Fall 2011—Issue 4
Webcast
Fundamentals of Designing with Semiconductors for Signal processing Applications: DSP and Embedded Processing

This webcast will describe the basics of Digital Signal Processing and DSP architectures, the heart of the signal chain. This session will introduce you to Analog Devices' portfolio of digital processors and how they are used in different market segments and applications. You will also be introduced to ADI's hardware and software tools.

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Avnet Electronics and Analog Devices have partnered to offer a webcast that features the Blackfin BF506F processor for industrial applications. This webinar provides an overview of the value, control and signal processing that this processor and its industrial feature-rich peripheral set capabilities bring to industrial applications. The webcast also features a motor control development platform from Boston Engineering that highlights processor capabilities for motor control. Viewers of the webcast are eligible to purchase a BF506F EZ-Kit for a discounted price of $99 (regularly $195).

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Industry Leading Blackfin® Embedded Processor Now Available for < $2
The ADSP-BF592 Blackfin processor delivers 400 MMAC at 200 MHz core clock speed and is a new price/performance point for a broad range of cost-sensitive applications. Featuring active power draw as low as 51 mW and a tiny 9mm × 9mm 64-lead LFCSP package, the new 200 MHz model makes integrating high performance digital signal processing even more practical for many power and cost-constrained applications in the industrial, healthcare, video, audio and general-purpose markets. The BF592 is in full-production and available for sampling/ordering. Learn more about BF592

$99 Development Platform
An EZ-KIT Lite® evaluation kit for the Blackfin ADSP-BF592 is being offered for a discounted price of $99 (normally $199) until December 31, 2011, available from ADI's authorized distributors. The kit includes an evaluation suite of ADI's VisualDSP++ development environment with the C/C++ compiler, assembler and linker. ADI also offers a $150 Blackfin emulator (ADZS-ICE-100B), which provides designers with a comprehensive development platform that lowers the cost of entry to the Blackfin BF592. In addition, a complementary selection of ADI's power ICs, data converters, sensors and signal conditioning ICs are available for optimizing processor and overall signal-chain performance.

Blackfin® BF50X Series Processors with 400 MHz Core Clock Speed, Extensive Peripheral Sets
The ADSP-BF504, ADSP-BF504F and ADSP-BF506F Blackfin processors with up to 400 MHz (800 MMACS) performance and 68KB L1 Memory are now available from ADI and its distributors. These products are ideally suited to industrial and instrumentation applications, and portable Consumer and Healthcare equipment. They feature low power dissipation, two three-phase PWM units, an ADC Control Module, two SPI's, two SPORT's, a CAN controller, a PPI, eight general purpose counters and a Removable Storage Interface. The BF504 is the low cost entry point into the BF50x family within the Blackfin portfolio of processors. The BF504F adds a 4MB executable flash and the BF506F adds both a 4MB executable flash and a true 12 bit dual SAR ADC with an ENOB of 11+. These products are all supported by the BF506F EZ-KIT Lite evaluation platform. For more information

SHARC and Blackfin Software Modules
Analog Devices provides a wide range of audio and video codecs, encoders, decoders, post processing code and other software modules that can speed development and help evaluate processors. The following modules have been added during the past quarter:
New Software Modules for Blackfin:
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) Decoder. Read for more information
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Format Decoder.
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New Software Modules for SHARC:
DTS-HD Master Audio (DTS-HD MA). Read for more information
DTS Neo:X for SHARC. Read for more information
DTS Surround Sensation. Read for more information
DTS Neo:6 Read for more information
SRS TruVolume® Read for more information
Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3) Read for more information

SHARC Processor Workshops
These workshops teach you how to efficiently design with the ADSP-2136x/37x/4xx SHARC processors. Hands-on training is provided, using the latest VisualDSP++ development tools (with both assembly and C programming languages). Presented by Kaztek Systems' ADI-trained instructors.

Upcoming dates and locations:

• November 15-18, 2011, Norwood, Massachusetts
• January 31 - February 3, 2012, Norwood, Massachusetts
• February 21-24, 2012, Munich, Germany

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Blackfin Processor Workshops
These workshops teach you how to efficiently design with the Blackfin embedded processor. Hands-on training is provided, using the latest VisualDSP++ development tools (with both assembly and C programming languages). Presented by Kaztek Systems' ADI-trained instructors.

Upcoming dates and locations:

• December 13-16, 2011, Munich, Germany
• January 24-27, 2012, Norwood, Massachusetts
• January 28 - February 2, 2012, Munich, Germany

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For more information, please visit our Workshop and Training Programs page.

New ADI DSP Third Party Collaborative Members

Analog Devices Third Party Developers network consists of companies all over the world that provide hardware products, software products, algorithms and design services for a wide variety of applications and markets. Please join us in welcoming the following new members of our DSP Third Party network:

Dexcel Electronics Designs
Digital Voice Systems
DSP Weuffen
DUITEK
Floreat, Inc.
Imagic, Inc.
Masterkey
NEXTXEN
NoViSim Ltd.
 

For more information, please visit our Third Party Developers page.

Unless otherwise noted, products in this enewsletter are production released and available for ordering from ADI and our Distributor partners.
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