ADSP BF536, BF537 (Blackfin)

ADSP BF536, BF537 are SoCs of Blackfin processor family targeted at industrial and embedded networked applications. BF536, BF537 are almost the same processors differ only in performance and on-chip SRAM memory.

ADSP BF536 and BF537 features:

  • 400 MHz processor core for BF536 and 600 MHz for BF537
  • 10/100 Ethernet MAC
  • Controller Area Network (CAN) 2.0B Interface
  • Two-Wire Interface (TWI) Controller
  • 2 UARTs
  • SPI controller
  • Parallel Peripheral Interface (PPI)
  • 2 SPORTs

Linux on BF536 / BF537:
Excellent uClinux support at blackfin.uclinux.org, contains open-source software and hardware projects for Blackfin.

Bootloader: uboot

Peripherals support:

  • Blackfin Ethernet MAC drivers/net/bfin_mac.[c,h]
  • Blackfin CAN Controller drivers/char/can4linux/bf537funcs.c
  • Blackfin UARTs in drivers/serial/bfin_5xx.c and bfin_serial_5xx.[c,h]
  • Blackfin RTC in drivers/char/bfin_rtc.[c,h]
  • Blackfin SPORTs in drivers/char/bfin_sport.c
  • Blackfin PPI in drivers/char/bfin_ppi.[c,h]
  • SPI controller in drivers/spi/spi_bfin5xx.c