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Title: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: SysAdmin on March 09, 2012, 02:16:02 PM
News from YouTube via Varisys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5LLqe62_J8

"A short clip showing the first XORRO prototyping board fitted in an AmigaOne X-1000 Nemo mainboard, with XENA (the XMOS processor) toggling its I/Os to make some LEDs flash."
Title: Re: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: bloodline on March 09, 2012, 02:28:38 PM
Time to throw away your Arduino guys!! ;)
Title: Re: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: takemehomegrandma on March 09, 2012, 03:02:28 PM
Quote from: bloodline;683054
Time to throw away your Arduino guys!! ;)


:lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: Templario on March 09, 2012, 03:55:36 PM
Beautyful lights, it is XORRO's Lights....
Title: Re: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: TheDaddy on March 09, 2012, 04:06:28 PM
Yeah what a waste of time, energy and money hey...Trev what were you thinking!
Title: Re: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: jorkany on March 09, 2012, 04:58:23 PM
Why does the X1000 require a second XMOS to perform this demonstration? Does the onboard XMOS not work?
Title: Re: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: kickstart on March 09, 2012, 06:51:21 PM
Its a joke?
Title: Re: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: Hans_ on March 09, 2012, 08:22:56 PM
Quote from: TheDaddy;683058
Yeah what a waste of time, energy and money hey...Trev what were you thinking!


Not a waste of time, energy and money at all. What you're seeing is a prototyping board (veroboard style) that they have populated with a few buffers and LEDS, just to confirm that it's working. Flashing LEDs is a hardware developer's (and embedded software developer's) equivalent of "Hello World!" This is also the first thing that I do when I'm working with a new micro-controller.

Hans
Title: Re: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: Hans_ on March 09, 2012, 08:25:36 PM
Quote from: jorkany;683066
Why does the X1000 require a second XMOS to perform this demonstration? Does the onboard XMOS not work?

The "second XMOS" is called an XTAG-2 debug adaptor (http://www.xmos.com/products/development-kits/xtag-2-debug-adapter) (debugging via the JTAG port). It's not doing the work, but it is helping them with debugging any problems. Once the software is done for AmigaOS 4, debugging will be possible directly instead of via that device.

Hans
Title: Re: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: koaftder on March 09, 2012, 09:37:35 PM
Quote from: Hans_;683084
This is also the first thing that I do when I'm working with a new micro-controller.


Out of curiosity, when you're working with a new micro controller, do you haul off and buy a $3,000 computer that can't run the tool chain?

This thing really is a waste of time, especially considering that the dev kits cost $100.
Title: Re: XORRO Prototyping Board fitted in an Amiga X-1000 Nemo Main-Board
Post by: dammy on March 09, 2012, 09:42:43 PM
Quote from: koaftder;683094
Out of curiosity, when you're working with a new micro controller, do you haul off and buy a $3,000 computer that can't run the tool chain?

This thing really is a waste of time, especially considering that the dev kits cost $100.


Just do a package deal with the A1X1K, package it with a nice x86 Windows machine so they can run the tool chain.  Problem solved!