News
	Date Posted:	27/10/2008
	Title:	New Blackfin Processors Offer Cheaper, Lower Power Solutions ( 1246)
	Summary	Blackfin BF51x series maintains family’s focus on driving system-level reductions in cost, power consumption, complexity, and time-to-market
	Main Text	Analog Devices has unveiled the Blackfin® BF51x series, the newest members of the signal processing pioneer’s convergent-processor family. The new offerings continue to demonstrate the superior ability of the Blackfin convergent-processor architecture to reduce cost, power consumption, software complexity, and development schedules in a broad spectrum of mobile lifestyle, industrial and instrumentation, portable medical diagnostic and VoIP telephony applications. For additional information, please visit www.analog.com/BF51x . For the most up-to-date news, follow Blackfin at http://twitter.com/Blackfin. The new Blackfin processors are the BF512, BF514, BF516 and BF518. All are single-core convergent processors that surpass outdated, heterogenous MCU+DSP approaches in reducing part-count, system cost, board space, and power consumption. Like traditional DSPs, the BF51x processors feature high clock rates and low power dissipation per unit of processing (MMACs/mW), and like traditional MCUs, these convergent processors are OS and compiler-friendly.