startKIT Hardware Manual 3/18
2 xCORE Multicore Microcontroller Device
startKIT is based on a two-tile xCORE device (xCORE-Analog A8-DEV). Tile 0 is
dedicated to the integrated debugger and USB PHY. Tile 1 is user-programmable
providing eight logical cores with a total of 500 MIPS compute. All the digital I/O on
Tile 1 have been brought out to pins providing many combinations of peripherals
to be integrated with the startKIT board.
For information on xCORE tiles and cores see the xCORE Architecture Overview1.
The xCORE-Analog A8-DEV device is only available as part of startKIT, and is
therefore not separately documented. If you are using startKIT as a target platform
and need datasheet-level documentation, you may find it useful to review the
XS1-U16A-128-FB217 Datasheet2.
If you are using startKIT as a development platform and intend to run your final
application on a commercially available single tile device, it may be helpful to
review the XS1-A8A-64-FB96 Datasheet3.
Figure 2:
xCORE-
Analog device
and
integrated
debugger
2.1 Integrated debugger
The integrated debugger and associated components are positioned at one end of
the board. The debugger is accessed by the micro-USB connector connected to the
host PC, allowing the xTIMEcomposer tools to interrogate the application running
on the device using the XMOS debugger and the xSCOPE library which provides
non-intrusive program instrumentation.
See the Power connector section §12 and Operating requirements section §13 for
further information on the USB connector.
1http://www.xmos.com/published/xcore-architecture
2http://www.xmos.com/published/xs1-u16a-128-fb217-datasheet
3http://www.xmos.com/published/xs1-a8a-64-fb96-datasheet
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