Hector Martin

Both OV1 and KDE1 were disasters, and both became usable by version 3 :-)

Did you realize an XMOS would be perfect for Glasgow as well? You get deterministic, event-driven IO, and you can program it in a C-like language, so no need to mess with RTL. XMOS has excellent USB support as well. You really should use that. It's great!

I don't think "programming in a C-like language" is inherently an advantage (quite the opposite!), but more importantly, while XMOS can probably match HX8K on many tasks, I don't think it can match ECP5

Sorry, that was meant to be ironic: OV1 used XMOS and was quite the disaster. OV3 switched to an FT2232H+FPGA, using migen and python, and was a wonderful universal development platform. XMOS performs great on paper but projects eventually fail for stupid (but valid) reasons.

oh. yeah I've never given XMOS more than a passing look, so I haven't even suspected it was supposed to be sarcastic.

As far as I can tell the sole decent use case for XMOS is USB audio (or maybe other audio). I have a DIY DSP thing running my speakers using an XMOS and it has better latency (0.25ms analog-to-analog, ish) than ~every high-end DSP box you can buy.

That's running 15 biquad EQ filters × 6 channels at 96kHz 32bit internal resolution (24bit codec), on two XMOS chips. Good luck getting that latency on a traditional DSP. But for anything else? Stay far, far, FAR away from XMOS.