X1000 xmos

[dammy]

It's a low latency, hardware-threaded IO processor, not an FPGA.

It's got what, 64K of RAM per core?

[dammy]

Here's a whitepaper about XMOS
https://www.xmos.com/download/public/XMOS-Technology-Whitepaper%281.0%29.pdf

Here's a language reference guide
https://www.xmos.com/download/public/XC-Programming-Guide%28X1009C%29.pdf

 and here's some projects thyat other people have designed for it
https://www.xcore.com/projects

XMOS is far from useless, but it's not the same kind of thing as FPGA.  in FPGA, you use VHDL to design and connect logic gates.

XC, on the other hand, is similar to C, but it has easier ways to set up parallel threads and access I/O.

I'm not an expert.  I've just been doing a little research in preparation for getting my new X1000.  I'd like to put an FPGA card in it too.  I can think of lots of uses for FPGA, but I'm still looking for an application that can use the massive parallelism that XMOS provides.

It's a controller, end of story.  If you want to create a system that gives it full control over your house lights, this might be a key component.  I can think of cheaper solutions then a $3K computer to do that type of work.  The only reason I can possibly think on why someone would bolt this on a computer would be as a marketing ploy that sounds great but meaningless to the end user.