Newark element14 signs global franchise agreement with XMOS

CHICAGO, USA: Newark element14, a leading distributor of technology products and engineering solutions, has announced a new global franchise agreement with XMOS, leaders in multicore microcontrollers, to distribute the XMOS differentiating xCORE architecture.

The unique xCORE technology is a range of flexible, easy-to-use multicore microcontrollers with deterministic response and extremely broad applicability in terms of size of customer, complexity of design and market sectors including audio, automotive, industrial and consumer.

Newark element14's extensive multi-channel marketing capabilities will be leveraged to promote XMOS's differentiating technology, extending and reinforcing an enhanced product offering to the design engineering community globally.

xCORE is XMOS's proprietary microcontroller architecture, providing hardware-type response while being software-programmable like a standard micro. It is very easy to use with a full suite of free design tools that allows anyone who understands C programming access to a completely new level of performance and responsiveness.

Because of this responsiveness, xCORE is also able to implement many functions using software that would require hardware in other architectures, for example a software-based Ethernet or USB interface. These free-of-charge software peripherals allow customers to configure their own custom microcontrollers in software.