Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer
| Designer | Analog Devices |
|---|---|
| Bits | 32-bit |
| Introduced | 1999 |
| Design | DSP/RISC |
| Type | Load–store, Harvard architecture, word-addressed, VLIW |
| Encoding | 48-bit |
| Branching | ? |
| Endianness | Neither |
| Registers | |
| ? | |
| General-purpose | ? |
The Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer (SHARC) is a high performance floating-point and fixed-point DSP from Analog Devices. SHARC is used in a variety of signal processing applications ranging from audio processing, to single-CPU guided artillery shells to 1000-CPU over-the-horizon radar processing computers. The original design dates to about January 1994.
SHARC processors are typically intended to have a good number of serial links to other SHARC processors nearby, to be used as a low-cost alternative to SMP.