BRISTOL,
UK - 28 July, 2008. XMOS Semiconductor, the creator of Software
Defined Silicon, has introduced a development kit providing everything
needed to develop a wide range of applications using its XS1-G4
programmable device. Designs are created using a C-based software
development flow that dramatically shortens the time required to build
electronic products and systems.
Offering a complete hardware
and software development environment, the XS1-G development kit (XDK)
features the XS1-G4 target device, QVGA touch screen display, RJ45
10/100 Ethernet port, high-performance stereo audio interface and XLink
connectors for connecting multiple kits together. The XS1-G4 can be
booted from JTAG,an SD/MMC card or on-board SPI boot PROM. In addition
to the integrated multi-media I/O, designers have access to on-board
switches, status LEDs and IDC expansion ports. A set of design examples
is accessible on startup through a soft-key menu system.
The
XS1-G4 device is programmed using web-based XMOS development tools
which include C and XC compilers, simulator and debugger. The kit
includes a tutorial in XC, an XMOS-originated programming language
supporting parallelism, concurrent and real-time programming using
channel-based communications, and event-driven control. Programs can be
evaluated using the simulator, or loaded into the XDK for hardware
verification. A GDB debugger is also provided to simplify program
development.
At the heart of XDK, the XS1-G4 programmable chip
features four XCore tiles connected by a high-performance switch, with
each tile containing an XCore processor - a 400MHz 32bit event-driven
processor. The four XCore tiles together execute up to 32 concurrent
real-time tasks, provide 1600MIPs, and service up to 400 million events
per second. Data and code is stored in 256Kbytes of RAM and 32kBytes of
ROM. Tightly coupled to a highly flexible I/O pin structure, the XCore
processor can implement a range of hardware and software functions
including I/Ointerfaces, state machines, application programs, DSP and
cryptographic algorithms.
XMOS devices are general-purpose
programmable chips used in a wide variety of applications and systems.
They are ideal for designers that need flexibility and differentiation.
The unique device features and software-based design flow make the
XS1-G product family well suited for applications such as Ethernet AV
and audio, intelligent LED displaycontrol, IEEE-1588 network time
keeping and chip-level security systems. Additional information on how
XMOS technology supports these applications can be found on the XMOS
website.
Priced at $1,000 USD, the XS1-G development kit from XMOS Semiconductor is available now and can be purchased from www.xmos.com or from local XMOS sales representatives.
For further information and reader enquiries contact XMOS marketing.
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