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Compiler Engineers Wanted!
If you are a talented software engineer who is passionate about open source compilers, we would love to hear from you.
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PhD Intern Wanted!
If you are a talented PhD student with an interest in compilers and security, we would love to hear from you.
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Goodbye and Thank You: Chip Hack EDSAC Challenge 2017
After many weeks of preparation, Chip Hack and ORConf are over for this year. I had a lot of fun, learned a lot and I am sure all who participated did, too. Chip Hack started early on a rainy Wednesday morning with the setting up of the myStorm board tools. The previous time we ran […]
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Air delay lines for EDSAC
Back in the original EDSAC computer, information was stored in a series of over 30 mercury delay lines all stored in a coffin-like box. These tubes would use the acoustic properties of mercury to reduce reflections. However, to prevent everyone involved with my delay line from going mad from either mercury poison or the large […]
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EDSAC Peripherals Update
Here at Embecosm HQ we’ve been busy finalising the design for all of our peripherals for the FPGA implementation, and re-imagining of the original EDSAC ready for Chip Hack. In this blog post, we’ll take you through what we’ve been doing, and how you too can build some peripherals of your own. There are four […]
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Compiler Engineers Wanted!
If you are a talented software engineer who is passionate about open source and compilers, we would love to hear from you.
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Security-enhancing compilers (video)
SECURE — Security Enhancing Compilation for use in Real Environments — is a 1-year project that is funded by Innovate UK to develop robust, production-ready implementations of security-enhancing compiler techniques. These implementations are being developed in open-source compilers, GCC and LLVM, to enable widespread access the tools for developing secure software.
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ISC 2017
I recently attended ISC 2017 in Frankfurt. Here are my personal highlights from the main conference, as well as the tutorial and workshop days. Main Conference Top500 and Green500 Rankings In the Top500 there was little change to the top ten other than the upgraded Piz Daint system moving from eighth to third place. In […]
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Building a punched tape reader for Chip Hack
Back when the concept of an ‘electronic brain’ was new, the methods for storing information necessary for the running of the computer were primitive. Many early computers used punched paper tape, and EDSAC was no different. EDSAC used five hole wide punched tape which was fed through a tape reader so that it could be […]
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