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
Hi, I’m Sam Leonard, and I’m going into my second year of A-levels. I’m at Embecosm for a week as a work experience student, working on producing an exploit as a proof of concept for the Stack Erase feature that… Read More
This year Embecosm will be hosting the GNU Tools Cauldron between the 6th and the 9th September in Manchester, UK. Manchester is home of the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), Vimto, Alan Turing statue, Turing’s clock, the suffragettes, multiple football clubs… Read More
The RISC-V workshop in Barcelona starts at lunchtime today, 7 May. I'll be there with my colleagues Graham Markall, Mary Bennett and Ian Loveless. We'll be talking particularly about upstreaming GDB for RISC-V and building CGEN based assemblers and simulators. To mark the occasion, I thought it would be useful to provide a short survey of the free and open source RISC-V ecosystem. Read More