Analog Devices today introduced the Blackfin ADSP-BF592 digital signal processor (DSP) with 800 MMACs/400MHz of performance for $3 (in 10K quantities). Featuring an active power draw said to be as low as 88 mW at 300MHz (and standby power of less than 1mW) the DSP comes in a 9 mm x 9 mm 64-lead LFCSP package, making it suitable for power-constrained, small form-factor compute-intensive applications that operate without the need for external memory or executable flash.
The ADSP-BF592 is the low cost entry point into the Blackfin portfolio of processors. It has a peripheral set including two serial ports (SPORT’s), a PPI, two SPI’s, four general-purpose counters and a factory-programmed instruction ROM block containing the VDK RTOS and C-runtime libraries.
An EZ-KIT Lite
evaluation kit for the Blackfin BF592 is available for $199, and includes an evaluation suite of ADI’s VisualDSP++ development environment with the C/C++ compiler, assembler and linker.
evaluation kit for the Blackfin BF592 is available for $199, and includes an evaluation suite of ADI’s VisualDSP++ development environment with the C/C++ compiler, assembler and linker.