@rodstartube Yes XMOS chips are great for motor control and robotics applications. In fact many UAVs have been made built upon the XMOS platform - see video 9nxEJUIeinA as an example. There are plenty of examples on our community website xcore.com for PWM, UART, SPI, I2C etc - check it out - many free to download and use in your own projects. Finally, yes you can connect our processors together via exposed "x-links" like in our XMP-64 board (16 quadcore processors!)
there's something that it really gets me confused about this chip, please help me: I would want the processing power of this chip in my robotics project. Usually I use microcontrollers with I/O pins, PWM A/D conversion, comparators, usart, spi, i2c, etc... but i don't see those peripherals on XMOS. should it be used as a co-processor to my microcontroller? or something, or it has expansion cards the XMOS processor? ... you can see how lost I am, please help.- thx
@rodstartube Yes XMOS chips are great for motor control and robotics applications. In fact many UAVs have been made built upon the XMOS platform - see video 9nxEJUIeinA as an example. There are plenty of examples on our community website xcore.com for PWM, UART, SPI, I2C etc - check it out - many free to download and use in your own projects. Finally, yes you can connect our processors together via exposed "x-links" like in our XMP-64 board (16 quadcore processors!)
I'm interested in digital preservation as of implementing classic computers and gaming systems inside XMOS. Ideas like fpgaarcade, c-one and others could be interesting to be in XMOS form.
Other project I liked is MIDIbox. It uses PIC, but maybe something like that could use XMOS too.
I would like to see a XMOS Contest. Great prices, f.e. the 1st price be a free production of boards for selling it.
It seems really like Transputer reborn and that is a cool thing. I see many Transputer fans out there, those could be very happy this great technology evolved to a viable new platform.
What about migration from FPGA and CPLD? It's possible to recompile VHDL and Verilog?
I read up a bit on the architecture, and this is a seriously impressive setup. It uses a multithread core like "hyperthreading", to avoid interlocking pipeline stages, while using smart I/O blocks to give precise timing control and generic functionality. Basically, it's everything the Propeller hinted at but failed to provide.
Using it will require a clock source and some separate memory. The one thing that worries me, as a hobbyist, is the bottom ground pad. It might turn out hard to solder.
Thanks for the nice comment. We are glad you like it. In terms of soldering - this should be ok if you have a steady hand - I have seen people in the office do it. Alternatively I am sure you can use a PCB board manufacturing company to make your board and put on components at the same time for quite a reasonable price. I believe this has been discussed on our forums at our community site. I will PM you a link as YouTube does not allow links in posts. Have you heard about the XMOS challenge?
@rodstartube Yes XMOS chips are great for motor control and robotics applications. In fact many UAVs have been made built upon the XMOS platform - see video 9nxEJUIeinA as an example. There are plenty of examples on our community website xcore.com for PWM, UART, SPI, I2C etc - check it out - many free to download and use in your own projects. Finally, yes you can connect our processors together via exposed "x-links" like in our XMP-64 board (16 quadcore processors!)
MyXMOS 1 year ago
by the way... can these chips be used in chain so multiply processing power?
rodstartube 1 year ago
there's something that it really gets me confused about this chip, please help me: I would want the processing power of this chip in my robotics project. Usually I use microcontrollers with I/O pins, PWM A/D conversion, comparators, usart, spi, i2c, etc... but i don't see those peripherals on XMOS. should it be used as a co-processor to my microcontroller? or something, or it has expansion cards the XMOS processor? ... you can see how lost I am, please help.- thx
rodstartube 1 year ago
@rodstartube Yes XMOS chips are great for motor control and robotics applications. In fact many UAVs have been made built upon the XMOS platform - see video 9nxEJUIeinA as an example. There are plenty of examples on our community website xcore.com for PWM, UART, SPI, I2C etc - check it out - many free to download and use in your own projects. Finally, yes you can connect our processors together via exposed "x-links" like in our XMP-64 board (16 quadcore processors!)
MyXMOS 1 year ago
I'm interested in digital preservation as of implementing classic computers and gaming systems inside XMOS. Ideas like fpgaarcade, c-one and others could be interesting to be in XMOS form.
Other project I liked is MIDIbox. It uses PIC, but maybe something like that could use XMOS too.
timofonic 2 years ago
I would like to see a XMOS Contest. Great prices, f.e. the 1st price be a free production of boards for selling it.
It seems really like Transputer reborn and that is a cool thing. I see many Transputer fans out there, those could be very happy this great technology evolved to a viable new platform.
What about migration from FPGA and CPLD? It's possible to recompile VHDL and Verilog?
timofonic 2 years ago
Get ready for interest in this chip to really hike up!
It is forming part of the NEW AMIGA!
X1000 from A-Eon / Hyperion computers
ddniUK 2 years ago 2
I read up a bit on the architecture, and this is a seriously impressive setup. It uses a multithread core like "hyperthreading", to avoid interlocking pipeline stages, while using smart I/O blocks to give precise timing control and generic functionality. Basically, it's everything the Propeller hinted at but failed to provide.
Using it will require a clock source and some separate memory. The one thing that worries me, as a hobbyist, is the bottom ground pad. It might turn out hard to solder.
YTrefusesAllNames 2 years ago
Thanks for the nice comment. We are glad you like it. In terms of soldering - this should be ok if you have a steady hand - I have seen people in the office do it. Alternatively I am sure you can use a PCB board manufacturing company to make your board and put on components at the same time for quite a reasonable price. I believe this has been discussed on our forums at our community site. I will PM you a link as YouTube does not allow links in posts. Have you heard about the XMOS challenge?
MyXMOS 2 years ago
In fact our new kit which will be released soon is very modular in nature allowing you to connect the kits together for more processing power etc.
This makes the XMOS solution very scalable. If you have any questions feel free to ask away and I can point you in the right direction.
MyXMOS 2 years ago
The question is - what would you like it to be used in?
This is the great thing, you can use it in pretty much whatever you want. Check out some of our other videos to see what I mean.
If a single chip is not powerful enough for your needs, then our quad core chips may be better suited.
If those are not powerful enough, then you can simply join our processors together to add more processors to the task!
MyXMOS 2 years ago
what is it gonna be used in?
EMIHM 2 years ago
What would you like to use it in?
MyXMOS 2 years ago