In this series of blog posts we discuss work done to port the COVID-19 Dynamic Causal Model (DCM) to Octave, an open source tool. In other blog posts we discuss an overview of the problem, and the practical… Read More
In a previous blog post, we announced that Embecosm will be hosting two projects for the 2021 Google Summer of Code (GSOC). You can read more about GSOC itself here, details of the application process for students here,… Read More
As part of the GCC organisation, GCC-Rust has been accepted as a mentoring organisation within the Google Summer of Code 2021 framework. This is exciting news for eligible students around the world to add compiler development to… Read More
Embecosm has been working with Southampton University as an industrial partner for it’s MEng final year Group Design Projects. The scope of this project was to create a RISC-V based instruction set extension to accelerate AI and machine learning applications. Read More
In conjunction with the recent announcement of the GNU tool chain implementation of Rust supported by Open Source Security, Inc. and Embecosm we want to outline how the project will move forward. To create a trustworthy compiler… Read More
Here, we discuss an interesting problem: the task of analyzing the respective performance of two compilers to see which one is better. Explicitly, we have two (or more) different compilers that we wish to compare, and we’re trying to quantify… Read More
The global hardware and software community is developing a huge range of RISC-V based solutions. As part of its commitment to that community, Embecosm is making freely available pre-built up-to-date GCC tool chains. This will ensure that software is built with the latest RISC-V compiler features and optimizations. Read More
Introduction I have been exploring the capabilities of the Google Coral development board and working towards a functional face recognition implementation on the embedded device. In a previous blogpost, I discussed an overall view of how the… Read More
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