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Inmos and the transputer morphed into xmos[1] - same basic ideas (the David May[2] connection) but refined, and the programmable gpio is pretty nice - seriously
by spacedcowboy 6y ago
Inmos and the transputer morphed into xmos[1] - same basic ideas (the David May[2] connection) but refined, and the programmable gpio is pretty nice - seriously there aren’t many chips where you write your SDRAM controller in software...
[1] https://www.xmos.ai/ https://www.xmos.ai/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_May_(computer_scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_May_(computer_scientist)
- klelatti 6y agoInteresting! I used a piece of (financial services) software that used Transputers in the 1990. Today the equivalent software would run on GPUs. Do you know how commercially successful Xmos is?
- frostburg 6y agoI don't know but I have a portable dac from iFi that uses a XMOS processor for some operations. They warn against flashing firmware meant for other XMOS-based dacs, so it must have a certain market share in the segment.
- spacedcowboy 6y agoThey’re doing pretty well in audio, iirc. I tend to use FPGAs for most of the things I’d use an xmos for, but I’m probably not their market. If you want a microcontroller with guaranteed low latency input/output, they’re pretty neat, and the links between chips can be very useful.
- klelatti 6y agoThanks!