ADI (ADI) has launched eight new SHARC processors, which are part of its latest high-performance, energy-efficient, real-time series of products, which use two enhanced SHARC + cores and advanced chips to provide per second Peak performance of over 24 gigabit floating point operations. DSP accelerators (FFT, FIR, IIR).
The ADSP-SC58x and ADSP-2158x series consume less than 2W at high temperatures, which makes the new processor series consume more than 5 times higher power than previous SHARC products, and more than 2 times more efficient than the closest competitor processor . This advantage provides industry-leading digital signal processing performance for applications where thermal management sets power limits or cannot tolerate the higher cost and lower reliability of fans.
Applications include automotive, consumer and professional audio, multi-axis motor control and energy distribution systems.
The ADSP-SC58x product complements the SHARC + core and DSP accelerator by adding ARM Cortex-A5 processors, FPU and Neon DSP extensions to handle other real-time processing tasks and manage peripherals used to interface with time-critical data in audio, industrial Closed-loop control and industrial sensing applications. These interfaces include Gigabit Ethernet (with AVB and IEEE-1588 support), USB high-speed, mobile storage (including SD / SDIO), PCI Express, and a variety of other connection options, enabling flexible and simplified system design.
The ADSP-2158x series does not have an ARM Cortex-A5 core and is designed for applications that usually require DSP coprocessors. It includes two SHARC + cores and a DSP accelerator that matches the peripheral set of these cores.
As software IP protection increasingly attracts industry attention to security, including ARM TrustZone security and onboard encryption hardware accelerators. For applications where reliability is critical, memory parity and error correction hardware can provide higher data integrity.
The new ADSP-SC58x and ADSP-2158x series provide overall integration and low power consumption features that can significantly save BOM and circuit board area, and reduce design complexity and shorten the time to market for today's complex applications.
ADSP-SC58x / 2158x is supported by ADI ’s award-winning CrossCore Embedded Studio development tool suite, providing design engineers with interactive real-time development tools that can help optimize designs and accelerate time-to-market.
In addition, ADI cooperated with Micrium to jointly provide µC / OS-II and µC / OS-III real-time cores on SHARC + and ARM Cortex-A5 cores, as well as Micrium's USB host, USB device and file system running on the platform Stack. ARM Cortex-A5.
ADI also provides a Linux plug-in for CrossCore Embedded Studio to interested customers who are interested in using the embedded Linux communication stack and application packages running on the ARM Cortex-A5 core.
The company stated that the ADSP-SC58x EZ-KIT-Lite development board and ICE-1000 / 2000 emulator can facilitate the creation, testing and debugging of advanced applications.
