Choosing a USB development board
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 4:32 pm
I am getting reasonably comfortable with the startkit and want to move on to a development board that supports USB.
I want to eventually create an instrumentation product that has a GUI on a PC that is written in C#
The PC will communicate with a custom XMOS board using full speed USB
I think that the sweet spot for price/ performance would be an XU series processor but there doesn't seem to be a development board based on the XU series.
The development boards I am considering are :
1) Xcore-200 slicekit (XK-Sk-200-ST)
My concerns are:
a) that this product is very new and there doesn't seem to be a lot of documentation or software support
b)It seems very expensive relative to KIT DEV FOR XE216 Family
c) does it work with all previous slicecards designed for the xs1 slicekit?
d) can I use the existing code base and forum information that pertains to the XS! slice kit? Ie can the xsofttip code be used with it?
2) XCORE-200 explorerKIt
a) this seems to have the same processing power as the XORE-200 slicekit at about half price . If you don't need to use slice boards this seems the way to go.
b)Is there a large amount of code and knowledge base available for this product?
c) I notice that Digikey and Farnell have no stock for this board. Is it declining in popularity.
d) Is it being phased out?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I want to eventually create an instrumentation product that has a GUI on a PC that is written in C#
The PC will communicate with a custom XMOS board using full speed USB
I think that the sweet spot for price/ performance would be an XU series processor but there doesn't seem to be a development board based on the XU series.
The development boards I am considering are :
1) Xcore-200 slicekit (XK-Sk-200-ST)
My concerns are:
a) that this product is very new and there doesn't seem to be a lot of documentation or software support
b)It seems very expensive relative to KIT DEV FOR XE216 Family
c) does it work with all previous slicecards designed for the xs1 slicekit?
d) can I use the existing code base and forum information that pertains to the XS! slice kit? Ie can the xsofttip code be used with it?
2) XCORE-200 explorerKIt
a) this seems to have the same processing power as the XORE-200 slicekit at about half price . If you don't need to use slice boards this seems the way to go.
b)Is there a large amount of code and knowledge base available for this product?
c) I notice that Digikey and Farnell have no stock for this board. Is it declining in popularity.
d) Is it being phased out?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!