Analog Devices Blackfin, Getting Started

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Selecting Hardware Development Tools
2-22 Getting Started With Blackfin Processors
The software modules allow engineers to quickly and easily incorporate
these functions, providing a faster development path to the end product.
In addition, the highly-optimized software modules feature a consistent
API and framework to ensure rapid development of multiple functions.
Selecting Hardware Development Tools
Users acquire a hardware tool to begin testing the application on a Blackfin
processor. Development boards typically provide expansion headers,
allowing you to prototype basic hardware without customized user
hardware.
Hardware development tools include development and evaluation boards
(such as EZ-KIT Lite or STAMP), expansion boards, and JTAG
emulators.
EZ-KIT Lite Evaluation Systems
Typically, development and evaluation boards are standalone printed cir-
cuit boards (PCBs) that contain a Blackfin processor with other devices.
Analog Devices offers an evaluation system, called an EZ-KIT Lite, for
each subfamily of Blackfin processors. Each EZ-KIT Lite includes a board,
cable, power supply, documentation, software, and a license key.
The EZ-KIT Lite board is a low-cost hardware platform that includes a
Blackfin processor surrounded by several other devices such as audio
codecs, video encoders, video decoders, flash, SDRAM, and so on.
Each EZ-KIT Lite board also includes an on-board JTAG emulator with a
USB 2.0 connector and a standard 13-pin, 100-mil, JTAG header for use
with high-performance JTAG emulators available from Analog Devices.
Via the processor’s JTAG port and the Vi+ software, you can set