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New XMOS Desktop Tools release: 10.4.1
jason

On Friday a new version of the XMOS Desktop Tools has been released: version 10.4.1.

Release notes are as follows:

Debugger:
- Fixed XTAG-2 issue with MacBook/MacBook Pro
- Fixed XTAG-2 driver installation on Windows 7 64-bit

So upgrade to the latest version here!

jason
09/08/2010 - 08:39
Meridian and HRT announce that XMOS Customers Build Better Products, Faster
jason

XMOS® today announces that its customers, Meridian, Intelligent Media Technologies and High Resolution Technologies, have lowered development costs, shortened time to market and increased design flexibility to produce more differentiated products by using XMOS event-driven processors™

“Embedded design and development is constantly evolving and because of this we have found that designing ASICs is becoming cost prohibitive and that SoCs tend to lack the interfaces many engineering teams need for their designs,” said Rick Kreifeldt, vice president Global Automotive Research and Innovation at Harman International and president of AVnu Alliance. “XCore® processors provide a flexible, low-cost hardware platform for cost effective development of competitive, differentiated products.”

“At Meridian, our standard is to combine premium sound devices with leading-edge design, and XMOS let us continue this legacy at a low cost and in a short development time, especially considering the degree of integration required with the Control 15,” said Richard Hollinshead, director of engineering at Meridian. “By exchanging multiple silicon pieces for a single XMOS chip, we have lowered costs and harnessed the flexibility to integrate specific, differentiating functionality in the Control 15 that other chips simply didn’t allow. Developing on XCore processors showed us the next generation of programmable silicon.”

Read more here: http://bit.ly/XMOSFast

Discuss it with us in the forum here.

jason
03/08/2010 - 11:15
Project Of The Month - August - Yzoer - VDP-1
jason

Congratulations to Yzoer who is this months winner for his VDP-1 (Tile and sprite based Video Display Processor) project which has been released under the MIT licence.

A quote from Yzoer's project is as follows:

"In case anyone’s interested, here are the specs:

1024 tiles of 8×8 pixels, 16 colors per tile for a total of 32K
16 palettes of 16 colors for a grand total of 256 colors on-screen out of 32768.
2 independently moveable backgrounds, pixel scrollable on both X- and Y
32 sprites ranging from 8×8 to 64×64 pixels
Horizontal and vertical flipping for background tiles ( hopefully sprites soon too! )

Currently the whole thing runs on a single core, in only 2 threads and memory to spare. The ‘plan’ is to clean it all up and add audio at some point, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it."

Once again well done to Yzoer, please do check out his project here!

Discuss this project with us here in the forums.

jason
02/08/2010 - 09:00
USB Library and HID Example
jason

XMOS supports a software library that enables you to build USB systems. You can design USB interfaces that follow standard USB classes (such as USB Audio, USB HID, or USB DFU), and USB interfaces that follow your own bespoke standards. The XUD library takes care of the low level packet handling, and requires you to just implement endpoint functionality.

The library documentation describes the implementation of a HID device as an example of a standard USB device class.

The current USB library and documentation is released as beta software. The XUD interface is likely to be improved and changes made to existing function calls.

Find out more and download here: http://bit.ly/XUDUSB

jason
27/07/2010 - 08:27

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