ADSP-SC58x and ADSP-2158x Series

Multicore SHARC+arm® SOC Delivers 26GFLOPS Performance at Under 2W for Advanced Real-Time Audio and Industrial Applications

Designed for a Wide Variety of Real-Time Applications

  • Automotive, Consumer and Professional Audio
  • Multi-axis motor control
  • Energy distribution systems
  • and other computationally intensive use cases




  • ADSP-SC589:  Dual-core SHARC+ (w/1.25MB L1), arm® Cortex-A5, dual DDR, 2xEthernet, 2xUSB, SDIO, PCIe, 529-cspBGA
  • ADSP-SC587:  Dual-core SHARC+ (w/1.25MB L1), arm® Cortex-A5, dual DDR, 2xEthernet, 2xUSB, SDIO, 529-cspBGA
  • ADSP-SC584:  Dual-core SHARC+ (w/1.25MB L1), arm® Cortex-A5, DDR, Ethernet, USB, 349-cspBGA
  • ADSP-SC583:  Dual-core SHARC+ (w/768KB L1), arm® Cortex-A5, DDR, Ethernet, USB, 349-cspBGA
  • ADSP-SC582:  Single-core SHARC+ (w/640KB L1), arm® Cortex-A5, DDR, Ethernet, USB, 349-cspBGA
  • ADSP-21587:  Dual-core SHARC+ DSP (w/1.25MB L1), dual DDR, 529-cspBGA
  • ADSP-21584:  Dual-core SHARC+ DSP (w/1.25MB L1), DDR, 349-cspBGA
  • ADSP-21583:  Dual-core SHARC+ DSP (w/1.25MB L1), DDR, 349-cspBGA

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Features and Benefits

Single-chip SOC Providing Optimized BOM Cost and Board Area Design
  • Integrated dual SHARC+ floating-point DSP cores and arm® Cortex®-A5 processor
Class leading low power floating-pt DSP Performance at under 2W
  • 6GFLOPs, 2.0GMACS Floating-pt SHARC+ DSP performance (2x 500MHz)
  • 20GFLOPS FFT/iFFT Accelerator delivering over 5x SHARC core performance (5µsec 1024-pt cFFT with DMA)
  • Enabling 105°C environments and reduced heat-sinks and no fans for increased reliability & robustness
Integrated & optimized low power connectivity engine (ADSP-SC58x series only)
  • Industry standard arm® Cortex®-A5 (900DMIPS at 500 MHz) with FPU and Neon® DSP extensions
  • Enhanced integrated peripherals including Gigabit Ethernet (w/AVB), MLB, USB, CAN, SDIO & PCIe
Targeting advanced floating-point real-time DSP applications
  • Easy to use deterministic DSP coding at twice the previous SHARC performance
  • Code compatible SHARC+ cores add double precision floating point support, byte addressability, optional L1-cache mode and branch prediction
  • Large on-chip 640KB L1 SRAM/cache per SHARC+ core, 256KB shared L2 SRAM & advanced DMA features
  • High performance external memory with up to dual-DDR3 interfaces
  • Glue-less DSP Digital Audio Interfaces including 8x full SPORT (w/I2S), SPDIF & Sample Rate Converters
  • Multiple serial interfaces including Quad SPI, I2C, UARTs
  • Scalable multi-device support with high speed link-port or PCIe connectivity options
Advanced Security with Cryptographic accelerators and OTP Memory
  • For IP protection, fast secure boot and secure network connectivity
Data Integrity with Parity or ECC protected SRAM and Fault Management Unit

Multiple ADSP-SC58x and ADSP-2158x Product Options
  • One or two SHARC+ cores, with or without the arm® Cortex®-A5 processor, and various peripheral options
  • Pin compatible options within two variants of a 19-mm × 19-mm (0.8mm pitch) cspBGA package
  • Higher-pin-count full-featured version (529-Ball) or a cost-optimized, reduced pin-count option (349-Ball)
Advanced Easy-to-Use Development Tools
  • CrossCore Embedded Studio (CCES) with optimized C/C++ compiler, DSP Libraries and project examples
  • FreeRTOS real-time operating system on both SHARC+ and arm® Cortex®-A5 cores, as well as HCC Embedded USB Host, USB Device, and file system stacks running on the arm® Cortex®-A5.
  • ADSP-SC58x EZ-KIT-Lite development boards with full reference schematics and PCB design details
  • High speed JTAG emulators (ICE-1000/2000) facilitate the creation, test, and debug of advanced applications
Embedded Linux Support for arm® Cortex®-A5 core
  • Buildroot based distribution
  • Integrated with CCES on Linux based host
  • Support for both kernel and application debugging

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