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
The patches that I submitted to add 32-bit RISC-V architecture support to Buildroot have recently been committed upstream. As part of this patchset a configuration was added to enable the Buildroot autobuilders so that any potential build… Read More
Introduction So, I’m Mitchell Granger and this winter I had the pleasure of completing my second fortnight of work experience at Embecosm. You may remember if you read the blog, that on my previous visit here I was… Read More
FOSDEM once again provided an exciting weekend with over 8000+ attendees, spread across 47 developer rooms. Embecosm would like to thank everyone at this year’s FOSDEM. If you were not able to attend or would like to see the various… Read More
Once again Embecosm will be presenting at the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) 2019, held in Brussels. This two-day event on the 2-3 February is a free and non-commercial event, to promote the widespread use of free… Read More
Jeremy Bennett and Mark Corbin will be speaking at the BCS Open Source Specialist Group – Machines and Systems of past, present, future event on Thursday 17th January 2019. This event is hosted at The BCS, the Chartered Institute for… Read More
The EBP South Amazing people awards celebrated the dedication of business, school and volunteers to connecting young people to the world of work; young people were awarded for their achievements through the careers and work opportunities that they had participated… Read More
Background I have been working on adding RISC-V 64-bit architecture support to Buildroot. Buildroot is an embedded Linux build system that generates complete system images from source for a wide range of boards and processors. Buildroot uses makefiles… Read More
I recently attended the GNU Tools Cauldron in Manchester, where Roger Espasa from Esperanto Technologies and I ran a BoF session on GCC support for the RISC-V Vector (V) extension. This is an interesting topic, because the V… Read More
My name is Katie Bennett and this summer I had the wonderful opportunity to work for Embecosm in between my A-levels and university. My objective was to create a remote weather station to use as a case study for the… Read More