Year: 2014

Chip Hack for Teens

Hello, I’m Dan, I spent a weekend at the ‘original’ Chip Hack and have now had two weeks of work experience to convert it into a teen friendly format. Before coming to Embecosm I had an interest in computers but… Read More

GNU Octave and Circuit Simulation

I’m a mathematics graduate and for the past two weeks I’ve been an intern with Embecosm, charged with looking into open source alternatives to Matlab and Simulink, particularly for silicon chip modeling. About GNU Octave GNU Octave is an… Read More

Change logs: Why they still matter

Cray 1 computer core. Let’s hope they had a record of where all those wires were connected! I have often been told that the change log is obsolete; it being suggested that with modern… Read More

Shrimping with #techmums

This Sunday Embecosm in partnership with #techmums, RS Components and Ravensbourne will be hosting a Shrimping workshop in Greenwhich that is purely for mums. We’ve previously run Shrimping workshops with a number of different groups, but… Read More

Migrating git repositories

For the last year or two, many of our customers have requested that that source code for their GNU tool chains is held on GitHub, even though the upstream repositories were in Subversion (GCC) or CVS (everything else). That was not… Read More

Euro-LLVM 2014

Last month we attended the Euro-LLVM meeting, a conference for the LLVM developer community in Europe. We were presenting our poster of our work on the… Read More

Video: The GNU Compiler Collection at Manchester Free Software

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgFr4Jnhff0&w=640] On Tuesday 18th March Jeremy gave a talk at Manchester Free Software, entitled The GNU Compiler Collection: How to Use, Port and Upstream the World’s Most Widely Used Tool Chain. Just over an hour long, the talk explained… Read More