The Pismo Toolset is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art collection of software tools and libraries used in the development of applications for our Matador and Velocia Series of DSP boards. Pismo covers all the aspects of a new DSP project. Pismo is used in conjunction with Code Composer Studio, Texas Instrument’s integrated development environment, for code editing, compiling/linking, downloading and hardware-assisted debugging via JTAG. Downloading is also possible over the PCI bus (without JTAG), simply by running our Download utility. All features of CCStudio are supported and well utilized whenever possible: DSP-BIOS II with our board specific peripheral device drivers, extensive use of the Chip Support Library, and full bandwidth RTDX support. Pismo ships with a large library of carefully crafted C++ class libraries, which substantially mitigate the complexity of programming the 6711/6414 DSP hardware and facilitate use of the BIOS operating system. Numerous example programs are provided with their entire project file set and source code that illustrate the use of board-specific functions, peripheral device-drivers and communication techniques with the host program. In these examples, we demonstrate the typical usage of the board peripherals at full bandwidth and the code may serve as a starting point to the developer. Bus-mastered data transfers and asynchronous mailbox messaging are well documented and illustrated