Newsletter #1: September 2009

Welcome to Embecosm—home of open source services, tools and models for embedded software development.

Embecosm brings together the open source GNU tool chain and EDA modeling to boost embedded software productivity. Our unique technology allows your firmware engineers to start work earlier, debug faster and deliver robust embedded software reliably on time.

Our open source services, tools and models are the key to successful firmware development:

• Our flagship seamless, unified SoC firmware development and debugging technology provides the same standard environment from initial model to final silicon.
• Our comprehensive GNU tool chain porting and optimization for embedded processors, takes advantage of MilePost machine learning, for optimizing back-ends that can continually improve.
• Our model development is standards based, delivering cycle accurate and transaction level hardware models including OSCI SystemC TLM 2.0 compliance.
• We provide full open source tool support, consultancy, tutorials and training throughout the product life cycle.

The Engineers Behind Embecosm

Embecosm was founded by Dr Jeremy Bennett, an expert on hardware modeling and embedded software development. Prior to founding Embecosm, Dr Bennett was CEO and CTO of Tenison Design, developers of the VTOC tool set for cycle accurate modeling of SoC hardware.

Dr Bennett is author of numerous academic papers as well as the popular textbook "Introduction to Compiling Techniques" (McGraw-Hill 1990, 1995, 2003). He holds a MA and PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University and is a Chartered Engineer.

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 and SIMD co-processor, and was part of ARC's team contributing to the EU MilePost project. 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.

Our Commitment to Open Source

Embecosm is a fully open source company. When we develop something new, we give it back to the community. Visit our download pages for application notes, software packages and articles, for you to freely download and reuse.

We can help you into the world of open source. We provide support and training packages for popular open source embedded and EDA tools. Most important we can help bring your tool chain into mainstream open source distributions, so that your products can have the widest possible exposure to the worldwide engineering community.

Find Out More

There's loads of information on our website website. Take a look, and don't hesitate to get in touch if you'd like to know more.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Jeremy Bennett,
Chief Executive
jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com