Intended Audience; Manual Contents - Analog Devices VisualDSP++ 3.5 Manual

Intended Audience

Intended Audience
The manual is primarily intended for programmers who are familiar with
Analog Devices embedded processors and DSPs. This manual assumes
that the audience has a working knowledge of the appropriate device
architecture and instruction set. Programmers who are unfamiliar with
Analog Devices DSPs can use this manual but should supplement it with
other texts, such as Hardware Reference and Instruction Set Reference manu-
als, that describe your target architecture.

Manual Contents

The manual contains:
• Chapter 1,
This chapter provides an overview of the linker and utilities.
• Chapter 2,
This chapter describes how to combine object files into reusable
library files to link routines referenced by other object files.
• Chapter 3,
This chapter describes how to write an
target.
• Chapter 4,
This chapter describes Expert Linker, which is an interactive
graphical tool to set up and map DSP memory.
• Chapter 5,
This chapter describes how overlays and advanced LDF commands
are used for memory management.
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"Introduction"
"Linker"
"Linker Description File"
"Expert Linker"
"Memory Overlays and Advanced LDF Commands"
VisualDSP++ 3.5 Linker and Utilities Manual
file to define the
.LDF
for 16-Bit Processors