JohnWilson - I am glad you have been following the XS1. I had interest in it for a while too, but have been put off by the lack of availability and communication about this device's availability. Recently I was on XMOS site and saw it still wasn't available. I recall reading something about contacti...

lilltroll - the drill size is currently 0.2mm, which is at the limit of the board houses I usually work with. Part of that 30% of work to do, once the board is fully routed, is to review items like this. In some areas I may be able to increase the drill size. I also usually do a couple rounds of quo...

I'm still plugging away on this idea. The past week or so I've been off and on working on the PCB layout. I'm getting closer, but I also find when I do a PCB that once it is all routed that I still have about 30% of work to do like cleaning up footprints, doing some reroutes, naming, labeling, cente...

DrNO - I think I can help some. You ask good questions, I too am curious on some of these details. 1. DNP = Do Not Populate. I haven't studied the design in detail to explain why. 2. Studied this, but unsure. 3. The four signals, I presume, have buffers because the signals are identical on all board...

I've been building up my schematic and board layout for an XMOS Multiplate ( https://www.xcore.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1642 and I have found that the footprint in the data sheet for the crystal oscillator seems overly large compared to the device. Corin - When I look at the picture of the...

Hmm - good point. I hadn't considered it from that angle. I was searching so many other names though like xplate, xstrata, etc, but several of those names were taken by trademarks and such.

Dan - thanks for the encouragement. I've settled on a name for the product line, I'll call it XMP, short for XMultiPlane. The Planes can be stacked. The inspiration for the name comes from the famous multiplane camera used in animation features and made famous by Walt Disney. X, of course, is like X...

Nice work DrNo. Tell us more about the design. What layout software did you use? Why create your own board?

The video looks great, I'm glad you are making progress and sharing it with the community.

Today I received some sample connectors I ordered. These are the headers and sockets that may be used for interconnecting the different plates. The pictures aren't so good, but give you a better idea of the parts size and arrangement. The socket is a bottom entry socket. 2x10. SMT. This would be on ...

I first heard about XMOS a couple years ago and I bought one of the original G4 kits. A couple weeks ago I decided check back in and I found that there is now a 48 pin QFP L1 device. I immediately thought of a couple projects I would like to do to learn about the hardware and to get back into XMOS. ...