XMOS announced a significant extension to its family of xCORE multicore microcontrollers, with the launch of three new USB-equipped products that address the processing and interfacing needs of a broad range of embedded applications. The new products are the U10-128; U12-128; and the U16-128, which provide 10, 12 and 16 logical cores respectively and deliver up to 1000 MIPS of deterministic parallel compute, along with 128K Bytes of on-chip RAM.
The new devices join the existing xCORE-USB offering, which was announced earlier this year. The entire family takes full advantage of the recently announced xSOFTip range of processing blocks, which include I2S, TDM, SPDIF, and AES/EBU processing. A wide range of audio DSP blocks are also available including filters, equalizers and mixers.
The devices incorporate a High Speed USB 2.0 and unlike other microcontrollers can support 480Mbps data-rates and USB Audio Class 2. This allows the xCORE-USB device family to address a range of demanding applications including audiophile consumer audio, multi-channel USB audio interfaces, DJ products and USB speakers.
Other features include a multichannel 12bit 1MSPS analog to digital converter, standby and deep sleep modes for energy-sensitive applications, power on reset, watchdog timer, brownout detection and integrated oscillator.
xCORE devices are supported by the xTIMEcomposer Studio development tools, which give the designer access to the power of multicore processing in a familiar C/C++ environment. xTIMEcomposer Studio includes static timing analysis and cycle-accurate simulation tools.
The XS1-U8-64 is available now, priced from $6.00 in volume. The XS1-U16-128 is sampling now and available in production quantities in Q1 2013, priced $9.75 in volume. The XS1‑U10-128 and XS1-U12-128 will be sampling in Q1 2013, with pricing starting at $7.60.
