Low Energy Computing for the Masses: Part 2
In my previous post I talked about the main track presentation “Who Ate My Battery” given at FOSDEM 2014 with my colleague Kerstin Eder of Bristol University. That was on the… Read More
Year: 2014
FOSDEM 2014: Taking low energy computing to the masses
Early every February, around five thousand people take over the Free University of Brussels for a weekend for the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting. The attendees at FOSDEM span the whole gamut of society: amateur beginners through… Read More
Integer based sinf and cosf implementation
The transcendental function implementation in Newlib’s libm, like a number of other such software implementations, assumes that the target already has a fast hardware implementation of basic floating point arithmetic in the same or higher precision as that of the… Read More
Energy-efficient computing at FOSDEM 2014
In a little over two weeks FOSDEM will once again be taking place in Brussels, with around 4,000 free and open source software (and hardware!) advocates set to descend upon the city for a weekend of talks, workshops and… Read More