Amiga One X 1000 and Xena/Xorro

[persia]

You can buy an XMOS board and play with it on a PC or Mac.  There are lot's of projects out there:  http://www.xcore.com/projects

[persia]

Just curious why would a home hobbyist use a CNC rather than a 3D printer?

[persia]

The question is not really whether XMOS is useful, clearly with the number of projects out there it is.  But all these applications are pretty much stand alone applications.  I can go out and buy a US$ 100 USB 2.0 program board and do that from a PC or Mac.

The real question is what advantage does connecting XMOS directly to the motherboard of the AmigaOne bring?

[persia]

Given the complete lack of ideas as to what to do with the two systems joined at the hip it appears that someone just thought it would be neat.  Everything I can come up with is better done on a PC with a US$99 USB programming board.  It's sort of like chocolate milk and chicken soup, great things separately but combining them doesn't make them better.

[persia]

Is there a decent touch interface for OS4?

Has anyone suggested that they it might be useful for a business environment?
The classic kiosk system. I assume the Sam Amiga was used as a kiosk system somewhere.

[persia]

XMOS simplifies High Speed USB Audio design

0 Comments  
March 19th, 2012
The highest performance, integrated solution

XMOS®, developer of the industry’s first event-driven 32-bit embedded processor, announces the release of its third generation family. The XS1-S family delivers up to 700 MIPS of real-time performance per core combined with integrated analog functionality, enabling the highest quality, multi-channel USB audio applications. Combined with XMOS industry standard USB audio IP, the XS1-S family of devices deliver the lowest latency digital audio interfaces.

“The XS1-S Family builds upon the predictable real-time performance of the XS1 architecture, offering increased I/O and processing capabilities together with the convenience of integrated analog peripherals.” said Tom Lee, XMOS vice president of sales and marketing. “Our customers have shipped over half a million USB audio products using XS1 devices. The higher performance, integrated XS1-S Family and its accompanying software and tools deliver the ideal solution to an even broader range of audio applications”.

The XS1-S Family of single and dual core devices include a rich set of analog and digital features:

32bit XCore embedded processor(s) delivering up to 700 MIPS each
Software defined I/O for fully-flexible digital peripherals including I2S, TDM, SPDIF AES/EBU.
High Speed USB 2.0 Phy
12bit 1MSPS Analog to Digital Converter
USB bus power compatible
Standby and deep sleep modes for energy sensitive applications
Power On Reset, Watchdog timer, brownout detect circuits
On-chip crystal oscillator
High Speed USB Audio

The first members of the XS1-S Family include single and dual XCore variants with integrated USB 2.0 High Speed Phy, making them ideal for demanding USB audio interfaces, DJ products, USB speakers and more. Using XMOS unique flexibility, the devices are also perfect for intelligent USB peripherals.

Niall Dunican of Audio Partnership commented “The new XS1-S devices from XMOS provide us with a lot of exciting opportunities. The integrated ADC and high speed USB let us use the devices as both a flexible micro and a high speed audio interface device, at low cost. We’re already planning to deliver 4 products in 2012 based on the new XMOS processors. With 700MIPS of deterministic performance we have a lot of ideas!”

XMOS processors combine flexible interfacing, control and data processing in a single device. The devices, including all digital peripherals, are programmed in software using a C-language development flow, providing both application and I/O flexibility even after deployment.

Pricing and Availability

The single XCore processor XS1-SU1 with integrated High-Speed USB Phy comes in a 96pin dual row BGA and is priced below $5 in 10ku quantities. Sampling now, the XS1-SU1 will be commercially available from Q2. The dual XCore XS1-SU2 device will be sampling from Q3 2012. Further details are available from your XMOS sales representative: http://www.xmos.com/products/distributors.

For more information on XMOS products including development kits and software, visit http://www.xmos.com. The XMOS development tools are available to download free of charge at http://www.xmos.com/tools.

About XMOS

XMOS is transforming the way in which electronic products are designed, reducing development time and cost. Its event-driven deterministic processors enable systems to combine application software, digital signal processing and peripherals implemented in software, not silicon. XMOS customers include leading companies around the world. For more information please visit http://www.xmos.com

http://eecatalog.com/usb/2012/03/19/xmos-simplifies-high-speed-usb-audio-design/

[persia]

The XMOS startkit is only usable from xTIMEcomposer, which has no PPC support and likely never will. If we want cool toys, we'll have to blaze our own trail.

Fun Talk, I'm out for the day.

Or use the fun toys on supported systems.....

[persia]

@persia

this post has been deleted for violating our posting guidelines and site policies, specifically:

1. no trolling
2. no off-topic flame bait

this is the only warning that will be given. do it again and you'll earn yourself a vacation from the site.

-- eliyahu