Xorro is a new slot using an industry standard

Industry Standard

Industry Standard is a 1982 album by The Dregs. It is their only album featuring vocals and garnered the group their fourth Grammy nomination.-Track listing:All tracks are written by Steve Morse, except where noted.#"Assembly Line" – 4:25...

 PCIe x8 form factor

Form factor

Form factor may refer to:*Form factor or emissivity, the proportion of energy transmitted by that object which can be transferred to another object...

 to give access to the 'Xena

XCore XS1

The XCore XS1 is a 32-bit RISC microprocessor architecture designed by XMOS. The architecture is designed to be used for embedded systems, and instruction encoding is compact using 16 bits for frequently used instructions and 32 bits for less frequently used instructions .Almost all instructions...

' IO. This will be the route to Xena's 64 IO lines, which are dynamically configurable as input, output, or bidirectional. 'Xorro' will allow bridging Xena to external hardware

Hardware

Hardware is a general term for equipment such as keys, locks, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, plumbing supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts. Household hardware is typically sold in hardware stores....

 for control purposes, to internal systems, or to other Xcore processors. This last point is worth more exploration; XCore is a parallel processing

Parallel processing

Parallel processing is the ability to carry out multiple operations or tasks simultaneously. The term is used in the contexts of both human cognition, particularly in the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli, and in parallel computing by machines.-Parallel processing by...

architecture, and if you want more power, you can simply chain more XCores together ( XK-XMP-64 Development Board ). Reference boards have been made with up to 256 cores, offering a theoretical 102400 MIPS.