Micrium Completes First Ports to Analog Devices’ Blackfin Processors

“Micrium components now support nearly 50 architectures, including ARM, Cortex, PowerPC, ColdFire, Blackfin and others. Supporting the Blackfin platform is a major addition to our portfolio, and it demonstrates the growing adoption of our products across the embedded marketplace,” stated Jean Labrosse, president and CEO of Micrium. “The Blackfin processors’ performance - up to 600 MHz - and architecture, with its rich instruction set, make uC/OS-II a great candidate for mixed control and signal processing applications.”

Analog Devices’ Blackfin embodies a new breed of 16/32-bit embedded processor with the industry’s highest performance and power efficiency for applications where a convergence of capabilities multi-format audio, video, voice and image processing; multi-mode baseband and packet processing; and real-time security and control processing are critical. It is this powerful combination of software flexibility and scalability that has gained Blackfin widespread adoption in convergent applications such as digital home entertainment, networked and streaming media, automotive telematics and infotainment, and digital radio and mobile TV.

“Embedded developers value Micrium’s uC/OS-II real time operating system for its small memory footprint, availability of source code for advanced development and royalty free licensing for product deployment,” said Rick Gentile, Applications Engineering Manager in ADI’s GP-DSP Division. “Micrium’s robust suite of embedded software components is a perfect fit with the Blackfin processors’ wide range of integrated peripherals targeting markets from mobile media to high power industrial applications. We work closely with Micrium to ensure the continued compatibility of Micrium and Blackfin products. Our customers that use the Micrium products always remind me that they have one less thing to worry about in their development.”

Micrium’s uC/TCP-IP stack is designed specifically for the demanding requirements of embedded systems and provides superior performance on the Blackfin processors, especially when used with DMA support, as on the BF537. Other application Layer protocols such as uC/DHCP, uC/DNS and uC/FTP are also available from Micrium, and make uC/TCP-IP stack the best choice for network applications on the Blackfin processors. The combination of Micrium products, including uC/OS-II and uC/TCP-IP, along with the uC/Probe monitoring tool, allows users to develop applications in a unified way without encountering compatibility issues.