Preface

Thank you for purchasing the SHARC® USB EZ-Extender®, Analog Devices, Inc. extension board to the EZ-KIT Lite® evaluation systems for ADSP-21262, ADSP-21364, and ADSP-21369 processors.

The SHARC processors are based on a 32-bit super Harvard architecture that includes a unique memory architecture comprised of two large on-chip, dual-ported SRAM blocks coupled with a sophisticated IO pro- cessor, which gives a SHARC processor the bandwidth for sustained high-speed computations. SHARC processors represents today’s de facto standard for floating-point processor targeted for premium audio applications.

The EZ-KIT Lites and SHARC USB EZ-Extender are designed to be used in conjunction with the VisualDSP++® development environment. Visu- alDSP++ offers a powerful programming tool with new flexibility that significantly decreases time required to port software code to a processor, reducing time-to-market.

To learn more about Analog Devices development software, go to

http://www.analog.com/processors/tools/.

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