Hexagon DSP

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Hexagon DSP

Hexagon, als 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.

Unfortunately IDA does not have support for the Hexagon CPU yet.

documentation

  • qualcomm has some documentation freely available to registered users about the 'v2' architecture.
  • wikipedia article
  • presentation about how hexagon support was added to llvm