Blackfin

Blackfin is a family of hybrid 16/32-bit microprocessors developed, manufactured and marketed by Analog Devices. The processors have built-in, fixed-point digital signal processor (DSP) functionality performed by 16-bit multiply–accumulates (MACs), accompanied on-chip by a 32-bit microcontroller. It was designed for a unified low-power processor architecture that can run operating systems while simultaneously handling complex numeric tasks such as real-time H.264 video encoding.

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CPU architecture.encoding: Variable (16- or 32-bit general purpose, or 64-bit parallel issue of 1 × 32-bit instruction + 2 × 16-bit instructions)
CPU architecture.branching: Condition code
CPU architecture.endianness: Little
CPU architecture.gpr: 8 × 32-bit data registers (addressable as 16 × 16-bit half-registers), 2 × 40-bit accumulators, 6 × 32-bit address registers, stack pointer, frame pointer
CPU.name: Blackfin
CPU.image: blackfin-processor-logo.png
CPU.image_size: 180px
CPU.caption: ADI Blackfin Logo
CPU.produced start: 2008
CPU.produced end: Present
CPU.soldby: Analog Devices
CPU.designfirm: Analog Devices
CPU.manuf1: Analog Devices
CPU architecture.name: Blackfin
CPU architecture.designer: Analog Devices
CPU architecture.bits: 32-bit
CPU architecture.design: RISC
CPU architecture.type: Load–store

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Architecture details
Architecture features
Core features
Memory and DMA
Microcontroller features
Media-processing features
Peripherals
Development tools
Supported operating systems, RTOSs and kernels
See also
References
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==Architecture details== Blackfin processors use a 32-bit RISC microcontroller programming model on a SIMD architecture, which was co-developed by Intel and Analog Devices, as MSA (Micro Signal Architecture).