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Hi,

what resources and documentation would be a good start to write my own assembler for the xmos? Also is the new 200 processor fully compatible with the one on slicekit?


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https://www.xmos.com/published/xs2-isa-specification

The XCORE-200 slicekits are compatible with XCORE-200 and the older L-series slicekits are compatible with XS1
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is there a big difference between XS1 and Xcore-200? In terms of programming the two are there any differences in programming such as different instruction set or new instructions etc?
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Yes its a different instruction set, moreover XCORE-200 supports dual issue and additional instructions compared to XS1. I'm not sure if mutual instructions have the exact encoding or not but you can easily confirm that comparing with the XS1 architecture document.
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Is there a startkit available based on XS2? Ive seen only those based on XS1 that link from xmos site or am i wrong?
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Nope there isn't
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