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Considering the ADSP-21262 SHARC® DSP

Contributed by G. Linden September 25, 2003

Introduction

The ADSP-21262 DSP is the latest
member of the SHARC® family delivering new
levels of speed, power performance and
peripheral integration while maintaining code
compatibility with the existing SHARC portfolio
of products. This document is focused on
helping existing SHARC designers who need
information on evaluating whether upgrading
systems to the new ADSP-21262 is right for
them. This note will highlight the new features
that the ADSP-21262 has to offer and detail the
list of traditional SHARC peripherals that do not
exist in this product. The ADSP-21161 will be
used as the example for the traditional SHARC
processor. For a more in depth analysis of each
of the peripherals available on the ADSP-21262
the ADSP-2126x SHARC Hardware Reference
Manual is an excellent resource.

Commonalities

The ADSP-21262 has a lot in common
with the previous members of the SHARC family
in terms of memory and core functionality. The
serial interfaces and JTAG port are also largely
the same as in the ADSP-21161 and other
SHARC products.

The ADSP-21262 uses the SHARC
SIMD core and runs at 200MHz, twice the speed
of the ADSP-21161. Because the ADSP-21262
uses the traditional 2
core, existing code written for the core is 100%
compatible to the ADSP-21262. The ADSP-

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generation SIMD SHARC

21262 also provides 2Mbits of on chip dual
ported SRAM, twice what is available on the
ADSP-21161. The efficient model for accessing
data from memory using the core or IO processor
also remains the same between both parts. In
addition there is a 4Mbit secure ROM that can be
programmed with your personal code at an
additional fee.

While you will find that some of the
peripheral options have been significantly
changed, the serial interface protocols are similar
to those that exist in the ADSP-21161. There
are 6 serial ports available on the ADSP-21262
and they support normal mode, I2S and TDM as
well as a left justified sample pair mode that is
common to some older CODEC components.
The SPORTs are connected to the pins on the
DSP through a signal routing unit (SRU) which
is part of the Digital Applications Interface
(DAI) that will be discussed in more detail later
in this document. The SPORTs will continue to
run at half the core processor speed translating to
100Mbits/s on the ADSP-21262. Additionally,
precision clock generators (PCG) now enable the
DSP to generate a low jitter clock for use by
external devices as well as the DSPs own serial
ports.

In addition to serial ports, the ADSP­2262 supports the SPI protocol in a separate port.
While the internal design of the SPI port is not
identical to the ADSP-21161, the functionality is
mainly the same. The major difference between
the 2 ports is that ADSP-21262 now supports
DMA chaining on the SPI DMA channel. The

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transmit and receive DMA channels are shared
on this part so DMA transfers are not full duplex,
although they can be if the core is used or is used
in conjunction with DMA. A hardware option
for SPI master booting allows the DSP to boot
from serial EPROM and FLASH in addition to
the traditional SPI slave boot mode that allows
an SPI host to control the booting process on the
DSP.

The boundary scan and ICE/debug functionality
provided is the same as in the previous SHARC
family processor, save two functionality
improvements: user defined hardware
breakpoints and background telemetry channels
(BTC). The user defined hardware breakpoints
allow users to program hardware breakpoints
from within their application code instead of
manually through the emulator software. The
BTC is an enhanced trace capability that allows
the emulator to modify some buffers through
JTAG without interrupting the core.

Important Differences

One of the goals for the ADSP-21262 is
to provide a flexible and powerful SHARC in a
smaller package that uses less power and real
estate for a more attractive price. A number of
major changes have been made to facilitate this
philosophy.

One of the ways to meet this goal was to
introduce a new way to effectively access a
number of the peripherals through what we’ve
termed a Digital Applications Interface (DAI).
The DAI contains a signal routing unit (SRU)
that allows 20 I/O pins to be configured for use
by any of the peripherals in the DAI as well as
used as general purpose I/O. The SRU also
allows peripherals to be connected to each other
internally without having to drive the signal out
onto the pads of the DSP. A macro is provided
that makes it quite simple to connect signals
through the SRU, simplifying the underlying
hardware. In addition to the serial ports and the
PCG which are mentioned earlier in this

document, there is also an Input Data Port that
can capture data from 8 serial channels and bring
it into the internal memory via DMA. 3 I/O
interval timers can be routed through the SRU as
well. These timers are in addition to the
programmable timer provided in the core. They
support PWM, even capture and can handle
watchdog timing. Each pin also has a status bit
associated with it so all the pins can be polled.
Inputs on these signals can also generate
interrupts on the DAI port itself through a
dedicated DAI interrupt controller that maps DAI
interrupts to the core interrupt handler. The DAI
also contains the Parallel Data Acquisition Port
(PDAP) for bringing in synchronous parallel
data. This configurable 20 pin synchronous port
is only capable of data acquisition and cannot
write data out of the DAI pins.

Another way to bring the pin count down
is to reduce the external port width. Instead of a
traditional external/host port ,the ADSP-21262
employs a Parallel Port (PP). The PP is a
configurable 8 or 16 bit wide port that makes use
of a total of 19 pins for data and addressing. The
port allows you to access external SRAM via
DMA and also allows for booting from an
EPROM or FLASH. Because of the limited size
of the external port and the associated time
constraints that go with accessing packed
instructions or data there is no support for
external execution. The expanded internal
memory space, possibility of using ROM code
and the use of overlays from external memory
will provide all of the memory requirements for
instructions and data. There is also no support
for multiprocessing as there was in previous
SHARC families as this requires extensive use of
a large external bus. The PP and the PDAP are
the only ways for the DSP to acquire parallel
data. The ADSP-21262 does not support the link
port protocol that is supported in a number of
previous SHARCs.

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