Xmos, and Silicon Labs are joining forces to enable Xmos to integrate ‘energy friendly ARM’ technology into itds xCORE multicore microcontrollers, which the copany advises is a step towards the next wave in programmable system-on-chip products (SoCs).
This partnership will give Xmos access to Silicon Lab’s EFM32 Gecko – ‘energy-friendly’ ARM Cortex-M3 based MCUs – enabling the company to integrate this technology into its architecture, creating the ‘xCORE-XA (eXtended Architecture) family of products’.
“Working with Silicon Labs has allowed us to combine hardware levels of real-time performance, configurable peripherals from our configurable xCORE multicore microcontroller technology, together with energy efficient ARM Cortex MCU technology from Silicon Labs, to create programmable system-on-chip solution that, allows a programmable technology to support low-energy battery-powered applications,” advises Nigel Toon, XMOS CEO.
“The result of this partnership is a completely new type of programmable system on chip product that combines our energy-friendly technology with a new level of system configuration and performance,” said Geir Forre, Vice President and General Manager of Silicon Labs’ Microcontroller Products.
The new xCORE-XA family of products (also announced today in a separate release) are the first xCORE devices to feature low-energy ARM Cortex-M3 based Gecko MCU technology developed by Energy Micro, recently acquired by Silicon Labs. The new chips allow customers to include ARM binary code within their xCORE designs and give them access to ultra-energy- efficient peripherals and I/O technology.
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