Wolf in sheep’s clothing? – Arduino-format shield goes multicore with Aurix
The board, made by Hitex, is listed by RS for around €110/£80 (here). The blog entry notes that, “[while] the connector arrangement is the same and it works with the Arduino IDE… the processor is running at 200 MHz and hidden inside the LQFP package there are in fact three of them, along with 4 MB of FLASH, 128 kb of data flash and 500 k of RAM.”
The Aurix architecture will already be familiar to many designers, especially if working in the automotive area; this posting gives some ideas of how it can be used to either yield much more processing power than would normally be expected of an Arduino shield; or to act as a first introduction to multi-core programming; or, indeed, both.
RS Online/DesignSpark; www.rs-online.com/designspark/bringing-multicore-to-the-arduino-world-with-shieldbuddy-tc275
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