See you at Embedded World
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
Author: Jeremy Bennett
How similar are GCC and LLVM: The user perspective
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
FOSDEM 2016 Day 2: More talks that made me think
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 Day 1: Talks that made me think
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
How to Start Your Own Open Source Business
Many of you reading this post will have attended the one day Open for Business conference that was hosted as part of the Wuthering Bytes festival at the end of September. We recorded (almost)… Read More
Open for Business: Making Money from Free and Open Source Software and Hardware
To those familiar with traditional business models, Embecosm is something of a mystery. A team of very highly paid engineers using expensive equipment to write immensely complex software, which we then give away for free. Yet despite this, we are… Read More
AAP: A reference Harvard architecture for embedded compiler development
An Altruistic Processor (AAP) is an architecture specification designed for experimenting with compiler back end implementation. In particular it has features that are common within small deeply embedded systems. It is also designed to be easy to use in demonstrations… Read More
British Innovation at Embedded World
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by TechUK to speak about British innovation at the… Read More
The next generation of engineers: another way to encourage them
As I have written before, we face a challenge maintaining British excellence in computer engineering. It is an industry where we excel, but last summer the BBC reported that we face a… Read More
Embecosm’s James Pallister wins NMI Young Engineer of the Year
Our very own James Pallister was last night announced as the winner of the NMI Young Engineer of the Year award. James is a Research Engineer and Technical Advisor to Embecosm, and also a PhD research student at Bristol University,… Read More