Hexagon DSP

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Hexagon, also known as Qualcomm DSP6, is the name of the CPU in the MDM9600 and MDM9615 LTE baseband chips.

The most recent architecture version is v6.0.

Tools

  • llvm has support for compiling C / C++ / assembler code for the hexagon CPU.
  • codeaurora has a GCC and binutils port which can compile and disassemble hexagon code.
  • A processor module for IDA can be found on github.

Documentation

  • qualcomm has documentation freely available to registered users for the 'v2' - 'v5' architectures. See 'tools and resources'
  • wikipedia article
  • presentation about how hexagon support was added to llvm