The Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) is a free optimizing standard C compiler targeting various 8-bit architectures. At FOSDEM 2015, I gave talk about SDCC. This guest blog is a quick summary of what has happened since up to the release of SDCC 3.6.0. Read More
RISC-V is an open-source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that was originally developed for teaching and research in computer architecture. It is rapidly moving towards becoming a standard architecture for industry applications, with Version 2.0 of the user-level… Read More
In his keynote at last year’s NMI Industry Summit, Keith Williams, VP Intelligent Systems at Altran, identified open source as one of the four key pillars underpinning future growth of the electronic systems industry in the UK… Read More
If you are a talented software engineer who is passionate about open source and compilers, we should love to hear from you. Embecosm provides services developing free and open source (F/OSS) compilers for companies around the world. The architectures for… Read More
This week is a first for Embecosm. We’ll be exhibiting at Embedded World in Nürnberg, Germany. If you are visiting, come and see us at booth 546D in Hall 4, where we are part of the GREAT… Read More
One of the goals of LLVM is to offer as much GCC compatibility as is feasible. In this way migration from GCC is made easier. But just how compatible are they? From the user perspective, this is primarily… Read More
Notwithstanding the Brussels public transport system, we made it to Day 2 good and early. At 9AM I turned up to hear Carlos Machado speak about Sign Language Free Linguistic Resources. Unfortunately, Carlos did… Read More
FOSDEM 2016 was as huge as usual. Several thousand open source enthusiasts, 600+ talks and, this year, lots and lots of rain. But the quality of the talks more than made up for the weather. Here are… Read More
As keen eyes will have already noticed, this weekend Jeremy, Ed and I will be attending FOSDEM. Like the rest of the team I have attended several of these before, and I will also be presenting some of our… Read More
At the end of this month, Simon, Jeremy and myself will be attending FOSDEM. This will be my second time attending and my first time giving a presentation, and I hope it will be as entertaining as it was… Read More