Processor selection

Hi Murugesh,

We have Blackfin family of processor which is fixed point and SHARC which is floating point DSPs, we can provide you a high level information about that and you can choose the suitable one.

The ADSP-BF60X and ADSP-BF70X are the latest processors in Blackfin family. The ADSP-BF60x processors are the Dual-Core processor up to 1GHz with Hardware Support for HD Video Analytic's. The ADSP-BF70x processors are the latest Low Power 400MHz Blackfin+ embedded processor with 1MByte L2 SRAM & DDR2/LPDDR Interface.

You can get more information about Blackfin processors in the below link:
www.analog.com/.../blackfin.html

Analog Devices' SHARC® processor family dominates the floating-point DSP market with exceptional core and memory performance and outstanding I/O throughput. With multiple products variants and price points, SHARC brings real-time floating-point processing performance to many applications where dynamic range is key. Latest products provide leading performance/power efficiency and advanced connectivity with an integrated ARM® core.

The advanced SHARC Family features, Dedicated hardware accelerators (FIR,FFT,IIR etc), Variable Instruction Set Architecture (VISA) support, additional processing element for Single Instruction, Multiple data (SIMD) support making them particularly suitable for high performance audio applications.

We would suggest you to refer the selection tables of SHARC processors, which can be found in the following link.
www.analog.com/.../sharc.html

The ADSP-SC5xx processors are Multicore SHARC+ARM® SOC Delivers 24GFLOPS Performance at Under 2W for Advanced Real-Time Audio and Industrial Applications. You would find more information about these processors in the below link.
www.analog.com/.../adsp-sc58x-adsp-2158x-series.html

The latest ADSP-2156x processors provides enhanced SHARC+ high performance floating-point core up to 1 GHz. The ADSP-2156x series of processors are designed to provide immersive audio and sound experience in automotive and consumer/pro-audio applications.You can find more information about these processors from the below link.
www.analog.com/.../adsp-2156x-family.html

We have Processors Software and Tools page that provides a convenient look-up table to indicate to users what evaluation platforms, extender cards, emulators, software development tools, and middleware are available for the specific processors you have chosen to evaluate for your designs.
SHARC - www.analog.com/.../sharc-processors-software-and-tools.html
BLACKFIN - www.analog.com/.../blackfin-processors-software-and-tools.html

For more details on pricing and availability questions, please contact your nearest ADI sales and distributors. Please find the link given below.
www.analog.com/.../find-sale-office-distributor.html

We have evaluation kits available for different processors which will provide a platform for customer to evaluate our DSPs. When you navigate through our product specific page you would find its evaluation platform with associate.

If you can provide more information on other requirements from the external interfaces, the speed grade, memory requirements, package, which you are looking for, then we can help you narrow down to select the right derivative in processor family.

Regards,
Anand Selvaraj.