This paper will first review the features and benefits of

price / performance-leading 56F8000 Digital Signal Controllers

(DSCs), then investigate some applications now enabled by these

revolutionary devices. Freescales’s DSCs and microcontrollers

have a long and distinguished history in industrial and control

applications. The new 56F8000 series is the latest addition to the

widely adopted 56800/E portfolio of high-performance,

Flash-based processors. The 56F8000 devices combine the

capabilities of a microcontroller with the signal processing

performance of a Digital Signal Processor (DSP).