Event-Driven Processor Company Supports New Open Source Program
Bristol, UK and Burlingame, Calif. (March 15, 2011) – XMOS®, developer of the industry’s first event-driven 32-bit embedded processor, announced today it has passed a major milestone with the 1,000th registration on the popular xcore.com developer community site. Users of the website can take advantage of a host of XMOS-related developer resources including shared project implementation ideas, a community-driven discussion forum, and immediate access to the recently implemented collaborative open source program.
Support for the newly created open source library will speed the development of a wide-range of embedded products using XMOS event-driven processors. Unlike traditional interrupt-driven processors such as ARM, MIPS and Intel, the event-driven XMOS architecture enables systems, including peripherals, to be quickly and reliably built from high-level "C" code components – not as silicon gates.
To date, XMOS has contributed more than 10 software components to the open source project including an Ethernet MAC, S/PDIF interface and a complete TCP/IP stack. Community members have also contributed software intellectual property (IP) to the recently launched project.
"The new XMOS Open Source Library is a significant resource with valuable IP from both XMOS and the community," said Mikael Bohman, an XCore community member. "It is a model response to address how embedded developers can quickly and efficiently get products to market through collaborative development and rapid enhancement."
“We have been very pleased with the rapid growth of the XCore community. We are looking forward to seeing the new XCore Open Source Project grow quickly with significant intellectual property that is contributed, exchanged and enhanced by XMOS silicon users around the world,” said Joerg Bertholdt, vice president of marketing at XMOS.
The open source project is hosted at github.xcore.com. A permissive license derived from the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License allows developers to study, adopt, modify, incorporate and commercialize contributions into their own designs. XMOS users can download the software-defined components from the open source site for use with XMOS Development Tools, which are available free of charge from www.xmos.com.
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About XMOS Ltd.
Headquartered in Bristol, UK, XMOS has developed the next generation of 32-bit, multi-core, multi-threaded, embedded microcontrollers that significantly lower development time and system bill of materials cost. The company’s event-driven microcontrollers combine the code efficiency of a RISC processor, the computational performance of a DSP and the unique flexibility of implementing all peripherals through user-defined “C” software, not in silicon. The XMOS multi-core architecture supports high levels of real-time performance with operating system functionality built directly into the hardware architecture. The company was founded in 2005 and has additional offices in Burlingame, CA, Austin, TX, and Chennai, India. For more information about XMOS and its solutions, please visit www.xmos.com or the open community site at www.xcore.com.
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