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Texas Instruments MSP50C614 User Manual

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Requirements

5-4

5.3

Requirements

The requirements for a complete MSP50C6xx development system are as
follows:

PC Requirements:

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Intel i486

or Pentium

class processor

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Microsoft Windows

3.11, Windows 95

, or Windows 98

operating system

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16-MB memory

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8-MB hard disk space

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Parallel port interface

Development Requirements:

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MSP50C6xx Scanport Interface (MSPSI)

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MSP50C6xx software development tool (Included with MSPSI)

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Several PGA packaged MSP50P614s

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EPROM eraser (UV light source)

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Application board (see the following note)

Note:

The user may provide their own application board, but TI has a basic applica-
tion board that may provide everything needed to start software develop-
ment. This board is called the speech EVM and was designed to support sev-
eral TI speech devices by using different personality cards. The user will
need to use the appropriate personality card for the device that is being de-
veloped.