A range of modular development boards along with software for deploying the xCore range of multicore microcontrollers from Xmos in real-time industrial, consumer and automotive applications has been announced.
The company’s sliceKIT consists of a core board powered by a 16-core xCore multicore microcontroller and are equipped with four expansion slots that can be populated with I/O extension cards (or ‘slices’).
This is closely alined with the company’s recently announced xTimecomposer Studio integrated design environment, and xSOFTip soft peripherals. The family and associated design tools make it easier to work on real-time embedded applications using a unified design flow. The devices are configured with xSoftip IP blocks and programmed in C, with real-time extensions.
Based on the company’s 32-bit xCore L2 multicore microcontroller, the kit core board can deliver up to 1000MIPS performance that can be dynamically shared across up to 16 cores. This allows the device to support multiple, concurrent, real-time tasks that are completely deterministic.
The kit incorporates on-board real-time debugging capabilities that allow designers to perform timing-accurate analysis on the performance of their application code.
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