Hexagon DSP

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 v4.

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 about the 'v2' - 'v5' architectures. See 'tools and resources'
• wikipedia article
• presentation about how hexagon support was added to llvm