Hello, I’m Tommy and I spent one week here at Embecosm for my work experience, where I learnt a lot and completed many projects with the immense amount of material I had available to me. I worked along with Peter… Read More
I’m a work experience student who was tasked with using a PID controller and a barometer to control the altitude of a Crazyflie quadcopter. Although I had active control of the upwards forces getting it to go upwards or… Read More
Image © 2007 Alfio Brignoni, CC BY-SA 2.0. Hello, I’m Sam, an A-Level student who currently works part-time at Embecosm as a System Administrator. This week I have been at Embecosm doing work experience, and was tasked… Read More
The LLVM Integrated Tester (aka lit) and LLVM Nightly Test infrastructure (aka lnt) systems are the primary means of testing LLVM tools. Lit is the driver system for… Read More
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
When porting any compiler, one of the large pieces of code is the machine description, defining instructions, registers, calling conventions, etc. In LLVM, this is done via TableGen, a simple record based DSL that allows all information about an architecture to be… Read More
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by TechUK to speak about British innovation at the… Read More
This year Embecosm attended FOSDEM again, in full force. I gave a main track talk onon Superoptimization in the Performance strand, following on from the TSB funded Superoptimization feasibility study. Read More
As part of Embecosm’s community outreach we recently put on a soldering workshop at So Make It, the local Southampton Makerspace. This was to be part of their grand reopening after their recent move to a larger building. In our… Read More
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