XMOS are giving away one of their newest products, an xCORE-XA Dev Board.
On our community forum, you just have to enter a project idea that would utilise both the onboard xCORE and ARM chips. View the forum thread here:
https://www.xcore.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3041
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.
The competition runs until the 28th October. You can enter or view more information by visiting the forum post :
https://www.xcore.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3041
Good luck
David
XMOS