About Embecosm

Embecosm's mission is to provide world-class software engineering that encompasses embedded software development and hardware modeling. We want our customers to have access to the best firmware engineering technology and services, with deep understanding of both the software and the hardware on which it will run.

Dr Jeremy Bennett

Embecosm was founded by Dr Jeremy Bennett, an expert on hardware modeling and embedded software development. Prior to founding Embecosm, Dr Bennett was Vice President of ARC International plc, following their acquisition of Tenison Design, developers of the VTOC tool set for cycle accurate modeling of SoC hardware, where he had been CEO and CTO.

Before moving into industry in the mid-1990's, Dr Bennett pursued academic research into computer architecture, modeling and compiler technology at Cambridge and Bath Universities in the UK. He is author of numerous academic papers as well as the popular textbook "Introduction to Compiling Techniques" (McGraw-Hill 1990, 1995, 2003).

Dr Bennett holds an MA and PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University. He is a Member of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Information Technology Professional.

Jörn Rennecke

Jörn Rennecke is Embecosm's expert on the GNU Compiler Collection. He has been a contributor to the GCC project for the past 14 years and is widely recognized as an expert on GCC back end code generation for embedded processors.

Most recently Jörn has been the lead maintainer and developer for the GCC port for the ARC 600 and ARC 700 processor cores. He was also part of ARC's team contributing to the EU Milepost project. This project added machine learning to GCC, and ARC contributed a port of their ARCompact and SIMD co-processor technology. Previously he was global maintainer for the GCC port to the SH family of processors from their early days with Hitachi and through their development with SuperH and Renesas into what are now the SH4 and SH5 processors.

Mr Rennecke attended the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he studied Computer Science with Mathematics, and the Fachhochschule Wedel, Germany, where he studied Technical Computer Science.