June 18, 2015 – Analog Devices (www.analog.com, NASDAQ: ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, has announced eight new SHARC® processors that will be added to its power-efficient, high-performance real-time product family. The newly released products feature two enhanced SHARC+® cores and advanced DSP accelerators (FFT, FIR, IIR) capable of delivering up to 24 giga-floating-point operations per second at peak performance. The ADSP-SC58x and ADSP-2158x series consume less than 2W of power at high temperatures, achieving power efficiency 5 times higher than the previous SHARC product line and 2 times higher compared to competing equivalent processors. These advantages deliver industry-leading digital signal processing performance required by products that limit power consumption for thermal management or where reliability is more critical than cost. Such applications include automotive, consumer and professional audio, multi-axis motor control, and energy distribution systems. More details can be found in the following video: http://analog.com/ADSP-SC58xVideo

The ADSP-SC58x product features SHARC+ cores and DSP accelerators along with ARM® Cortex-A5 processors, FPU, and Neon® DSP extensions to handle additional real-time processing tasks and manage peripherals used for time-critical audio data, industrial closed-loop control, and industrial sensing application connectivity. Gigabit Ethernet (AVB and IEEE-1588 support), high-speed USB wireless storage (including SD/SDIO), PCI Express, and various other connectivity options for flexible and simplified system design are provided as interfaces.

The ADSP-2158x product family is comprised of products without ARM Cortex-A5 cores and is designed for applications that typically require DSP co-processors. This includes two SHARC+ cores, DSP accelerators, and a range of peripherals tailored to the cores.

As industry concerns regarding software intellectual property (IP) protection increase, ARM® TrustZone® security and on-board cryptographic hardware accelerators are also included. In applications where reliability is a critical requirement, memory parity and error correction hardware have been added to enhance data integrity.

The comprehensive integration and low-power characteristics provided by the new ADSP-SC58x and ADSP-2158x series significantly reduce BOM and board area, simplify design, and shorten time-to-market in today's complex application landscape.

Supported by ADI's CrossCore® Embedded Studio

The ADSP-SC58x/2158x is supported by ADI's award-winning CrossCore® Embedded Studio development tool, enabling design engineers to optimize design and time-to-market using real-time interactive development tools.

Additionally, through collaboration with Micrium, ADI provides µC/OS-II® and µC/OS-III® real-time kernels on both SHARC+ and ARM Cortex-A5 cores, as well as Micrium's USB host, USB device, and file system stack running on ARM Cortex-A5.

Furthermore, ADI provides a Linux Add-In for CrossCore® Studio, enabling customers to leverage communication stacks and applications available in embedded Linux running on ARM Cortex-A5 cores.

The ADSP-SC58x EZ-KIT-Lite development board and ICE-1000/2000 emulator enable development, testing, and debugging of advanced applications.

Pricing, Evaluation Boards, and Product Sample Availability

Product samples are currently available for purchase with complete development tools. Various configuration options are available including the number of SHARC+ cores (one or two), presence of ARM Cortex-A5 core, diverse peripheral configurations, and 19mm × 19mm BGA package (one of two). Pricing for this product family starts at $17 in quantities of 10,000. The ADSP-SC589 EZ-KIT-Lite is offered at a special promotional price of $495, including the ICE-1000 emulator and CrossCore Embedded Studio license for a limited time.

More detailed information is available through the following links.

-Sample orders and downloads of ADSP-SC58x and ADSP-2158x datasheets, reference designs, and other technical documentation: www.analog.com/SC58x

-Exchange processor and DSP information with engineers and ADI product experts on ADI's online technical support community EngineerZoneTM: ez.analog.com/community/dsp

-Detailed information on CrossCore Embedded Studio and related add-in extensions is available at www.analog.com/cces.