XMOS demonstrate multicore capabilities of Software Defined Silicon at Embedded World

The first of a new breed of programmable silicon device, the XS1-G4 offers designers the means to unify hardware and software worlds into a single environment, by virtue of its XCore event driven multi-threaded processors and companion C-based programming language XC.



With four 32-bit XCore processors providing 1600MIPs and supporting up to 32 concurrent, deterministic real-time tasks, the XS1-G4 is well suited to audio applications requiring a mix of audio enhancement, sample rate conversion, encode/decode and regular control and interface capabilities. XMOS will demonstrate its chip in Ethernet AVB and USB 2.0 High Speed applications.



Providing more than enough performance for controlling fine pitch matrix display tiles, the XS1-G4 chip will also be shown in a video wall application delivering a range of functions including filtering, monitoring, colour compensation and LED driver interfacing. Since large display systems are usually built from multiple modular tiles, XMOS will explain how its chip’s Ethernet connectivity makes it easy to build highly scalable LED walls.