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Omniscient Electronics showcasing XMOS Technology in Bangalore Sep 7th - 11th 2010
jason

Just a quick update to let anyone who is over in Bangalore that XMOS will be showcased by Omniscient Electronics at the Electronica show between September 7th to 11th 2010. I believe the booth number is 2215.

For more details on the Electronica show, please see: http://bit.ly/auH5R2

Hope to see some of you there!

jason
02/09/2010 - 16:16
Project Of The Month Winner - September - Nokia 6100 Display Driver by Bianco
jason

Congratulations to Bianco who is this months POTM winner for his Nokia 6100 Display Driver project and will receive $100 of XMOS goodies for his efforts!

A quote from Bianco's project is as follows:

"Introduction
This is a driver for the Nokia 6100 (knockoff) Display with NXP PCF8833 controller.
This display has 130x130 pixels with 12bpp (4096 colors) and uses a 9 bit SPI interface.
This driver supports only 12bpp (the controller supports also 8bpp and 16bpp).

Controller compatibility
The Nokia 6100 (knockoff) display comes with two different controller which are not fully compatible with each other: NXP PCF8833 and Epson S1D15G10. A possible way to distinguish them is that displays with the NXP controller likely have a brown flexible PCB and Epson a green flexible PCB.

Driver functionality

* Draw pixel
* Draw line
* Draw and fill rectangle
* Draw circle (no filling!)
* Draw character
* Draw string
* Draw image using a raw image buffer"

Discuss this project in our forums now!

jason
01/09/2010 - 09:06
XMOS Joins AVnu Alliance to aid growth of networked audio and video
jason

XMOS® today announced it has joined the AVnu Alliance, an industry forum dedicated to the advancement of professional-quality audio video and increased hardware and software support for the IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging protocol.

The alliance and XMOS share a commitment to high-quality audio; AVnu Alliance strives to ensure AVB interoperability of networked A/V devices, helping to provide the highest quality streaming A/V experience. The alliance promotes Audio Video Bridging (AVB) and the related IEEE 1722 and 1733 standards over various networking link-layers, and XMOS provides a flexible AVB solution to its customers for development on XMOS processors.

Read more here: http://bit.ly/AVnuAlliance and discuss in our forum here.

jason
10/08/2010 - 10:56
New XMOS Desktop Tools release: 10.4.1
jason

On Friday a new version of the XMOS Desktop Tools has been released: version 10.4.1.

Release notes are as follows:

Debugger:
- Fixed XTAG-2 issue with MacBook/MacBook Pro
- Fixed XTAG-2 driver installation on Windows 7 64-bit

So upgrade to the latest version here!

jason
09/08/2010 - 08:39

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