AlienCortex AV
multicore softprocessor development platform
AlienCortex AV - a multicore Arduino-compatible platform with graphics and sound capability.
AlienCortex AV has already been designed, and the final series of prototypes have been built and verified. This Kickstarter project is to fund the next stage... the first manufacturing run.
Should this project be successfully funded, those who back this project at the $147 reward level (or more) will receive an AlienCortex AV from the initial production run.
About AlienCortex AVWhat makes AlienCortex-AV quite different from other development boards is that it doesn't use a traditional micro-controller. Instead, the 208-pin chip at the heart of AlienCortex is a Xilinx Spartan 3e 500K FPGA.
The Cores:The cores that will be included as part of Core Pack 1.0 are:
Alien Xtreme-G:A dual processor Arduino sketch-compatible core with Gameduino-compatible graphics and sound
Alien Xtreme-R: A quad processor Arduino-sketch compatible core
Alien Song:An 8 note polyphonic digital synthesizer and drum sample playback engine under the control of an Arduino-sketch/AVR compatible core
Alien 4:30 :A single core soft-processor emulation of the MSP430 micro-controller
Alien Autopsy:A 32 channel 100MHz Logic Analyzer