Drives collaborative development of standard media streaming between A/V devices
Bristol, UK and Burlingame, Calif. (May 24, 2011) – In a move to accelerate the adoption of the AVB (Audio Video Bridging) standard into a wide range of media devices, XMOS®, developer of the industry’s first event-driven 32-bit embedded processor, is immediately transferring its entire AVB software reference design into the XCore Open Source Project (http://github.xcore.com). This is the industry’s first open source implementation of the popular audio/visual streaming over Ethernet standard.
The AVB software implementation has been optimized for high performance audio end-nodes based on XMOS event-driven embedded processors. AVB protocols, digital audio interfaces and control software have all been integrated into a single low cost device. The XMOS open software has been extensively tested for A/V device interoperability in customer products and at AVnu Alliance plugfests.
"XMOS' decision to place their AVB protocol software into the open source realm will only make that solution more viable. One of the great promises of AVB was that, as an IEEE standard, AVB was non-proprietary and available to everyone without licensing costs. This move by XMOS finally makes that promise a reality, and should be a tremendous help moving AVB acceptance forward," said Mike Sims, director of marketing and sales for Attero Tech.
"The availability of the XMOS open source version of the AVB software is a key sign that the media interconnect standard is maturing and rapidly establishing itself as a force in the market. Industry collaboration on the open standard will enable companies to focus resources on developing highly differentiated products," said Robert Boatright, director of research at Harman International.
The XCore Open Source project contains a wide range of XMOS and developer contributed software-based peripherals, applications, hardware reference designs and tools. The entire AVB application is made available under a license derived from the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License. This business-friendly license enables developers to decide which hardware and software enhancements to contribute back to the XCore Open Source project. All proprietary developer code is fully protected.
XMOS will be exhibiting reference platforms using the AVB open source software at the upcoming InfoComm trade show, June 15-17 in the AVnu pavilion, booth #383C. A video discussing the importance of the XCore Open Source Project may be viewed at http://www.xmos.com/videos.
About the XCore Open Source Project
The XCore Open Source Project has been set up, as a community, to create a comprehensive set of software, hardware designs and tools that enable great ideas and businesses to thrive on XMOS event-driven technology. The program is officially sponsored by XMOS as a true open-source project. Contributions to the library have been made by XMOS, customers, universities and volunteers. For more information on the open source library visit http://github.xcore.com.
About XMOS
Headquartered in Bristol, UK, XMOS has developed an event-driven 32-bit, user-defined embedded processor that significantly lowers product development time and bill of materials cost. The revolutionary multithreaded processor combines 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 multicore 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 XMOS open community site at www.xcore.com.
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