<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi Volker,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>"20 bucks (all American), same as the dev board, what's the problem? (Read the tools notes, you may need 2.)"<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span>Yup, but there is NZ$125 minimum order for free shipping to NZ.using Digikey.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Failing that you can order in US$ and expect to pay US$45 shipping to NZ using </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Digikey.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">... unless
their shipping rules have changed.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div>============</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">In terms of the architecture, it follows in the path of the Transputer, and a parallel C looks quite interesting, if not even a tad cool.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div>============</div><div><br></div><div>The toolchain seems not to be too bothersome in terms of licencing, but as you say may take a while to get up the learning curve.</div><div><br></div><div>One application that they support is
multi-channel audio over USB, along with royalty free Win32 drivers - which does interest me.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent;">-mark</span><br></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Volker Kuhlmann <list0570@paradise.net.nz><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Christchurch Robotics <chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 16 September 2013 8:56 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chbot] multicore uP<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On Mon 16 Sep 2013 06:45:18 NZST +1200, Mark Atherton wrote:<br><br>> <a href="http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/XS1-L12A-128-QF124-C10/880-1053-ND/3906765" target="_blank">http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/XS1-L12A-128-QF124-C10/880-1053-ND/3906765</a><br>> <br>> 12 core, 128k RAM, 1000 MIPS, < US$20, apparently with a free tool-chain<br><br>Digikey only has links to PDFs with more pages than I want to glance<br>over, no toolkit info.<br><br>Their home page says at the bottom "download toolkit", and it's gnu<br>binutils/gdb + eclipse based and multiplatform and one doesn't get the<br>run-around to find that info (beats Microchip). Don't expect "free" to<br>be open source though, they seem to have a proprietory compiler (doesn't<br>beat Microchip), but I'm not sure.<br><br>It's a completely different and let's say proprietory
architecture. If<br>you have a specific purpose for it use it, but I'd expect the learning<br>investment to be high. Don't be too fooled by the MIPS numbers, that'll<br>be all 20 cores added up. Unless you write your program carefully to<br>make use of it you have a lot of unused silicon.<br><br>> Anyone used any of these parts ?<br><br>No, and I'd stick with ARM myself unless I had a very good reason not<br>to.<br><br>> Anyone have an XTAG-2 available for loan ?<br><br>20 bucks (all American), same as the dev board, what's the problem?<br>(Read the tools notes, you may need 2.)<br><br>Volker<br><br>-- <br>Volker Kuhlmann<br><a href="http://volker.dnsalias.net/" target="_blank">http://volker.dnsalias.net/</a> Please do not CC list postings to me.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chchrobotics mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:Chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz"
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