$15M in an investment round lead by Infineon. It also has strategic investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, Huawei Technologies, and Xilinx Inc. In the autumn of 2006, XMOS secured funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, DFJ Esprit, and Foundation Capital. Some concepts found in XMOS technology (such as channels and threads) are part of the Transputer legacy. The name XMOS is a loose reference to Inmos. It received seed funding from the University of Bristol enterprise fund, and Wyvern seed fund. XMOS was founded in July 2005 by Ali Dixon, James Foster, Noel Hurley, David May, and Hitesh Mehta. XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company that develops audio products and multicore microcontrollers. The result is a custom chip and associated application code that exactly meets the needs of the target system.Voice controllers, Multicore microcontrollers, xCore, xCORE-200, xCORE-AUDIO, xCORE-VOICE, xCORE VocalFusion, xTIMEcomposer The designer configures the xCORE device using xSOFTip IP blocks to add the specific set of interfaces and creates application code in C or C++, with real-time extensions, via the same flow. XTIMEcomposer and xSOFTip allow developers to build real-time embedded applications within a unified design flow. A GUI-based tool called xSOFTip Explorer allows developers to easily browse blocks and configure xCORE devices with any combination of interfaces and peripherals they need. The xTIMEcomposer includes xSOFTip, a comprehensive library of soft peripheral IP and processing blocks that can be used to configure xCORE multicore microcontrollers. Users can observe the behaviour of their code and I/Os in real-time while the system is running on the xCORE device and in their system.Īccording to the company xTIMEcomposer is the industry’s only fully featured development environment that supports all three common operating system platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOS) and is available free-of-charge. The xCORE multicore microcontroller platform delivers completely deterministic performance, giving developers the capabilities of a hardware-RTOS (real time operating system) that supports nano-second timings.Īs part of this new release, the capabilities of the xSCOPE real-time code instrumentation tool have been significantly improved. XTIMEcomposer Studio also allows customers to define very accurate timings for their tasks and for I/Os. This allows engineers to benefit from the much higher performance that is available from the xCORE multicore microcontroller products but makes it easy to develop and ensures that the design is completely safe in operation. Advanced compiler capabilities ensure that pointers are handled safely across these separate tasks.Ĭustomers can take existing C/C++ code and easily recompile for the multicore xCORE devices. Alternatively tasks can be combined on single cores for efficient use of processing resources. The new xTIMEcomposer Studio tools support simple extensions to standard C that allow developers to easily describe separate tasks and then to run these in parallel on separate logical cores within the xCORE device. You can simply recompile your existing C code for use on xCORE.” Unlike traditional MCU makers, XMOS is able to offer a complete professional development toolset free-of-charge. “But now, thanks to xTIMEcomposer, it has never been easier for users of conventional MCUs to move to multicore technology. “In the past writing ANSI standard C for multicore systems was challenging,” said Nigel Toon, XMOS CEO. Available as a free-of-charge beta version for download from the XMOS website, the new tools give every engineer familiar with C programming access to the power and flexibility of multicore technology in developing embedded systems. The new integrated development environment (IDE) includes everything that is required for embedded design in a single Eclipse-based environment including an editor, LLVM compiler, debugger, XTA static timing analyzer, simulator, xSCOPE real-time code instrumentation tool and flash burning tools. XMOS has unveiled the latest version of the xTIMEcomposer Studio development suite for its xCORE multicore microcontrollers.
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