The ADSP-21486 offers the highest performance – 400 MHz/2400 MFLOPs – in an LQFP package within the fourth generation SHARC Processor family. This level of performance makes the ADSP-21486 particularly well suited to address the consumer audio segment. In addition to its high core performance, the ADSP-21486 includes additional processing blocks such as FIR, IIR and FFT accelerators to increase the total performance of the system. There is a new feature called Variable Instruction Set Architecture (VISA) that allows the code size to be decreased by 20% to 30% and increase the memory size availability. The ADSP-21486 is ideal for applications that do not need the burden of adding an external DRAM memory component.