COMPETITION TIME : Win a new xCORE-XA Dev Kit
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 10:47 am
Win a xCORE-XA Dev Kit
Only announced a few days ago, the xCORE-XA Dev Kit is a brand new product from XMOS! We haven't even gotten these out to our sales channels yet but we're going to make one available for a lucky XCore Exchange Community member.
What is the xCORE-XA Dev Kit?
The new Dev kit allows embedded designers to develop, debug and prototype products based on the range of powerful xCORE-XA devices, which combine multiple deterministic 32-bit xCORE logical cores with an ARM Cortex M3 processor in a single device. xCORE-XA can be programmed in C with the exact set of interfaces and peripherals required for any design. In the same design, engineers can re-use existing ARM code and leverage the rich ARM ecosystem, including standard code libraries that can dramatically accelerate product design time.
The xCORE-XA I/O is fully routed to 0.1” pitch header connections, with each set including power, ground and reset, allowing maximum flexibility and easy prototype configuration. Power to the debuggers can be disabled so that the module can be used as part of a target system.
The xCORE-XA device at the heart of the development system is the XS1-XAU8A-10, featuring eight 32-bit processors (seven xCORE logical cores plus an ARM Cortex-M3 processor), 192KB SRAM, and 1024KB of Flash. The device includes a low energy USB interface, ultra low-energy peripherals and analog functions including ADC, DAC, op-amps and capacitive sensing comparators. Like all xCORE-XA devices, the XA-U8-1024 can make use of the wide range of xSOFTip software peripherals from XMOS’s growing library. The xCORE-XA architecture provides flexible energy management modes. It requires less than 1µA of current to run the integrated real-time clock and 32kHz peripherals, for fast turn-on and time-polled operation. In power-down mode, the device will draw less than 100nA and can wake-up from a GPIO or reset input. No other programmable SoC can achieve this level of low-energy performance.
How do I win it?
Due to the extremely limited availability at the moment, we only have 1 xCORE-XA Dev Kit to give away but we like to keep things simple so we're going to run the usual, tried and tested 'Project Idea' competition.
We want to see exciting ideas that will utilize both the xCORE and ARM cores, especially projects which will make for interesting technology demos and require minimal set-up and supervision.
What do i do now?
We recommend you learn as much as you can about the x-CORE XA Dev Kit as possible, here are a couple of resources to get you started:
xCORE-XA webpage
xCORE-XA Dev Kit Product Brief
Then submit your project ideas to this thread. You can submit as many ideas as you like but 'spamming' the same idea will not be allowed. Remember this is not a random selection. A member of the XMOS team will select the winning idea, so posting up 10 (near)identical projects will not increase your chances of being selected as the winner.
The competition will run until Tuesday 28th October and we will announce the winner soon after this date.
Good luck!
Only announced a few days ago, the xCORE-XA Dev Kit is a brand new product from XMOS! We haven't even gotten these out to our sales channels yet but we're going to make one available for a lucky XCore Exchange Community member.
What is the xCORE-XA Dev Kit?
The new Dev kit allows embedded designers to develop, debug and prototype products based on the range of powerful xCORE-XA devices, which combine multiple deterministic 32-bit xCORE logical cores with an ARM Cortex M3 processor in a single device. xCORE-XA can be programmed in C with the exact set of interfaces and peripherals required for any design. In the same design, engineers can re-use existing ARM code and leverage the rich ARM ecosystem, including standard code libraries that can dramatically accelerate product design time.
The xCORE-XA I/O is fully routed to 0.1” pitch header connections, with each set including power, ground and reset, allowing maximum flexibility and easy prototype configuration. Power to the debuggers can be disabled so that the module can be used as part of a target system.
The xCORE-XA device at the heart of the development system is the XS1-XAU8A-10, featuring eight 32-bit processors (seven xCORE logical cores plus an ARM Cortex-M3 processor), 192KB SRAM, and 1024KB of Flash. The device includes a low energy USB interface, ultra low-energy peripherals and analog functions including ADC, DAC, op-amps and capacitive sensing comparators. Like all xCORE-XA devices, the XA-U8-1024 can make use of the wide range of xSOFTip software peripherals from XMOS’s growing library. The xCORE-XA architecture provides flexible energy management modes. It requires less than 1µA of current to run the integrated real-time clock and 32kHz peripherals, for fast turn-on and time-polled operation. In power-down mode, the device will draw less than 100nA and can wake-up from a GPIO or reset input. No other programmable SoC can achieve this level of low-energy performance.
How do I win it?
Due to the extremely limited availability at the moment, we only have 1 xCORE-XA Dev Kit to give away but we like to keep things simple so we're going to run the usual, tried and tested 'Project Idea' competition.
We want to see exciting ideas that will utilize both the xCORE and ARM cores, especially projects which will make for interesting technology demos and require minimal set-up and supervision.
What do i do now?
We recommend you learn as much as you can about the x-CORE XA Dev Kit as possible, here are a couple of resources to get you started:
xCORE-XA webpage
xCORE-XA Dev Kit Product Brief
Then submit your project ideas to this thread. You can submit as many ideas as you like but 'spamming' the same idea will not be allowed. Remember this is not a random selection. A member of the XMOS team will select the winning idea, so posting up 10 (near)identical projects will not increase your chances of being selected as the winner.
The competition will run until Tuesday 28th October and we will announce the winner soon after this date.
Good luck!