1. 引言
在设计消费类音频产品的系统框架时,一般的思路是选用MCU+DSP双芯片分别满足驱动外设+数字音频处理的需求。以双通道立体声音箱为例,一颗主频在100MHz左右的MCU搭配一颗ADI的入门级音频处理DSP,即可基本满足需求。此类方案灵活性高,但硬件BOM成本较高,且算法开发工作的通用性不高。
随着嵌入式平台主芯片性能的不断提高,用一颗MCU同时满足驱动外设和数字音频处理的构想已经成为了现实,这里起到关键作用的即是FPU(浮点运算单元)。有代表性的MCU是ST公司出品的STM32F4系列。
The ARM® Cortex®-M4-based STM32F4 MCU series leverages ST’s NVM technology and ART Accelerator™ to reach the industry’s highest benchmark scores for Cortex-M-based microcontrollers with up to 225 DMIPS/608 CoreMark executing from Flash memory at up to 180 MHz operating frequency.
With dynamic power scaling, the current consumption running from Flash ranges from 89 µA/MHz on the STM32F410 up to 260 µA/MHz on the STM32F439.
The STM32F4 series consists of eight compatible product lines of digital signal controllers (DSC), a perfect symbiosis of the real-time control capabilities of an MCU and the signal p