ADSP-BF561 EZ-KIT Lite Evaluation System Manual
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PREFACE
Thank you for purchasing the ADSP-BF561 EZ-KIT Lite
®
, Analog
Devices, Inc. evaluation system for 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 evaluation board is designed to be used in conjunction with the Visu-
alDSP++
®
development environment to test the capabilities of the
ADSP-BF561 Blackfin processors. The Vi+ development envi-
ronment gives you the ability to perform advanced application code
development and debug, such as:
• Create, compile, assemble, and link application programs written
in C++, C and ADSP-BF561 assembly
• Load, run, step, halt, and set breakpoints in application program
• Read and write data and program memory
• Read and write core and peripheral registers
• Plot memory
Access to the ADSP-BF561 processor from a personal computer (PC) is
achieved through a USB port or an optional JTAG emulator. The USB
interface gives unrestricted access to the ADSP-BF561 processor and the
evaluation board peripherals. Analog Devices JTAG emulators offer faster