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−A pair of little ad hoc programs has been been added to FreeCalypso host tools
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−for the purpose of dumping the Calypso chip's internal DSP mask ROM.  These two
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−programs are the dspdump target utility (see Target-utils) and the fc-dspromdump
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−front end host tool built in the loadtools suite.  This addition is being
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−documented here for the sake of completeness, but it is not expected that anyone
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−will ever need to use these DSP ROM dump tools.  Instead our fc-dspromdump tool
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−was written so it could be run exactly 3 times:
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−* Our new tool was run once against a common DSP 3606 target to verify that it
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−  produces exactly the same output as the old tool implemented a decade ago by
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−  our political rivals over at OsmocomBB, the dsp-rom-3606-dump.txt output that
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−  has been published on our FTP site since 2017.  The test result is yes, our
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−  new tool produces exactly the same dump output when run against the same DSP
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−  ROM version.
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−* Our fc-dspromdump tool was then run two more times against less common DSP ROM
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−  versions: it was run on a D-Sample C05 board and an FCDEV3B-751774 board,
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−  producing our newly published dumps of Calypso DSP ROM versions 3311 and 3416,
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−  respectively.
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−We have now collected and published all 3 DSP ROM versions that are known to
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−have been featured in the evolutionary history of our beloved Calypso chip:
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−3311, 3416 and 3606.  Because our target-utils and loadtools frameworks are
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−quite specific to Calypso and there are no other Calypso DSP ROM versions
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−besides the 3 which we've already collected and published, it is unlikely that
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−anyone else will need to run our DSP ROM dump tools as they stand.  But if
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−anyone is interested in exploring some other TI DBB chips that came before or
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−after Calypso and is prepared to do the necessary work, our DSP ROM dump tools
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−might have some use as a starting point.