ADSP-BF538F EZ-KIT Lite Evaluation System Manual ix
PREFACEThank you for purchasing the ADSP-BF538F EZ-KIT Lite®, Analog
Devices, Inc. evaluation system for Blackfin® processors.
Blackfin processors embody a new type of embedded processor designed
specifically to meet the computational demands and power constraints of
today’s embedded audio, video, and communications applications. They
deliver breakthrough signal-processing performance and power efficiency
within a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) programming model.
Blackfin processors support a media instruction set computing (MISC)
architecture. This architecture is the natural merging of RISC, media
functions, and digital signal processing (DSP) characteristics. Blackfin
processors deliver signal-processing performance in a microprocessor-like
environment.
Based on the Micro Signal Architecture (MSA), Blackfin processors com-
bine a 32-bit RISC instruction set, dual 16-bit multiply accumulate
(MAC) DSP functionality, and 8-bit video processing performance that
had previously been the exclusive domain of very-long instruction word
(VLIW) media processors.