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  • A short rummage around the Xcore site lead me to The XCore Open Source Project and the Xcore Github repo, which as an open source advocate, I found very encouraging.  I also noted the contributor's agreement  which goes beyond forking Github repos and allows developers to contribute more directly back to the company sources.  I see this as a sign that open source interest at Xcore is rather more substantial than the "throw code over the wall" kind of openness which is unfortunately common.

     

    Which leads me to a couple of questions:

     

    1. Is the impression I've gained above correct?
    2. Are XMOS devices fully documented so that OSHW communities can develop around these devices and create their own complete toolchains to program them?

     

    Question 2 relates to the uncomfortable situation we presently have with FPGA manufacturers, none of which provide complete programming information for their devices so that it has been impossible for the community to develop full toolchains for them.  This has effectively extinguished open source progress in that area.

     

    If the answer is "Yes" to both questions then this is going to be of interest to many.

     

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    Addendum:  I had asked about unit availability earlier too, but the answer was right here at Farnell UK, 6 different devices all in stock!  Excellent!

  • in reply to morgaine

    Are XMOS devices fully documented so that OSHW communities can develop around these devices and create their own complete toolchains to program them?

     

    We do have public documentation for enough stuff (architecture, ABI etc.) to create a toolchain. Have a look at the following projects for more details:

    http://www.xcore.com/projects/gcc-xs1
    http://www.xcore.com/projects/binutils-xs1

  • in reply to xmos_support

    XMOS Support wrote:

     

    Are XMOS devices fully documented so that OSHW communities can develop around these devices and create their own complete toolchains to program them?

     

    We do have public documentation for enough stuff (architecture, ABI etc.) to create a toolchain. Have a look at the following projects for more details:

    http://www.xcore.com/projects/gcc-xs1
    http://www.xcore.com/projects/binutils-xs1

    This is certainly right I managed to re-build most of the tool chain  personally to  run on the original RPI ... as you can imagine the performance sucked rather image !!

    Not  tried it  recently but should work better on the BBB or Odroid.. They did use Eclipse as the IDE and that really needs 1GB or so to be effective image

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