Xcore86 Development Corner
This section is a place for hardware and software developers to come and share information on the Xcore86 "Device on Chip".
The Xcore86 is a complete "Device on Chip". The first generation Xcore86 consumes less than 2 watts of power. The Xcore86 is designed to be a bridge between typically more powerful and less energy efficient computers and the RISC based System on Chips (Soc) found in many of today's portable devices. Today, there are over three billion devices sold a year with some sort of processor while less than 400 million of these are traditional x86 computers. Today, most smart phones, GPS, and PDAs, use energy efficient RISC based CPUs. These CPUs are low cost and energy efficient but they do not run Microsoft Windows and do not support popular free x86 based Linux distributions. Even more important, many of today's most popular add-ons for browsers require an x86 binary. These include Adobe reader, Adobe Flash, and many popular applications such as Skype and various messengers.
The Xcore86 is available as a single CPU or on a module we call Device on Module. This website is available to bring the Xcore86 "Device on Chip" community together and provide a starting point to share software, hardware and other ideas for the Xcore86.
