XMOS is establishing a new semiconductor category that transforms the way in which electronic products are designed by bringing together the flexibility of FPGAs, ease of designing with processors and low price points for volume deployments
For companies developing a wide variety of applications, including audio, connectivity, communications, multimedia and industrial products, the XMOS solution delivers:
- Uniquely short development cycles that enable maximum financial opportunity in an era of quickly evolving product categories, rapid technology advances, increasing complexity, and constant price pressure.
- Elimination of risk where errors can be easily fixed and technology changes can be quickly addressed in high-level software, instead of having to change the mask of a chip or go through a lengthy place and route and re-validation effort.
- Agile development that allows modifications, even at the hardware level, to be made late in the development cycle to respond to changes in standards and requirements, or product upgrade in the field.
- Energy efficient processors that are based on an event-driven execution model, so that power is only consumed on demand, providing low power consumption compared to FPGAs.
XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company and was founded in 2005 by experienced semiconductor executives. Based in Bristol, United Kingdom, with offices in Sunnyvale, California and Chennai, India, XMOS has attracted investments from top tier venture capitalist firms Amadeus Capital, DFJ-Esprit and Foundation Capital.
What our customers say ...
"With XMOS we did in two weeks what normally took us six months in an FPGA. XMOS has given us the flexibility of an FPGA and the easy, C-based design process of a microcontroller. And at an attractive price." Bob Proctor, CTO of Intelligent Media Technologies
"Without the XMOS reference design we could never have finished the project in time for CES." Kevin Halverson, CTO of High Resolution Technologies
"Our engineers have been impressed with how easily XMOS devices can be customized for their specific applications. Working with XMOS to validate their Ethernet AVB reference design has proven how quickly and easily they - and we - can add new reference blocks." Robert Boatright, director of Research, Corporate Technology Group, at Harman International.
