1. Software Packages Needed for Performing Real-time DSP Labs on Personal Machine
By Yeong Choo and Sam Kanawati
The University of Texas at Austin, January 17, 2018

2. Step 1, MATLAB Installation
Download a full version of MATLAB (any version works!) onto your laptop via the university site license: Requesting a Math Works account happens through UT ServiceNow during the download process. The account creation procedure including an “activation key” will be sent to your associated with UT Austin.
Please follow instructions on account creation directly from the .
During the installation, please select, at least, “DSP System Toolbox, Signal Processing Toolbox”, and “Image Processing Toolbox”.

3. Step 2, Code Composer Studio (CCS) Installation -- Mac Users
For Mac users. We recommend you to install Windows using a virtual machine for the Mac, such as VMware, available free for UT students at and then complete the windows Installation steps.

4. Step 2, Code Composer Studio (CCS) Installation -- Windows Users
For Windows Users, download CCS version for free at
Installation takes ~ min and is around 500 MB

5. Step 2, Code Composer Studio (CCS) Installation -- Windows Users
When performing installation under Windows, please select “OMAP L1x DSP + ARM9 Processor”, “OMAP Processors” , and “C6000 Power Optimized DSP” at minimum as shown by the following:

6. Step 2, Code Composer Studio (CCS) Installation -- Windows Users
Also, select “TI XDS Debug Probe Support” which is necessary to be used along with the L138 (LCDK) board and XDS100v2 JTAG debug probe, as shown by the following:

7. Step 3, Starter Code and WinDSK Installation
Please visit the link at to complete the following task
Download starter codes folder for CCS (second bullet point), extract, and place in C:/
Download WinDSK8 program (fourth bullet point)