XMOS
| XMOS Limited
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| legal form | Holding company |
| founding | July 2005 |
| Seat | Bristol |
| Website | xmos.com |
XMOS is a British semiconductor manufacturer with no manufacturing facilities of its own based in Bristol . XMOS specializes in multi-core processors with hardware-side multithreading for hard real-time systems and DSP applications.
history
XMOS was founded in July 2005 by Ali Dixon, James Foster, Noel Hurley, David May and Hitesh Mehta, with seed capital from Bristol University , among others . The name XMOS is based on Inmos , some basic concepts have already been applied to the transputer .
technology
The processors developed by XMOS contain one or more cores , each of which implements multi-threading on the hardware side. As the only dedicated interface, a switch located on the chip ensures transparent connections between the threads of a core as well as the cores of a processor and various processors. This allows large parallel clusters to be constructed, with packet-oriented communication between threads as well as streaming being possible . Other interfaces are implemented exclusively in software directly on the up to 64 I / O pins, with data rates of up to 100 Mbit / second being achieved (e.g. Ethernet ). The processors can therefore be used in a very versatile manner and are not limited to special applications. A port of the LLVM compiler and the GDB are used to develop software .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ blog.siliconfutures.com ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Inmos: The Inmos Legacy , Dick Selwood, August 2007
- ↑ Electronics: XMOS - the real-time processor ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Special issue Embedded 2012, page 17ff
