Re: XMOS XC-1 kits are ****pping

Leon wrote:
> I've just ordered my 1600 MIPS XMOS XC-1 design kit.
> 
> The XMOS chips will replace DSPs and FPGAs in a lot of applications.
> 
> I haven't been so excited about a new chip since the transputer came
> out. David May designed them both, of course.
> 
> Leon
> leon355@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 see the sdk poster lists as one example an "audio synthesizer". I will 
be interested to hear just how sophisticated (or not) that is.  And 
whether it will ever be reasonable to run streaming FFTs on it. And, 
what the running temperature is. The transputer had a sort of problem in 
that if you had a lot of them packed together  (viz. the famous early 
Csound transputer project at Durham university), they sort of melted.

Also interesting that they list the keywords "float" and "double" as 
currently unsup****ted  (which is understandable enough) but also 
"reserved for future use". Wonder how far ahead they are looking.

Richard Dobson