Our very own Mary Bennett was last night announced as one of the winners of the TechWorks UKESF Scholar of the Year award. Mary is a software tool chain engineer at Embecosm, a masters student at the University of Surrey… Read More
Introduction One of the currently proposed draft ISA extensions for RISC-V is the Bit Manipulation Instructions extension (from henceonwards referred to as the “Bitmanip” or “BMI” extension.) It proposes to provide fast and direct instructions for commonly-used bitwise operations, often… Read More
Introduction The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual describes the current status of the RISC-V ISA and its extensions. Among these there’s a mention of the ‘B’ extension that is meant to host specific instructions for bit… Read More
Introduction In this blog post we give an introduction to the topic of facial recognition and describe our approach to the problem introduced in the previous blog post. When deciding to implement facial recognition, FaceNet was the first thing… Read More
What is RI5CY? RI5CY is a 4-stage in-order pipelined RISC-V core written in SystemVerilog. It has become very popular for many applications, including being adopted as the first Core-V core in the OpenHW Group family, as… Read More
Introduction My name is Pietra Ferreira Tadeu Madio and I’m an AI Research Engineer working at Embecosm. During the summer I was able to start working full-time on my own AI-driven project. Artificial intelligence is typically associated with high power… Read More
Project requirements When I arrived at Embecosm, on the first day of my work experience, I was offered a real-world project at a local church, which is being used as a nursery for toddlers. There had been noise complaints surrounding… Read More
The Project For my work experience with Embecosm, I was given a real-life project by Rev. Peter Salisbury, the vicar of St Thomas’ church in Lymington. The project was to measure the accuracy of the church clock and pendulum, by… Read More
As an embedded systems and open source software services provider, with specialist world class engineering capability in commercial grade Compiler Tool Chain and a full breadth of OS, Machine Learning and AI sectors, we recognise the inter-connected world we live… Read More
The Open HW Group, a not-for-profit organisation was announced earlier this week with the aim to boost the adoption of open source processors. Embecosm is in the vanguard of this initiative as one of the sponsoring organisations. As a specialist… Read More