensure that your sequence and timing match the recommendations included in there.

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