ADSP-SC59x/2159x SHARC Series Doubles Portfolio Performance, Enabling Platforms for Complex Audio Applications

Reaching speeds of up to 1 GHz, the ADSP-SC598/SC596/SC595 processors are members of the ADSP-SC59x SHARC^® family of products. Containing the same dual-SHARC+^® DSP core architecture as the ADSP-SC594/SC592/SC591, these processors upgrade the integrated Arm core to a Cortex-A55 running at up to 1.2 GHz. The A55 processor, with FPU and Neon^® DSP extensions, handles additional real-time processing tasks and manages peripherals used to interface to time-critical data in audio applications. These interfaces include Gigabit Ethernet, USB High-Speed, CAN FD, and a rich variety of other connectivity options for a flexible and simplified system design.

The ADSP-SC59x SHARC processors are members of the SIMD SHARC family of digital signal processors (DSPs) that feature Analog Devices, Inc., Super Harvard Architecture. These 32-bit/40-bit/64-bit floating-point processors are optimized for high performance audio/floating-point applications with large on-chip static random-access memory (SRAM), multiple internal buses that eliminate input/output (I/O) bottlenecks, and innovative digital audio interfaces (DAI). New additions to the SHARC+ core include cache enhancements and branch prediction, while maintaining instruction set compatibility to previous SHARC products.

By integrating a rich set of industry-leading system peripherals and memory (see Table 1 in the data sheet), the SHARC+ processor is the platform of choice for applications that require programmability similar to reduced instruction set computing (RISC), multimedia support, and leading edge signal processing in one integrated package. These applications span a wide array of markets, including automotive, professional audio, and industrial-based applications that require high floating-point performance.

Applications

• Automotive:
  • audio amplifier, head unit, ANC/RNC, rear seat entertainment, digital cockpit, ADAS
• Consumer & Professional Audio:
  
  • speakers, sound bars, AVRs, conferencing systems, mixing consoles, microphone arrays, headphones

Reaching speeds of up to 1 GHz, the ADSP-SC598/SC596/SC595 processors are members of the ADSP-SC59x SHARC^® family of products. Containing the same dual-SHARC+^® DSP core architecture as the ADSP-SC594/SC592/SC591, these processors upgrade the integrated Arm core to a Cortex-A55 running at up to 1.2 GHz. The A55 processor, with FPU and Neon^® DSP extensions, handles additional real-time processing tasks and manages peripherals used to interface to time-critical data in audio applications. These interfaces include Gigabit Ethernet, USB High-Speed, CAN FD, and a rich variety of other connectivity options for a flexible and simplified system design.

The ADSP-SC59x SHARC processors are members of the SIMD SHARC family of digital signal processors (DSPs) that feature Analog Devices, Inc., Super Harvard Architecture. These 32-bit/40-bit/64-bit floating-point processors are optimized for high performance audio/floating-point applications with large on-chip static random-access memory (SRAM), multiple internal buses that eliminate input/output (I/O) bottlenecks, and innovative digital audio interfaces (DAI). New additions to the SHARC+ core include cache enhancements and branch prediction, while maintaining instruction set compatibility to previous SHARC products.

By integrating a rich set of industry-leading system peripherals and memory (see Table 1 in the data sheet), the SHARC+ processor is the platform of choice for applications that require programmability similar to reduced instruction set computing (RISC), multimedia support, and leading edge signal processing in one integrated package. These applications span a wide array of markets, including automotive, professional audio, and industrial-based applications that require high floating-point performance.

Applications

• Automotive:
  • audio amplifier, head unit, ANC/RNC, rear seat entertainment, digital cockpit, ADAS
• Consumer & Professional Audio:
  • speakers, sound bars, AVRs, conferencing systems, mixing consoles, microphone arrays, headphones

Reaching speeds of up to 1 GHz, the ADSP-SC59x processors are members of the SHARC^® family of products. The ADSP-SC59x processor is a dual-SHARC+^® core DSP that doubles the audio performance of its single-SHARC+ core ADSP-2156x predecessor and adds an integrated Arm Cortex-A5 core, also running at up to 1 GHz. The A5 processor, with FPU and Neon^® DSP extensions, handles additional real-time processing tasks and manages peripherals used to interface to time-critical data in audio applications. These interfaces include Gigabit Ethernet, USB High-Speed, CAN FD, and a rich variety of other connectivity options for a flexible and simplified system design.

The ADSP-SC59x SHARC processors are members of the SIMD SHARC family of digital signal processors (DSPs) that feature Analog Devices, Inc., Super Harvard Architecture. These 32-bit/40-bit/64-bit floating-point processors are optimized for high performance audio/floating-point applications with large on-chip static random-access memory (SRAM), multiple internal buses that eliminate input/output (I/O) bottlenecks, and innovative digital audio interfaces (DAI). New additions to the SHARC+ core include cache enhancements and branch prediction, while maintaining instruction set compatibility to previous SHARC products.

By integrating a rich set of industry-leading system peripherals and memory (see Table 1 in the data sheet), the SHARC+ processor is the platform of choice for applications that require programmability similar to reduced instruction set computing (RISC), multimedia support, and leading edge signal processing in one integrated package. These applications span a wide array of markets, including automotive, professional audio, and industrial-based applications that require high floating-point performance.

Applications

• Automotive:
  • audio amplifier, head unit, ANC/RNC, rear seat entertainment, digital cockpit, ADAS
• Consumer & Professional Audio:
  • speakers, sound bars, AVRs, conferencing systems, mixing consoles, microphone arrays, headphones

Reaching speeds of up to 1 GHz, the ADSP-SC59x processors are members of the SHARC^® family of products. The ADSP-SC59x processor is a dual-SHARC+^® core DSP that doubles the audio performance of its single-SHARC+ core ADSP-2156x predecessor and adds an integrated Arm Cortex-A5 core, also running at up to 1 GHz. The A5 processor, with FPU and Neon® DSP extensions, handles additional real-time processing tasks and manages peripherals used to interface to time-critical data in audio applications. These interfaces include Gigabit Ethernet, USB High-Speed, CAN FD, and a rich variety of other connectivity options for a flexible and simplified system design.

The ADSP-SC59x SHARC processors are members of the SIMD SHARC family of digital signal processors (DSPs) that feature Analog Devices, Inc., Super Harvard Architecture. These 32-bit/40-bit/64-bit floating-point processors are optimized for high performance audio/floating-point applications with large on-chip static random-access memory (SRAM), multiple internal buses that eliminate input/output (I/O) bottlenecks, and innovative digital audio interfaces (DAI). New additions to the SHARC+ core include cache enhancements and branch prediction, while maintaining instruction set compatibility to previous SHARC products.

By integrating a rich set of industry-leading system peripherals and memory (see Table 1 in the data sheet), the SHARC+ processor is the platform of choice for applications that require programmability similar to reduced instruction set computing (RISC), multimedia support, and leading edge signal processing in one integrated package. These applications span a wide array of markets, including automotive, professional audio, and industrial-based applications that require high floating-point performance.

Applications

• Automotive:
  • audio amplifier, head unit, ANC/RNC, rear seat entertainment, digital cockpit, ADAS
• Consumer & Professional Audio:
  • speakers, sound bars, AVRs, conferencing systems, mixing consoles, microphone arrays, headphones

Reaching speeds of up to 1 GHz, the ADSP-2159x processors are members of the SHARC^® family of products. The ADSP-2159x processor is a dual-SHARC+^® core DSP that doubles the audio performance of its single-SHARC+ core ADSP-2156x.

The ADSP-2159x SHARC processors are members of the SIMD SHARC family of digital signal processors (DSPs) that feature Analog Devices, Inc., Super Harvard Architecture. These 32-bit/40-bit/64-bit floating-point processors are optimized for high performance audio/floating-point applications with large on-chip static random-access memory (SRAM), multiple internal buses that eliminate input/output (I/O) bottlenecks, and innovative digital audio interfaces (DAI). New additions to the SHARC+ core include cache enhancements and branch prediction, while maintaining instruction set compatibility to previous SHARC products.

By integrating a rich set of industry-leading system peripherals and memory (see Table 1 in the data sheet), the SHARC+ processor is the platform of choice for applications that require programmability similar to reduced instruction set computing (RISC), multimedia support, and leading edge signal processing in one integrated package. These applications span a wide array of markets, including automotive, professional audio, and industrial-based applications that require high floating-point performance.

Applications

• Automotive:
  • audio amplifier, head unit, ANC/RNC, rear seat entertainment, digital cockpit, ADAS
• Consumer & Professional Audio:
  • speakers, sound bars, AVRs, conferencing systems, mixing consoles, microphone arrays, headphones

Reaching speeds of up to 1 GHz, the ADSP-2159x processors are members of the SHARC^® family of products. The ADSP-2159x processor is a dual-SHARC+^® core DSP that doubles the audio performance of its single-SHARC+ core ADSP-2156x predecessor while maintaining pin-compatibility to it in the BGA package, providing design scalability from 400 MHz (ADSP-21566) to 2 GHz (ADSP-21593).

The ADSP-2159x SHARC processors are members of the SIMD SHARC family of digital signal processors (DSPs) that feature Analog Devices, Inc., Super Harvard Architecture. These 32-bit/40-bit/64-bit floating-point processors are optimized for high performance audio/floating-point applications with large on-chip static random-access memory (SRAM), multiple internal buses that eliminate input/output (I/O) bottlenecks, and innovative digital audio interfaces (DAI). New additions to the SHARC+ core include cache enhancements and branch prediction, while maintaining instruction set compatibility to previous SHARC products.

By integrating a rich set of industry-leading system peripherals and memory (see Table 1 in the data sheet), the SHARC+ processor is the platform of choice for applications that require programmability similar to reduced instruction set computing (RISC), multimedia support, and leading edge signal processing in one integrated package. These applications span a wide array of markets, including automotive, professional audio, and industrial-based applications that require high floating-point performance.

Applications

• Automotive:
  • audio amplifier, head unit, ANC/RNC, rear seat entertainment, digital cockpit, ADAS
• Consumer & Professional Audio:
  • speakers, sound bars, AVRs, conferencing systems, mixing consoles, microphone arrays, headphones

CrossCore Embedded Studio is a world-class integrated development environment (IDE) for the Analog Devices Blackfin^®, SHARC^® and Arm^® processor families. Employing the latest generation of our mature code generations tools, this Eclipse^™ based IDE provides seamless, intuitive C/C++ and assembly language editing, code-gen, and debug support.

CrossCore Embedded Studio also offers Blackfin and SHARC developers highly integrated add-in support for drivers, services, and algorithmic software modules. These include driver support for on chip and off chip peripherals, stacks for Ethernet and USB, a popular real time operating system and file system, and more. It provides an easy to use development framework which includes exceptional integrated multicore development and debug support.

FreeRTOS is a free, scalable real-time operating system. This product supports for the Analog Devices ADSP-BF7xx, ADSP-215xx and ADSP-SC5xx (ARM Cortex-A5, ARM Cortex-A55 and SHARC+ cores) processor families.

FreeRTOS is a low memory operating system developed for embedded systems. It supports many common operating system concepts such as timers, events, mutexes, semaphores tasks and semaphores; all of which can be created dynamically or statically. It has a scheduler which can be configured to be preemptive or co-operative, with optional time slicing.

FreeRTOS is royalty free and is provided with non-GPL licensing.

FreeRTOS for Analog Devices Processors is supported by the CrossCore Embedded Studio development environment.

FreeRTOS for Analog Devices Processors is available as source from GitHub, or via an Add-In for CrossCore Embedded Studio which simplifies creation and configuration.

HCC Embedded's FAT from Tuxera can interface with any type of sector-based media. Typically, this might be an SD/MMC card, Compact Flash card, or USB pen drive, but it can be any device that is arranged as an array of logical sectors.

Please visit Tuxera's HCC Embedded FAT page for more details and the demonstration projects for ADSP-SC573, ADSP-SC589, ADSP-SC594, and ADSP-SC598 page to find free demonstration projects for the ADSP-SC57x, ADSP-SC58x, and ADSP-SC59x processors.

An innovative approach to design has resulted in a TCP/IP stack with an extremely high-speed data transfer rate, with minimal system resource requirements. Tests have shown that packet processing runs up to four times faster than comparable embedded stacks, while using around 14 KB of ROM, in a typical application scenario.­

RAM requirements can vary widely depending on application needs but are typically as low as 12kB. It is possible, with a minimum configuration UDP application, to use less than 5kB of ROM and a few hundred bytes of RAM (plus network buffers).

Please visit Tuxera's HCC Embedded Networking Page for more details and the demonstration projects for ADSP-SC573, ADSP-SC589, ADSP-SC594, and ADSP-SC598 page to find free demonstration projects for the ADSP-SC57x, ADSP-SC58x, and ADSP-SC59x processors

The USB Host stack is scalable. It includes many host class drivers that enable an embedded host to control a variety of USB devices including pen-drives, printers, audio devices, joysticks, virtual serial ports and network interfaces. It supports EHCI, OHCI, and non-standard USB host controllers.

The USB Device stack allows developers to integrate USB device functionality into their embedded devices. It includes many device class drivers that give the device functional possibilities, including operating as a pen-drive, virtual serial port, joystick, audio system or a network card.

HCC Embedded also provides a full software OTG Stack that supports the SRP and HNP protocols to negotiate between two connected devices in order to decide which of them operates as the host.

Please visit Tuxera's HCC Embedded USB Overview page for more details and the demonstration projects for ADSP-SC573, ADSP-SC589, ADSP-SC594, and ADSP-SC598 page to find free demonstration projects for the ADSP-SC57x, ADSP-SC58x, and ADSP-SC59x processors.

The EV-SOMCRR-EZKIT carrier board enables users to plug-n-play with any of ADI’s System-on-Module (SoM) boards (e.g., EV-21569-SOM). It allows users to evaluate the most common peripherals and interfaces featured on ADI’s SHARC+ audio processors (e.g., Audio, Ethernet, MLB, USB, CAN, etc.) and features an on-board ICE emulator to provide additional cost savings by eliminating the need for an external emulator. Finally, the EV-SOMCRR-EZKIT carrier board also provides a connection to external A²B boards to allow for easy application expandability of customers’ systems.

When attached to a supported SOM board, the EV-SOMCRR-EZKIT carrier board utilizes the CrossCore^® Embedded Studio (CCES) development tools to enable developers to achieve faster time to market. The development environment aids advanced application code development and debug, such as:

• Create, compile, assemble, and link application programs written in C++, C, and assembly
• Load, run, step, halt, and set breakpoints in application programs
• Read and write data and program memory
• Read and write core and peripheral registers

The EV-SC598-SOM enables evaluation and rapid prototyping of designs featuring the ADSP-SC59x Family (ADSP-SC596/ADSP-SC598) of SHARC audio processors. It provides an easy-to-use plug-n-play reference design with expansion capabilities to interface to custom hardware ahead of the release of the processor itself. When the EV-SC598-SOM board is plugged into the EV-SOMCRR-EZKIT or EV-SOMCRR-EZLITE carrier board, the resulting EZ-KIT^® evaluation system can be used for fast and easy evaluation of the processor core and system peripherals/interfaces.

The EV-SC598-SOM enables rapid prototyping for a wide range of applications, including immersive 3D sound and personal audio zones (PAZ), automotive active and road noise cancellation (ANC/RNC), voice-based user-interfaces and in-car communications (ICC), engine sound synthesis (ESS) and electric vehicle warning sound systems (EVWSS/AVAS). Additional applications include professional audio and soundbars / home AVRs (with 3D Object and Multi-Channel Audio) and enhanced conferencing systems. ADI offers several software modules (e.g., AEC/NR, microphone beamforming, pitch shifting, harmonic generators, wave players etc.), as well as complete software solutions that can be licensed, where users can develop/evaluate their audio and voice processing applications. ADI also offers 3rd party surround sound solutions that can be licensed on ADI’s SHARC processor families. Please visit ADI’s Software Solutions page for more information. 

The EV-SC598-SOM module utilizes the CrossCore^® Embedded Studio (CCES) development tools to enable developers to achieve faster time to market. The development environment aids advanced application code development and debug, such as:

• Create, compile, assemble, and link application programs written in C++, C, and assembly
• Load, run, step, halt, and set breakpoints in application programs
• Read and write data and program memory
• Read and write core and peripheral registers

The EV-SC594-SOM enables evaluation and rapid prototyping of designs featuring the ADSP-SC59x Family (ADSP-SC592/ADSP-SC594) of SHARC audio processors. It provides an easy-to-use plug-n-play reference design with expansion capabilities to interface to custom hardware ahead of the release of the processor itself. When the EV-SC594-SOM board is plugged into the EV-SOMCRR-EZKIT or EV-SOMCRR-EZLITE carrier board, the resulting EZ-KIT^® evaluation system can be used for fast and easy evaluation of the processor core and system peripherals/interfaces.

The EV-SC594-SOM enables rapid prototyping for a wide range of applications, including immersive 3D sound and personal audio zones (PAZ), automotive active and road noise cancellation (ANC/RNC), voice-based user-interfaces and in-car communications (ICC), engine sound synthesis (ESS) and electric vehicle warning sound systems (EVWSS/AVAS). Additional applications include professional audio and soundbars / home AVRs (with 3D Object and Multi-Channel Audio) and enhanced conferencing systems. ADI offers several software modules (e.g., AEC/NR, microphone beamforming, pitch shifting, harmonic generators, wave players etc.), as well as complete software solutions that can be licensed, where users can develop/evaluate their audio and voice processing applications. ADI also offers 3rd party surround sound solutions that can be licensed on ADI’s SHARC processor families. Please visit ADI’s Software Solutions page for more information.

The EV-SC594-SOM module utilizes the CrossCore^® Embedded Studio (CCES) development tools to enable developers to achieve faster time to market. The development environment aids advanced application code development and debug, such as:

• Create, compile, assemble, and link application programs written in C++, C, and assembly
• Load, run, step, halt, and set breakpoints in application programs
• Read and write data and program memory
• Read and write core and peripheral registers

The EV-21593-SOM enables evaluation and rapid prototyping of designs featuring the ADSP-21593 SHARC audio processor. It provides an easy-to-use plug-n-play reference design with expansion capabilities to interface to custom hardware ahead of the release of the processor itself. When the EV-21593-SOM board is plugged into the EV-SOMCRR-EZKIT or EV-SOMCRR-EZLITE carrier board, the resulting EZ-KIT^® evaluation system can be used for fast and easy evaluation of the processor core and system peripherals/interfaces.

The EV-21593-SOM enables rapid prototyping for a wide range of applications, including immersive 3D sound and personal audio zones (PAZ), automotive active and road noise cancellation (ANC/RNC), voice-based user-interfaces and in-car communications (ICC), engine sound synthesis (ESS) and electric vehicle warning sound systems (EVWSS/AVAS). Additional applications include professional audio and soundbars / home AVRs (with 3D Object and Multi-Channel Audio) and enhanced conferencing systems. ADI offers several software modules (e.g., AEC/NR, microphone beamforming, pitch shifting, harmonic generators, wave players etc.), as well as complete software solutions that can be licensed, where users can develop/evaluate their audio and voice processing applications. ADI also offers 3rd party surround sound solutions that can be licensed on ADI’s SHARC processor families. Please visit ADI’s Software Solutions page for more information.

The EV-21593-SOM module utilizes the CrossCore^® Embedded Studio (CCES) development tools to enable developers to achieve faster time to market. The development environment aids advanced application code development and debug, such as:

• Create, compile, assemble, and link application programs written in C++, C, and assembly
• Load, run, step, halt, and set breakpoints in application programs
• Read and write data and program memory
• Read and write core and peripheral registers