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ADI Blackfin

Analog Devices Blackfin is a leading DSP processor. ADI offer a range of products to meet the needs of a broad set of OEM developers for:

  • automotive
  • aerospace and military
  • consumer
  • communications
  • and motor control.

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    The Analog Devices Blackfin is the only processor offered by ADI which offers both high performance and excellent price performance. The combination of 32 bit processing pipelines with multiple high performance multipliers and ALUs gives the Blackfin exceptional performance it needs to excel in many embedded applications using fixed point. The architecturally tuned solutions provide the simplicity required by many OEMs because the peripherals are ideal for their application.

    Analog Devices Blackfin could have complete Unison RTOS support; however, the port is not complete today. Many users use the uCLinux port that is available, but if you want to squeeze memory size and cost for volume applications, Unison offers an order of magnitude smaller option. This ultra tiny embedded Linux support would optionally include:

    • System on a chip (SoC) within architectural limitations.
    • Single process, multiple thread Posix kernel
    • DSP libraries
    • Complete Posix I/O solutions with ATAPI, TCP/IP, USB, and more
    • Debugging and downloading support
    • Host simulation support
    • Training
    • Support
    • And development support.

    DSPnano offers the best of DSP development while maintaining a hardware independent solution.

     

    Analog Devices Blackfin applications often involve multicore, multiprocessing and distributed processing. RoweBots Unisno provides support for rich architectural configurations, including those which are used on a variety of board level products from major vendors. Unison completely supports these approaches by providing distributed, shared memory multicore and shared memory multicore/multiprocessor solutions.

    Mixed or heterogeneous processing is also possible. Adding other types of heterogeneous processors is an ideal solution to many of the problems encountered developing systems because the best processor for the job at hand can be selected. Unison offers completely heterogeneous processing to match these capabilities offered by the Analog Devices Blackfin. A good example of this type of optimization is using advanced Coldfire communications processors mixed with Blackfin units for DSP to balance the application.