Blackfin
| Designer | Analog Devices |
|---|---|
| Bits | 32-bit |
| Introduced | 2000 |
| Design | RISC |
| Type | Load–store |
| Encoding | Variable (16- or 32-bit general purpose, or 64-bit parallel issue of 1 × 32-bit instruction + 2 × 16-bit instructions) |
| Branching | Condition code |
| Endianness | Little |
| Registers | |
| General-purpose | 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 |
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| General information | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 2008 |
| Discontinued | Present |
| Marketed by | Analog Devices |
| Designed by | Analog Devices |
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Blackfin is a family of 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 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.