xKITS
We offer a wide range of development kits to make evaluating and development with our XCORE™ multicore microcontrollers as easy as possible. There is a kit for everyone's needs.
xKITS
Evaluating and developing with xCORE multicore microcontrollers is easy thanks to our flexible design kit, sliceKIT. sliceKIT comprises of a core board powered by a sixteen core xCORE flexible multicore microcontroller. It supports up to four I/O slice cards.
The sliceKIT core board features our 16 core L2 device to deliver the deterministic, responsive processing required to handle a variety of peripheral interfaces, data processing and control tasks.
Each I/O slice is supplied with a demo application allowing you to get up and running quickly. The result is a framework of peripherals and I/O providing you with an exact fit chip for your system.
The possibilities are endless. For example, you have an Ethernet to UART bridge consisting of Ethernet and the multiple UART slice. You now need to add support for a second Ethernet interface. Easy! Simply add another Ethernet slice to your hardware, a second Ethernet block to your design and fill in the code between the peripherals.
We provide a large and growing range of expansion slices supporting a broad range of I/O types. The slices connect to the core board using low cost PCIe style connectors. This reduces the cost of slices since the connectors are simply contacts on a dual sided PCB. It also means adding your own slice is straightforward.
sliceKIT Starter Kit
The starter kit provides everything you need to build your first application using xCORE multicore microcontrollers. The Core Board provides a 16 core multicore microcontroller, which together with the xTIMEcomposer tool suite and xSOFTip allow you to quickly and easily achieve your goals. The two slice cards included in the kit give you access to a wide range of applications, demonstrations, examples and tutorials.
Starter Kit Contents
Demo and resources
Audio Slice
The Audio Slice Card provides audio and MIDI connectivity to sliceKIT. Four audio input and four audio output channels are provided on the Slice Card via an I2S interface to audio codecs. The xSOFTip I2S component drives all 4 channels in both directions at sample rates up to 192 KHz. Additional features include an SPDIF output, MIDI input and output connectors.
If you're building an audio application, this is the Slice for you!
Features
Demo and resources
Standalone Demo
The standalone demo for this slice card allows you to use the I2S xSOFTip to create a digital audio loopback between the I2S inputs and I2S outputs. From there, you might want to add an SDRAM and your own audio effects, or perhaps you want Ethernet, or perhaps something entirely different...
Ethernet Slice
The Ethernet Slice Card provides 100Mbps Ethernet connectivity to sliceKIT. Combined with Ethernet xSOFTip, it allows XCORE multicore microcontrollers to be used in any embedded Ethernet system. You might want a TCP stack and webserver in your system, or maybe you need to provide highly responsive, low latency command and control over UDP, or even you own custom protocol. You might even want two Ethernet ports - XCORE gives you the flexibility to do it.
HELLO POSSIBILITY!
Features
Demo and resources
Standalone Demo
The standalone demo for this slice card allows you to use xSOFTip to run a webserver on your xCORE multicore microcontroller. Using the TCP/IP and Webserver xSOFTip you can quickly extend this to provide Ethernet connectivity for any application.
GPIO Slice
The GPIO Slice Card provides a collection of features to sliceKIT including LEDs, buttons and A/D inputs. Combined with xSOFTip it allows simple input/output functions to be evaluated easily, and provides I/O expansion to connect your sliceKIT to other systems. The quick start guide will help you get up and running with sliceKIT in seconds.
Features
Demo and resources
Standalone Demo
The standalone demo for this slice card allows you to use xSOFTip to flash LEDs, read the ADC via I2C and output to the console via JTAG.
IS-BUS Slice
The IS-BUS sliceCARD provides flexible serial connectivity for industrial applications. It includes transceivers for CAN at 1Mbps, LIN at 20Kbps as well as a RS485 at 12Mbps, backed up by associated xSOFTip blocks. All three interfaces may be used simultaneously when connecting via the 0.1” headers. Alternatively one interface can be routed to the DB9 connector
Features
LCD Slice
The Display Slice Card brings a 480 x 272 RGB display to sliceKIT. The xCORE multicore microcontroller drives the display directly without the use of an external LCD controller, via a parallel RGB interface. Using the xSOFTip LCD controller you can add a display to any system. The SDRAM slice could also be a useful addition to your system, providing additional data memory for frame buffering.
Want to drive a different display? - no problem, the LCD xSOFTip can easily be modified to support other display configurations, up to 800x600.
Features
Demo and resources
Standalone Demo
The standalone demo for this slice card drives the display with a refresh rate of 66Hz. A dual line buffer implementatio uses the internal xCORE memory to display a bouncing 'X' on the screen.
Multi UART Slice
The Multi UART Slice Card provides eight 115.2 Kbaud Full Duplex Uarts connected to two 8-bit ports. Combined with sc_multi_uart xSOFTip, it allows XCORE multicore microcontrollers to implement multiple fast RS232 or TTL UARTs in the minimum number of logical cores. This Slice Card along with the Ethernet Slice Card and the associated xSoftIp also form the basis of a fully feature Ethernet-to-multi-serial reference design.
Features
Demo and resources
Standalone Demo
The standalone demo for this slice card uses the multi UART xSOFTip to create a UART and send data to and from a PC COM port.
SDRAM Slice
The SDRAM Slice card provides a large external random access memory to sliceKIT, perfect for any application where a large external data buffer is required: image buffering for a display controller, audio buffering for effects processing, or perhaps data capture, processing and logging.
Features
Demo and resources
Standalone Demo
The standalone demo for this slice card provides a simple example of reading and writing memory using the SDRAM xSOFTip.
WiFi Slice
The Wi-Fi sliceCARD uses a high performance 2.4GHz WLAN module to bring 802.11b/g wireless connectivity to sliceKIT, with throughput of up to 7Mbps. Using the ready-built xSOFTip SPI component, it allows you to easily integrate the wireless module into your application. Our xSOFTip Explorer tool includes demo apps and full documentation to get you started quickly.
Features
Slicekit Core Board
Already got a starter kit and would like to expand your system, or perhaps you are building your second system? The Core Board is delivered without the JTAG adaptor or slice cards. Of course, you can pick and chose which Slice Cards you need for your application.
Kit Contents
Note: JTAG adaptor and XTAG2 are not included. If you do not have these, please see the Slicekit Starter Kit.
