Freescale Semiconductor has used its high end SC3850 StarCore DSP core in a family of programmable digital signal processors (DSPs) aimed at applications in the medical, military/aerospace and test markets.

The MSC825x family consists of four pin-compatible, fully programmable, single-, dual-, four- and six-core DSPs.

On-chip peripherals include multiple DDR controllers, two Serial RapidIO interfaces and a PCI Express interface.

Use of the SC3850 means designs can scale from a single-core device to multicore devices, or to create multiple products based on the same hardware.