Digital Signal Processors - Motorola 56000, Digital Signal Processor, Motorola 96000, Blackfin, Texas Instruments Omap, Texas Instruments Tms320 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 21. Chapters: Motorola 56000, Digital signal processor, Motorola 96000, Blackfin, Texas Instruments OMAP, Texas Instruments TMS320, Asynchronous array of simple processors, SigmaTel, Texas Instruments DaVinci, Infineon TriCore, Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer, Ittiam Systems, Sega Virtua Processor, ST200 family, PicoChip, Texas Instruments TMS320C6400, Media processor, Xilleon, Hanxin, MDSP, BSMT2000, Jazz DSP, NEC uPD7720, FX8010, MPACT 2, TigerSHARC. Excerpt: The Blackfin is a family of 16- or 32-bit microprocessors developed, manufactured and marketed by Analog Devices. The family is characterized by their built-in, fixed-point digital signal processor (DSP) functionality supplied by 16-bit Multiply-accumulates (MACs), accompanied on-chip by a small and power-efficient microcontroller. The result is a low-power, unified processor architecture that can run operating systems while simultaneously handling complex numeric tasks such as real-time H.264 video encoding. There are several hardware development kits for the Blackfin. Open-source operating systems for the Blackfin include uClinux. Blackfin processors use a 32-bit RISC microcontroller programming model on a SIMD architecture, which was co-developed by Intel and Analog Devices, as MSA (Micro Signal Architecture). The Blackfin processor architecture was announced in December, 2000 and first demonstrated at the Embedded Systems Conference in June, 2001. The Blackfin architecture incorporates aspects of ADI's older SHARC architecture and Intel's XScale architecture into a single core, combining digital signal processing (DSP) and microcontroller functionality. There are many differences in the core architecture between Blackfin/MSA and XScale/ARM or SHARC, but the combination provides improvements in performance, programmability and power consumption over trad...