Datasheet

Blackfin EZ-Extender Manual vii
PREFACE
Thank you for purchasing the Blackfin EZ-Extender
®
, Analog Devices
(ADI) extender board to the EZ-KIT Lite
®
evaluation system for
ADSP-BF533 and ADSP-BF561 Blackfin
®
processors.
The Blackfin processors are embedded processors that support a Media
Instruction Set Computing (MISC) architecture. This architecture is the
natural merging of RISC, media functions, and digital signal processing
(DSP) characteristics towards delivering signal processing performance in
a microprocessor-like environment.
The Blackfin EZ-Extender is designed to be used in conjunction with the
ADSP-BF533 or ADSP-BF561 EZ-KIT Lite evaluation system. The
EZ-KIT Lite includes an evaluation suite of VisualDSP++
®
software,
which is limited in program memory size for use solely with the EZ-KIT
Lite product. VisualDSP++ is a powerful programming tool with flexibil-
ity that significantly decreases the 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/dsp/tools/.
Example programs are available to demonstrate the capabilities of the
Blackfin EZ-Extender board.
The Blackfin EZ-Extender is a separately sold assembly that plugs onto
the expansion interface of the ADSP-BF533 and ADSP-BF561 EZ-KIT
Lite evaluation system.