Board provides platform for Blackfin development

The Momentum Data Systems Eagle-35 board is a stand-alone evaluation, hardware and software prototyping environment for the Analog Devices ADSP-21535 Blackfin DSP.

The Eagle-35 board is a stand-alone platform that provides a general-purpose fully functional evaluation, OEM hardware or software prototyping environment for the Analog Devices ADSP-21535 Blackfin DSP.

The 300MHz, 600 MMAC performance of the ADSP-21535 DSP integrates a large set of on-chip peripherals with the high-performance DSP core jointly developed by Intel and Analog Devices.

The Eagle-35 provides a unique solution to a typical problem faced by DSP developers - the lack of access to a development platform with the correct I/O until a custom hardware design is built and tested.

The Eagle-35, based on the Analog Devices ADS-21535 Blackfin DSP, solves this problem by providing four standard PCI slots, allowing the use of any of the thousands of off the shelf peripheral cards.

This in turn allows system and software developers to emulate their final system without needing to wait for custom hardware designs.

The Eagle-35 platform conforms to the mini-ATX motherboard form factor to allow it to be used as a PCI platform in a standard PC chassis.

The Blackfin DSP provides a rich hardware and software environment for application development across a wide range of products.

Momentum Data Systems' makes the Eagle-35 the perfect hardware platform by adding built in Ethernet for quickly developing Blackfin DSP based networked applications.

TCP/IP stacks for the Eagle-35 are available as part of wide range of real time operating system (RTOS) offerings from companies such as Accelerated Technology, DSPOS, Lineo and WindRiver.

The Eagle-35 offers both a boot Flash (544Kbyte) and a large NAND data Flash (16Mbyte) to emulate memory configurations found in many embedded applications that the Blackfin supports.

Offering both Ethernet and USB ports, the Eagle 35 can serve as a development platform across a wide range of end-user applications such as USB based PC peripherals (printers, cameras etc), video processing and security systems, network based smart handheld devices, screen phones, VoIP, modems, embedded industrial controllers, to name just a few.

MDS also offers customised versions of the Eagle-35 for companies looking to reduce their time to market by licensing existing designs.

The ability to start software development immediately by using the Eagle-35 in conjunction with off-the-shelf PCI cards, combined with MDS' ability to quickly deliver customised hardware designs can reduce product development time and cost and allow companies to focus on their value-added design content.

The Eagle-35 is shipping now and prices start at around GBP 1400 for a stand-alone board and GBP 6800 for a complete development system.

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