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14 August 2013

Prepared for Parallella

On July 21st Embecosm ran its Preparing for Parallella event where Kickstarter backers and those interested in the project or with a general interest in multicore parallel systems were invited to have a crash course in the theory of parallel computation and how to construct real programs using the Epiphany Multicore eSDK…

29 July 2013

GNU Tools Cauldron: a Cool Meeting

This year the GNU Tools Cauldron was hosted by Google at their California headquarters and the Embecosm team were there in strength. While a cauldron typically implies heat, this was in many ways very much a cool place to be: the talks were leading edge, the venue had great facilities, and the temperature was much more pleasant than back in the UK

16 July 2013

Arduino Face Detection Using Shrimping.it

Hola, I’m Adam, and I spent a week as a work experience student at Embecosm, attempting to build a face-tracking webcam. Before coming to Embecosm I had no experience of electronics, and my software experience was with Python and scripting languages like AutoIt. Starting I started by building a simple circuit on an Arduino, a small program […]

4 July 2013

RSA FutureMaker: The future of making things

A couple of weeks ago, the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) held its own festival for all those involved in making things. Simon Cook and I went along to promote the activities of the UK Open Source Hardware User Group (OSHUG), alongside Andrew Back, who was demonstrating the open source electronics collaboration platform, SolderPad. The […]

26 June 2013

Preparing for Parallella, Sunday 21st July 2013, Bletchley (UK)

With thousands of Parallella boards due to go out to Kickstarter backers within the next few months, Embecosm has decided to host an event which prepares programmers for developing for the platform. We’re incredibly honoured and excited to announce that Iann Barron, co-founder of Inmos and designer of the transputer, will be giving the keynote […]

17 June 2013

Benchmarking Energy Consumption

Benchmarking is important in the embedded world, where we need to know whether applications will meet their real-time constraints, how much resources they use and power they consume. For my work on the energy consumption of compiler options, I constructed a set of benchmarks that had certain desirable characteristics for measuring energy consumption

11 June 2013

The Open Invention Network: Protecting free software.

I am not a fan of patents. I see companies of all sizes racing to patent new ideas, not because they particularly want or need to, but to give them a bulwark against law suits from other patent holders. In many cases a diversionary effort that in a better world could be devoted to core […]

31 May 2013

RSA FutureMaker

The Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, together with the Comino Foundation, are hosting a day-long interactive showcase and celebration of making at London’s historic Somerset House on Wednesday 19th June.

Dr Jeremy Bennett will be giving a talk at midday, entitled Open Source Hardware: How freely available designs drive education, innovation and industrial progress.

7 May 2013

Energy-efficient Superoptimization

This blog post introduces the project I will be working on during an internship with Embecosm. The internship is supported by HiPEAC, an organisation with a key aim of promoting collaboration between industry and academia. This project will look at how we can take advantage of intelligent compilation techniques to improve the energy consumption of […]