Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard - IETF Ethernet AVB

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:21:46PM +0000, errordeveloper@email-addr-hidden wrote:

> their XS1 chips seem to be really great,
> their are basically every innovative and open-source minded.
> the official toolchain is LLVM-GCC based.
>
> you can use C, C++ or their own XC.
> XC is basically C with some stuff omited (like goto and floats)
> and XMOS IO stuff added, don't just say WTF, look at it first!

It's not just IO stuff added. Their 'C' has parallelism
at the statement level, and this supported directly by
the hardware - no need for such thing as threads supported
by an OS.

The chips are really a re-invention of the INMOS Transputer
of 25 years ago, and the special 'C' language can be traced
back to Occam, the Transputer's native language.

It's an immensely powerful combination, and IMHO years ahead
of anything else on the market - even if the basic ideas go
back at least 30 years.

Ciao,

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