Analog Devices will move its Blackfin processor to 65nm process technology this year. The firm's high performance Sharc digital signal processors (DSP) are already on a 65nm process with production Blackfins still at 90nm.
According to Rich Murphy, business development manager at ADI, the first Blackfins have already been produced on a 65nm process.
"Blackfins on 65nm will definitely be available this year," said Murphy, speaking at Embedded World which opened in Nuremberg today.
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Murphy also confirmed that a new application specific Blackfin platform was in the product pipeline, which will be aimed at automotive applications.
"There is also a general purpose Blackfin product in the pipeline," said Murphy.
ADI continues to see a strong market for general purpose DSPs despite the definite moves toward application specific platforms.
"We will continue to support both general purpose and applications specific products for Blackfin going forward," said Murphy.
ADI also announced a 60% price discount for its Blackfin development tools.
The specific tools are the Visual DSP++ integrated development environment, which includes a C/C++ compiler as well as the VisualDSP++ kernel.
Richard Wilson, Nuremberg